Software Engineer

SRITEJ VELAGA

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OBJECTIVE

To seek a challenging position in system software/firmware development.

SUMMARY

• 2+ years of research experience in 802.11 wireless networks as a graduate research assistant.

• Solid understanding of wireless device drivers for Linux.

• Experience in Kernel level programming and debugging.

• Good knowledge of TCP/IP protocol stack, Linux internals & UNIX programming concepts.

• Experience in OS porting to mobile platforms and board bring up.

• Comfortable with using electronic lab equipment like oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science Candidate (GPA-3.54/4.0) Expected Dec 2009

The Centre for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunication Engineering September 2003-June 2007

M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, MPI C, C++, Perl, VHDL, MATLAB.

Platforms: UNIX, LINUX, WINDOWS.

Assembly Languages: 8085, x86, 8051.

Software

-Simulation: Modelsim,Qualnet ( network simulator)

-Assembly: Microsoft Assembler (MASM), KEIL C.

-Network Analyzer: Wireshark, Kismet.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant Fall 2007- June 2009

During my graduate study, I was associated with the Wireless systems protocol engineering and research lab. Here, I worked on various research projects in the field of wireless networks. My research areas are

1) Cross layer design based association schemes in wireless networks.

2) Real time performance monitoring of wireless networks.

Teaching Assistant Spring 2008

TA for Mobile computing (Graduate level Course).Duties includes grading assignments and term papers and assisting the professor in preparing lecture notes.

Intern Spring 2007

Interned with Electronics and radar development establishment, Bangalore where we developed a DDR SDRAM controller core for a virtex-4 FPGA. The controller core written in VHDL controls the operation of the RAM.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Smart association in wireless mesh networks

In this project, I worked on developing an association protocol for 802.11 mesh networks. In this protocol, statistics like channel idle time, air time cost etc are taken into account before an association decision is made. I was responsible for developing the cross layer service module (CLSM) using which, an application can get the network statistics.

Working on this project helped me build a solid understanding of wireless networks along. I also acquired very good knowledge on Linux internals, Kernel programming and debugging and device drivers.

• Real time monitoring tool for mesh routers

This tool gathers periodic network statistics from mesh boxes and displays them on a web interface. Certain network stats (like packet drop, packets sent on the interface etc) logged in the driver are brought to the user space daemon by using certain system calls. These stats are sent to a client machine (through a TCP connection) where a real time plot is shown on a web interface. During this project, I learned the Linux OS, implementing system calls and wireless tools like Ethereal, Kismet.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Implemented a centralized peer to peer network for file sharing (C on Linux).

• Implemented a distributed peer to peer network for file sharing using MIT’s chord algorithm (C on Linux).

• Improved performance of RAPID (a resource allocation protocol for intentional DTN routing) by using packet replication using erasure coding .This method improved the packet latency by 20%. (simulation in C)

• Designed and implemented single-Cycle MIPS architecture in VHDL.

• Proposed and implemented a hybrid code compression technique for embedded systems. Using this technique, the compression ratio improved by about 12% for certain applications

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

• Graduate

Mobile computing, Computer networks, Algorithms, Operating systems, Computer architecture, Advanced computer architecture, Embedded systems.

• Undergraduate

Electronic circuits, power electronics, logic design, digital signal processing, analog and digital communication, microwave communication, antenna theory

ACHIEVEMENTS/ACTIVITIES

• Awarded Graduate Teaching Assistantship by The University of Louisiana at Lafayette for spring 2008.

• Member of the organizing committee for ‘Phase-shift 06’, a national level Technical fest conducted by TCE Dept, MSRIT, Bangalore.

• Reached senior level grading (green belt) in Karate at Rakum Dojo, Bangalore.

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