Project Computer Science

Shakir Sharfraz

Address: C*, Shakti Towers, ** Achutan Nagar, Eekaatuthangal, Chennai, India

Telephone: +91-984*******

Email: ****.***@*****.***

Senior Management Professional

Software Development Data Scientist Large Data Management & Analysis Project

Management

5 years of experience in coordinating with global team and ownership of global projects

SYNOPSIS

Innovative and results driven leader focused on achieving profitable outcomes in highly

competitive environment. A Master of Science in Computer Science; presently associated

with Bloomberg L.P, New York as Financial Software Developer. Leadership and management

experience with an outstanding track record of coordinating, leading and managing projects

and delivery within time and budget. Dedicated individual with good interpersonal and

communication skills with the ability to work at all technical levels of the organization.

Have the ability to deliver quality work in a high pressure environment with hard

deadlines, willingness to work hard and being a team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms : UNIX/Linux/Solaris, Windows

Languages : C/C++, Python, SQL, LISP

Scripting Tools : JavaScript

Libraries : Boost, STL, libxml, armadillo, libsvm, lapack, blapack, blas

Version Control : ClearCase, Subversion

Packages : Matlab, R

Tools : Wireshark

IDE : Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse

C/C++ programming experience, comfortable with systems programming and background in

Machine Learning/Data Analysis.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Bloomberg L.P, New York, NY (Feb 2011Jan 2012)

Financial Software Developer

Notable Milestones

Designed and implemented real-time feeds that handle breaking-news feeds and index

tickers (using C++/Python, STL and Boost).

Provided solutions in a multi-threaded UNIX/Solaris based system capable of handling

huge volumes in real-time, which use redundancies to maximize availability.

Built parsers/web scrapers from scratch which make heavy use of XML libraries, sockets

and threads.

Took ownership of projects and worked closely with business, sales, content, backend

and customers to deliver timely solutions.

Bloomberg L.P, New York, NY (May 2010Aug 2010)

Financial Software Developer Intern

Notable Milestones

Designed and implemented a capacity management system for data feeds that identifies

machines that may be overloaded or possible candidates for updates.

Identified correlation between peaks in Volatility Index (VIX) and peaks in system

usage through analysis of CPU utilization, disk usage and data flow rate in the system.

Designed an automated headline generation system from interest rate reports released by

the central banks using machine learning techniques.

Fundamental Algorithmic & Statistical Tools Lab, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA (Aug 2009Dec 2010

)

Graduate Research Assistant

Notable Milestones

Designed and maintained fastlib/mlpack, an open source machine learning library.

Improved the compatibility and performance of the library by using Boost library.

Starent Networks, Diameter Team, Bangalore, India (Jul 2007- Jul 2009)

Member of Technical Staff

Notable Milestones

Designed failover and session recovery mechanisms for subscriber sessions in case of

transport layer failures and system crash.

Developed subscriber and device authentication mechanism for Fixed Mobile Convergence

(FMC) in a security gateway that switches a mobile from CDMA network to Wi-Fi.

Developed offline charging support for WiMax/WiBro networks.

Designed and developed an implementation of the accounting interface for SIP/IMS based

architectures and LTE/SAE networks.

EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Master of Science

in Computer Science, Dec 2010 - 3.41/4.0

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Guindy - ANNA UNIVERSITY,

India

Bachelor of Engineering

in Computer Science & Engineering, May 2007 - 8.275/10.0

PUBLICATIONS

"Mobile Ad Hoc Grid using Trace Based Mobility model" was presented in Grid and

Pervasive Computing 2007 Conference (GPC 2007) in Paris. Published in LNCS (Lecture Notes

in Computer Science).

"Backbone based routing with Adaptive MAC in HMANETs" was presented in High Performance

and Computing Conference 2006 (HiPC 2006) held at Bangalore, India.

PROJECTS

Masters Project, Georgia Institute of Technology

Project : Visualizing document similarity using density preserving maps

Period : Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

Description : Using Density preserving maps to find an information preserving

transformation from a high dimensional manifold on which the documents reside. Through

this method visualization is produced in which research papers having common keywords and

having common authors are clustered together.

Special Project, Georgia Institute of Technology

Project : Research Search Engine

Period : Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

Description : Implemented a noun phrase chunking component for a search engine customized

for searching research papers.

Advanced Operating Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology

Project : Credit-based Scheduler for User Threads

Period : Aug 2010

Description : Designed and implemented credit based scheduling for GTThreads a user

threads package for the Linux kernel

Computing for Good, Georgia Institute of Technology

Project : Mental Health Assessment Program in Liberia

Period : Aug 2010 Dec 2010

Description : Designed an Android application that uses decision tree model to assess the

mental health of patients in Liberia.

Computer Networks, College of Engineering, Guindy

Project : Backbone based routing for heterogeneous ad hoc networks

Period : Jan 2007 May 2007

Description : Designed and implemented a routing protocol which is optimized for a

network with heterogeneous devices.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 1

May 1986.

Languages Known: English and Hindi.

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