Software Engineer / Developer

Birinder Tiwana

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Surrey BC V*N 3C4

Cell 778-***-**** Home 604-***-**** E-mail ********.******@*****.***

Education:

Bachelor of Technology (Hons) – Computer Science and Engineering 2005-2009

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. CGPA (8.64/10)

Work Experience:

1.[July 2009 – July 2011] Oracle Corporation. Member Technical Staff, involved in designing and coding for the Oracle’s Product named Secure Enterprise Search.

• Enhancing crawlers for crawling various data sources like Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Fusion, Oracle Content Server etc. for the product named “Secure Enterprise Search” (SES).

• Enhancing SES to integrate with:

- Network protocols like FTPS, SFTP

- Oracle products like Credential Store Framework, Oracle 11.2.0.2 database

- Oracle Fusion App framework

• Involved in making the SES front-end follow W3 web content Accessibility guidelines.

• Troubleshooting and modifying install scripts for installation of SES on Windows Servers.

• Worked with various development teams and testing teams across time zones to understand the requirements, write functional and design specifications and provide test scenarios.

• Implementing complex data structures across multi threaded applications for enhancing the performance of the crawl.

2. [Feb 2008 – June 2009] Intinno Technologies.

• Developed various small software products using flash, AJAX, file format conversion APIs etc.

• Fixed bugs in the Intinno’s course management system product using Ruby on Rails.

Internships:

1. [May 2008-July 2008] Department of Information Systems II - FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. I was involved in three projects having the following aims-

• Developing a tool based on the JUNG libraries for the identification of opinion leaders in an opinion network.

• Developing a tool for handling the flow relationships among various entities in a shopping mall. This project also involved research work on some variants of object- oriented languages that model "relationships" as first class constructs.

• Developing a Microsoft Silverlight application for the representation of Matryoshka relationships in business processes.

2. [May 2007-July 2007] Minekey Technologies.

• I was involved in the development of the analysis framework for monitoring the use of Minekey's services.

Bachelor of Technology Project:

“Analyzing the Socio-Cognitive Structure of an Economic Research Community" under the supervision of Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar CSE, IIT Kharagpur. This project aimed at mapping the hierarchical position of people in social networks to the type of ideas they discuss.

Skills:

• Experience with Java, Java Servlets, J2EE, JDBC, C, C++, PHP, Oracle Database, JavaScript, Perl, Shell Script, PL/SQL, mySQL, HTML etc.

• Experience working on Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

• Experience with Eclipse, Oracle SQL Developer, JDeveloper, Visual Studio, vim, Cytoscape, application servers Weblogic, Apache, WAMP and version control systems ADE and SVN.

• Experience in the development of multithreaded client/server applications and database enabled applications.

• Experience with XML, SAX and DOM parsers, RSS feeds, mksnt, AJAX, Flash, SilverLight and UML.

• Web service development experience using SOAP and WSDL.

• Experience using various apache APIs like log4j, Apache Commons, JUNG libraries, MVC framework, Ruby on Rails, Apache Ant, file format conversion APIs.

• Experience with handling large sets of data, data extraction, data analysis, social network analysis, temporal analysis and search technologies.

Publications:

1. Carolin Kaiser, Birinder S Tiwana, Freimut Bodendorf "Bridging the gap between Qualitative and Quantitative analysis of opinion forums". Presented and published in the proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM conference on Web Intelligence WI - 08 held in Sydney in December 2008.

2. Tiwana, Birinder & Sarkar, Sudeshna, 2009."Analyzing the Socio-Cognitive Structure of an Economic Research Community," MPRA Paper 22483, University Library of Munich, Germany.

References:

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