Engineer Software

RAVI SASTRY KADALI

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Challenge-oriented, customer-focused IT leader with more than nine years of

relevant experience in software design and R&D in multi-national companies,

working in cross-functional teams and communicating with c-level managers

Interests: Distributed computing - worked on Hadoop Cluster vs Storm

Cluster Project

EDUCATION University at BUffalo, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK,

School of management

Master of Science in Management Information Systems, expected

May 2014 GPA 3.9/4.0

SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY, Tirupati, INDIA

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering,

April 2001 GPA 4.0/4.0

Graduated first class with distinction, awarded "certificate

of merit" for securing fifth rank in the university

PROFESSIONAL TERADATA INDIA PRIVATE LTD (R&D Labs), Hyderabad, INDIA

EXPERIENCE Senior Software Engineer - III Oct 2011 - July 2013

. Performed business analysis, created scenarios, interface

diagrams for system development

. Interacted with key stakeholders to understand business

requirements and client needs

. Assisted PMO with project scheduling, dependencies,

managing impacts

. Conducted risk analysis of 800 odd defects and recommended

process improvements during development and minimized the

business and technology risk

. Designed Client-Server Architecture; IPC Instrumentation

framework for abort of UDFs

. Accurately estimated the efforts and successfully delivered

Teradata features; Asynchronous aborts in AMP, designed and

developed Proof of Concept for Parser Memory Usage

Statistics collection, Enhancements to Reduce 3610 feature

. Developed best practices for instrumentation,

experimentation

. Worked in cross functional teams to provide necessary

feedback and transformed into solutions

. Mentored three new recruits; trained them quickly on the

Teradata database internals

MICROSOFT INDIA R&D PRIVATE LTD, Hyderabad, INDIA

Software Design Engineer in Test, Oct 2006 - Apr 2009

. Provided end-to-end delivery for the development and

release of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack, XP SP3, Vista

SP2 windows updates and hotfixes for backup infrastructure

. Worked closely with SDE, Test Leads and other PMs to meet

the organizational goals

. Performed thorough impact analysis of customers' problems,

recognized areas for improvement and discussed alternative

solutions with the management to develop optimal solutions

. Made design level contributions to the volsnap driver and

vss infrastructure for "Snapshot Protection Mode" feature

and improved the quality of the product

. Proactively took additional responsibility of handling RFCs

to meet customer requirements on time

. Managed partner vendors for Test Pass runs, helped

Microsoft to reduce testing efforts by 90% and resources by

75% by developing automation tools

. Maintained code quality standards through test development

by leveraging the in-house tools such as code coverage, WTT

technologies and improved the test coverage through

automation

. Participated in code reviews, provided necessary

documentation to the partners

IBM INDIA PRIVATE LTD (INDIA SOFTWARE LABS), Bengaluru, INDIA

Staff Software Engineer, Nov 2004 - Oct 2006

. Contributed to Perl Project - resolved Unicode issues, made

100% portable onto IBM z/OS UNIX

. Successfully led a team of three in directing and assigning

the tasks

. Published poster presentation on Porting Open Source

applications onto z/OS UNIX at the Software Engineering for

Tomorrow conference at the IBM, T. J. Watson Research

Center, NY, Oct 2006

IBM LABS, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Software Engineer, Jan 2005 - March 2005

. Chief point-of-contact for the onsite team; Led a project

team of offshore developers on the Perl porting onto z/OS

UNIX subsystem for end-to-end knowledge transfer to the

associates in India

CENTRE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS, DEFENCE R & D

ORG. Bengaluru, INDIA Scientist - B, June 2002 - Nov 2004

. Researched, designed and developed internet traffic

monitoring software and deployed at agencies

. Carried out extensive research on a library of multi-

keyword search algorithms, developed a modified version of

the "Aho-Corasick Algorithm" for online analysis of

patterns, worked in collaboration with Indian Institute of

Science, Bengaluru, INDIA in developing encode modules

. As a system administrator, maintained the intranet and

managing user accounts

INTERNSHIP HUNTER JAMES KELLEY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (HJKRI), Buffalo, NY

Web Management and Design Intern, Team Lead, Jan 2014 - May

2014

. Transfer current HJKRI website over to the UB Content

Management System

. Lead the efforts in integrating HJKRI site into the UB

Communications umbrella, ensuring data quality and

consistency

OTHER UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

EXPERIENCE Technology Innovation Management, Grader, spring 2014,

Teaching Assistant, fall 2013

ANALOG INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES INSTITUTE, Hyderabad,

INDIA

Teaching Assistant, Union Public Service Commission

Examination, Apr 2009 - Oct 2011

N.B.K.R. INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Nellore, INDIA

Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering June 2001

- Apr 2002

TECHNICAL OS: SUSE Linux, IBM z/OS UNIX, Windows XP/2003, Windows

Vista

SKILLS Languages: Extensive coding experience in C, C++, multi-

threaded programming, data structures and

algorithms, debugging applications, IPC

mechanisms, Perl internals, SQL, HTML, PHP, Java

and Perl Scripting

Technologies: Basic understanding of statistical analysis,

experience with SPSS and Distributed Computing, big

data analytics - batch processing and In-memory

techniques; backup and recovery solutions using

shadow copy technology in Windows, porting of open

source tools, sniffer technologies: Packet

capturing, design and development of fast, efficient

content filtering techniques.

Hadoop Cluster vs Storm Cluster Project

Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

Batch processed web logs using Hadoop to determine how the

processing would compare to a Storm cluster of three

nodes, Nimbus, Zookeeper, and worker that real-time

processed the same web logs.

Database: Conceptual Modeling, Client-Server Architecture,

Teradata, MySQL, NoSQL, Access

Tools: Experience with SDLC using waterfall, Scrum, Rapid

Application Development, process modelling, Social

Network Analysis, UCINET, lean Six Sigma tools and

DMAIC framework, currently learning data mining

using SAS EMiner

PROJECT Conducted business case analysis through Harvard business reviews and

MANAGEMENT provided recommendations

Proven experience in leading teams

Developed feature ideas into detailed specs, worked in multiple teams to

deliver the product in time

Facilitated and motivated high performance through open channels of

communication across boundaries to facilitate sharing of knowledge and

ideas

Generated solutions to complex or unusual problems. Synthesized

information from multiple sources to contribute to the solution of a

problem

Strong cross-team collaboration skills with demonstrable successes

Ability to manage tasks, team members for assigned projects and update

management on project and resource successes, problems, and concerns.

Experience in providing technical direction and guidance to less

experienced personnel to include oversight of tasks and deliverables on a

project by project basis.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Deep passion for software quality, customer satisfaction and engineering

excellence

ACHIEVEMENTS First among ninety students to receive credit bearing internship offer

from Hunter James Kelley Research Institute, Buffalo as a "Web Content

Management design intern", Jan 2014

Received letter of appreciation from customers for timely responses in

solving customers' problems at Microsoft during 2009

One of the 25 selected dignitaries from all over the IBM for a poster

presentation on "Porting Open Source applications onto z/OS Unix and

general tips for porting" at the Software Engineering for Tomorrow

Conference at the IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, Oct,

2006

Listed as Perl contributor in the Perl development community

Received an award for conducting workshop on "Content Scanning

Techniques" at DRDO, 2003-2004

Chosen among top eight candidates all over India as Scientist-B for

Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) in 2002

Served as the student secretary for IEEE Computer Science department for

two years, 2000, 2001

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