Project Software Engineer

Ajit Apte

*** *********** ***. ***. **** Phone: 650-***-****

Mountain View, CA 94040 Email: ***********@*****.***

EDUCATION

Aug 2005 - Dec 2006

Master of Science, Computer Engineering

University of Florida, Gainesville

GPA: 3.94

Sep 2001 - June 2005

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), Pune, India

GPA: 3.93

HIGHLIGHTS

Experience with Agile software development.

Experience using several open source technologies and open API.

24x7 production on-call support experience, ability to deliver under hard time constraints and

quickly changing requirements.

SKILL SET

Programming languages : Java, Python, C, C++

Web development technologies : GWT, AJAX, UiBinder, JSP-EL, WebWork

Database technologies : MySQL

Testing technologies: JUnit, EasyMock, Selenium, Firebug

Package management : MPM, RPM 4.2, YUM 2.0.7

Source code control : Perforce, Git

Other open technologies: Hibernate ORM, Guice Dependency Injection, BigTable, GFS, Protocol

Buffers, Google App Engine, Google Code Hosting, Yahoo! Geocode API, Yahoo! Weather API,

Google Maps API, http://bit.ly URL shortening API

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mar 2007 - Present

Google Inc., Software Engineer

Designed and developed ROMA, a one-stop-shop portal for project resource/machine allocations,

capacity, budget data and visualizations. This is the front-end to Google s automated resource

fulfillment pipeline that saves Google thousands of man hours and millions of dollars annually.

24x7 production on-call support for the Machines Database (MDB) - a mission-critical database that

is the canonical source of data about users, groups, the machine fleet and ACLs to all of Google s

production services.

Technologies: Java, GWT, AJAX, UiBinder, JSP-EL, WebWork, Hibernate, Guice dependency

injection, JUnit, EasyMock, Selenium, Protocol Buffers, BigTable, GFS

Jun 2006 - Aug 2006

VMware Inc., Member of Technical Staff Intern

Worked with the ESX server group, revamped their upgrade procedure from a tarball-based

monolithic script to a modularized and atomic mechanism supporting NFS/HTTP/FTP/local FS

rpm-based yum repositories.

Technologies: Python, RPM 4.2, YUM 2.0.7

Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

UltraLight Project (NSF - funded), Research Assistant

Advisor: Dr. Alan George, Director, HCS lab, ECE department

Find optimal storage server solution, for bulk file transfers, over 10 GigE networks. The

alternatives being explored are single-server as well as multiple-server configurations.

Provide system parameters for the local storage service, and provide a resource broker interface

To optimally and dynamically schedule global file transfers.

Represented UF at the UltraLight Conference at Caltech, Pasadena, October 2005

Oct 2005 Dec 2005

Graduate Research Assistant, ENDyne project (NSF - funded)

Advisor: Dr. Erik Deumens, Quantum Physics, Physics department

Helped build a graphing application for representing various dynamic characteristics (e.g.

interatomic charge, differential cross sections, trajectories etc.) of chemical reactions

Technologies: C, C++, CGI/1.1 using Perl

Jun 2004 - Jun 2005

Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India, Project Intern

Generic Application Layer Gateway

Supported IPv6/IPv4 environments, TCP/UDP services

Supported application Layer protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, NTS etc

Built a Session Layer Authentication Protocol, using challenge response mechanism

Represented PICT at IIT Techfest 2005.

Technologies: C, BSD socket library on UNIX platform. team size: 3

OTHER PROJECTS

Nov 2009

Climely, weather chatbot

Given a US Zip code or a place, returns with a summary of the weather conditions and links to a detailed

weather report. Works over XMPP.

Usage: Add *******@*******.*** as a chat buddy to avail this service.

Source code: http://code.google.com/p/climely/source/browse/#svn/trunk

Technologies: Python, Google App Engine, Google Code Hosting, Yahoo! Geocode API, Yahoo!

Weather API, http://bit.ly URL shortening API.

Jan 2006 May 2006

SASA a metasearch engine

Guide: Dr. Sanjay Ranka, Data Mining class

Constructed in a team of 4, a complete metasearch engine, including a polished GUI, 6 different

page re-ranking algorithms. Results were better than Google for queries from our domain

Aug 2005 Dec 2005

Independent Research, Green Internet Project (NSF-funded)

Advisor: Dr. Alan George, Director, HCS lab, ECE department

Investigated a novel Dynamic Adaptive Link Rate mechanism, i.e. dynamically altering the link

rate in Ethernet, to save power consumption in prototype NICs.

Technologies: C, MATLAB (graphs)

AWARDS

Part of the team receiving the Outstanding Contributions (EMG) award at Google, reserved for a

handful of teams every year.

Numerous spot bonuses and peer bonuses at Google in recognition of outstanding contributions

Consistently ranked within the first 10 among 15000 students in the Pune University merit list for

baccalaureate studies (Sep 2001 Jun 2005)

Secured 21st Rank at the Junior Mathematical National Olympiad, India (Dec 1998)

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