Ravi Shankar Ganti
Cupertino, California 95014
919-***-****,aceq84@r.postjobfree.com
Education
UNC at Chapel Hill May 2014 (expected)
Master of Science in Information Science
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication 2009
Technology(DA-IICT) India
Bachelor of Technology in Information and Communication Technology
SKILLSET
Operating Systems – Linux and Windows
Languages - Java, C,C++,HTML, PHP, JSP, XML-XSD, Oracle 9i/10g, PIG Latin
Tool - HP Quality Center
Framework – Hadoop Mapreduce (HIVE,Hbase, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie workflows )
Work Experience
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at Chapel
Hill
Student Assistant
• Implemented algorithm to find similarity between ontology sets used by scientists using
Java,Hadoop Mapreduce and PIG
Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research, UNC at Chapel Hill
Web Developer
04/2013 –08/2013
09/2012-12/2012
• Development and maintenance of the LAIR website using PHP, JSP,CSS
03/2012 - 05/2012
Infobrain Technologies Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
Test Engineer
• Performed testing of the product Suti CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and was
incharge of a team of 3
• Conducted demos of our product to prospective clients.
• Trained clients and their employees to use our product
• Coordinate with the development team to tailor our product according to the client requirements.
Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai/Hyderabad 10/2009 - 01/2012
Assistant Systems Engineer
• Student Loan System project ( Oct 2009 to Jan 2012) )
This project involved analyzing and creating various scenarios in SLC's business flow and
implement the same using IBM WebSphere Interchange Server (WICS), Core Java
extensively. My code created business objects from data and implemented algorithms as per
the business rules.
Conducted knowledge transfer sessions within the team.
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MASTERS COURSES AND PROJECTS
• Systems Analysis, Databases 2, Information Retrieval, Web Databases, Text Mining, Usability
Testing and Evaluation, Applications of Natural Language Processing, Big Data and NoSQL.
• Masters Project : Implement algorithms for large scale data analysis to measure similarity of
surveys by social scientists (using Java,Hadoop Mapreduce and PIG Latin )
• Microblog TREC: Improve the retrieval for search queries in Twitter using query expansion
based on synset and collocation analysis.
• Facilitation of Coordination of Care with North Carolina Health Information Exchange (NC HIE)
– A project done as a part of the Systems Analysis course.
Certifications
Foundation level certification in Software Testing by the International Software Testing Qualifications
Board (ISTQB).
Activities and Accomplishments
• Awarded “Kalp Fellowship” for the year 2012-13
• Mann Citation award recognizing leadership on the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary
Engineering (HIVE) project for Spring 2013.
• “On the spot” award in Jan 11 for “well executed Software Test Life Cycle
• Organised a technical event - Forage in 2007 and an online event BullzBear (simulation of a
stock market) in 2008 for the annual techno-cultural festival at DA-IICT
• Practioner Level 2 certified by the International Krav Maga Federation and Level 2 certified by
Krav Maga Worldwide
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