Harsha Vardhan Reddy Nooka
******************@*****.*** +1-352-***-**** 4000 SW 37th Blvd., Apt# 1017, Gainesville, FL 32608
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshanooka
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a challenging full time position as a Software Engineer/ MTS starting May 2016
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Computer Science/Engineering May 2016
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL GPA: 3.57/4.00
Coursework: Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Virtual Computing, Principles of Computer System Design, Advanced System Programming, Wireless Networks, Image Processing, Reconfigurable Computing, Computer Architecture, Wireless Communications
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering May 2014
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India GPA: 8.42/10.00
SKILLS
Programming & Scripting Languages : Java, C, Python, Shell
Software Tools : Xcode, Android Studio, MATLAB, Xilinx, Simplescalar
Operating System : Windows, Android, Linux, iOS
Other Skills : Android Application Development, Android UI Automation, UI testing
WORK EXPERIENCE
BlackBerry Ltd., Software Development Intern, Sunrise, USA August 2015 – December 2015
Optimized the runtime for the android stability test suite by 10% by automating the setup steps on the device using Robot framework
Created device keywords for handling unexpected popups during testing
Automated the environment setup on Linux machines for android testing by writing shell scripts for installing the robot framework, Android Studio, Robot Parser and other blackberry tools
Scalable Software Systems, Research Assistant (iOS Developer), UF May 2015 – August 2015
Designed and Developed a Tab View Controller with Split View functionality and also embedded a message view controller based on Slack Text View Messenger
ACADEMIC P R O J E C T S
Performance Comparisons of various hypervisors March 2015 – May 2015
Comparison of hypervisors such as kvm, Xen and Linux Containers by observing metrics such as Network activity, file system I/O, CPU and Memory
More emphasis on kvm, which is built on a Cloudlab server and used benchmarks such as IOZone, ramspeed, Netperf, Bonnie++, NGINX and Filebench to observe the performance on various workloads
A Balanced and Secure Fuse File System November 2014 – December 2014
Implemented the load balancing on the servers and security of the files using AES for Fuse File system
Robust against severe attacks on files in the server, improper file storage on multiple servers
Modification of LRU replacement policy for enhancing Cache replacement November 2014 – December 2014
Hacked into Simple Scalar source code and added a new Cache Replacement policy that considers the temporal locality of the Cache Blocks
Achieved a better miss rate of 1.5 times than the existing cache replacement policies
A Fatigue Detection System using MATLAB October 2015 – December 2015
Face detection is done using Viola Jones algorithm, Bounding Box algorithm and skin color segmentation
Detected eyes from the face using Cascade Object Detector system in MATLAB, and eye state detection by comparing histogram analysis of the eyes in closed and open state
ACHIEVEMENTS
Awarded Ministry of Human Resources Development scholarship, India for Undergraduate studies
Successfully organized various tech talks in the field of Electronics & Communications at VIT University