Engineer Service

Prashray Rawal

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Los Angeles, CA 90007

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Master of Science, Computer Science (GPA: 3.57/4.00) Dec 2012

Education

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering (GPA: 3.9/4.0) Jul 2011

Gujarat University, Gujarat, India

Algorithms, Computer Networks, Arti cial Intelligence, Operating Systems, Database Sys-

Graduate

tems, Directed Research at USC ICT, Security Systems, Database Systems Interoperability.

Coursework

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Seattle, WA Summer 2012

Work

Software Development Engineer Intern

Experience

Developed an internal web service in Java for the AWS Platform team that processes

batches of usage records.

The web service takes a streaming payload of usage records from the user, performs au-

thentication and authorization, validates the records and uploads them to Amazon S3.

The web service processes around 2 billion records per day.

Security Systems Lab Fall 2012

Academic

Projects Performed hands on labs on Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization, Application Se-

curity, Packet Sni ng, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, ARP Spoo ng, Tunnels & VPNs and

Computer Forensics.

NACHOS Extension (C, C++) Spring 2012

Added Multithreading, System calls, Multiprogramming, Remote Procedure Calls for Dis-

tributed applications, Networking and Virtual Memory Support to NACHOS.

Wii Calibration Tool and Game (C#, Unity Game Engine) Spring 2012

Developed a Calibration Tool and a Platformer Game (Ninja Survival) for the Nintendo Wii

Balance Board with the MedVR Group at USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

Maze Generation and Solution (C++) Fall 2011

Implemented Breadth First Search, Dijkstra s Shortest Path and Union-Find algorithms to

generate and solve mazes.

Sudoku Puzzle Generation and Solution (C++) Fall 2011

Programmed a Sudoku Puzzle Generator and Solver using backtracking algorithm.

Instant Messaging System (C++) Fall 2011

Simulated an instant messaging system using sockets on a network with client-server archi-

tecture.

Connect N Game (C++) Fall 2011

Developed a Connect N game to play against the computer using the Minimax algorithm

and improved on it using Alpha-beta pruning.

Web Search Mashup (PHP, JSON, REST) Summer 2011

Designed and developed a Web Search Mashup to gather web pages, images, videos, movies,

tweets and news from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Google Images, Flickr, YouTube, IMDb, Twit-

ter, Google News and Digg using their APIs.

Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, Shell Scripting and L TEX.

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Technical

Proficiency Web Development: HTML, ASP.NET, PHP, CSS, XML, JSON, REST and JavaScript.

APIs: Google Search, Google Image, Google News, YouTube, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Bing,

Twitter, Flickr, IMDb and Digg.

Tools: Visual Studio, Eclipse, OPNET, Wireshark, Unity Game Engine, MySQL and ns-2.

Platforms: Mac, *nix and Microsoft Windows.

Mentor, USC Viterbi Graduate Mentor Program - 2012

Activities

Member, Association for Computing Machinery at USC

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