SWAPNIL S. SHINDE
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sshinde7
1041 A Curran ST NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
swapnil@gatech.edu
(404) 219 5562
OBJECTIVE
To pursue a challenging career in computer science industry that will utilize my problem solving and programming skills, allow me to take responsibilities and harness my potential to pioneer the future.
EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, M.S. in Computer and Information Science and Security, GPA 3.5 Dec ‘09
Pune University, India, B.E. in Computer Science with First Class May ‘07
EXPERIENCE
Global Payments Inc. (Atlanta): [http://www.globalpaymentsinc.com] [Intern - Software Engineer] Summer ‘09
Project: Maintained a Unix based backend server for an online merchant product which pulls the data from a Sybase database & passes it to .NET based front end.
Achievement: Succeeded in solving two critical problems/bugs within first month of the internship which were causing unexpected shutdown of the server and hampering the performance.
Calsoft Pvt. Ltd. (India): [http://www.calsoftinc.com] [Development Engineer] July ‘07- June ‘08
Project: The Change Log Journaling Driver is a kernel module whose main task is to create a bitmap for the disk blocks which are modified. This module along with the user level library of APIs and scripts were deliverables of the project which were used by a well know backup and recovery product. Platforms: Linux, Solaris, Aix
Achievement: Received Good Performance award within 6 months. My library APIs and scripts are part of the product.
College of Computing, Georgia Tech. (Atlanta, USA): [Teaching Assistant/Grader] Fall 2009
Course: CS6210: Advanced Operating Systems
Duties: Grading student assignments, proctoring exams and holding TA office hours for the graduate level course.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
XenAccess - Active Memory Monitoring: Currently writing APIs for XenAccess library which are built on top of newly added primitives from XenControl library which support active memory monitoring.
I will also build an application which uses these APIs to solve security issues of the user domain by active memory monitoring. [http://xenaccess.org/] [C, Xen Virtualization Platform] Fall 2009
Wanderlust - Interactive Traveler’s Guide: A mash up application using several APIs and Web 2.0 technologies, which provides relevant travel-based information in the form of video, blogs, maps, tweets, and localized IM.
[MySQL, PHP, Web APIs] Fall 2009
Secure DFS: Designed and developed a simple Secure Distributed File Service that stores copies of files created by its users at client machines where client and server authenticate each other using certificates. [Java, Windows] Spring ‘09
Priority Based Co-scheduler: Implemented a Priority Based Scheduler and a Co-scheduler for user level threads. This also deals with multi-processor environment and schedules threads considering processor affinity.
[C, Pthreads, Linux] Fall 2008
Recoverable Virtual Memory: API library is created which returns the state of the memory in case of abnormal system crash with the help of UNDO log. [C, Linux] Fall 2008
Performing Inter-process Services: By using a shared memory and message queues, a server gives services to multiple clients based on their priorities. [C, Linux ] Fall 2008
IDS protection for SSL encrypted traffic: A network based solution that helps Snort(IDS) to detect suspicious activity if VPN using SSL is used. [Snort, OpenSSL] Spring ‘07
SKILLS
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Masters: Advanced Operating Systems, Secure Computer Systems, Network Security, Advanced Internet Applications, Information Security Policies, Enterprise Middleware, Software Security (audit), Applied Cryptography
Bachelors: Computer Networks, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Object Oriented Modeling and Design, Database Management Systems, Embedded Systems, Computer Graphics
ACTIVITIES
State level academic scholarships in high school
Trusted Infrastructure Workshop @Carnegie Mellon University in Summer ‘09
2nd Dan Brown Belt of Shito-Ryu-Karate
Led Outdoor Adventure Camps
3 Years Experience of Playing Tabla (a classical instrument)
Team Lead – VIT TechFest 2007
Member - VIT Cultural Group & Calsoft Cricket Club
Leisure Learning – Cuda, IPhone and Android Development, SIP
REFERENCES
Available upon request