Résumé

Industry

Summary

Skills

Experience

• Senior Product Engineer
  burrp! (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
  
  August 2006 - Present
  
  1. Worked with the team to introduce a concept of hierarchy within geo-data. Locations specific searches on burrp! local sites are now more intelligent and contextual than ever before. Implemented the new search algorithm.
  2. Architect of a TV-Scheduler application which allows users to view whats playing on TV in a google maps like draggable interface. Optimized the design for number of requests being fired and the caching strategy for responses.
  3. Widgetized the local search product. Wrote an API which can be used by any third party site to allow its users to perform a burrp search while being on their site.
  4. Designed and implemented a location parser to find out context from user queries. The algorithm took the raw incoming "local search" query and converted it into "what" and "where" format.
  5. Introduced SMS sending capabilities for the product. Wrote an intelligent composer to utilize every single character out of the available limit for the length of an outgoing SMS.
• Web Programmer
  Onyomo (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
  
  November 2005 - August 2006 (10 months)
  
  1. Implemented a map application similar to google maps for Indian cities. Designed the architecture of the application and its interactivity.
  2. Wrote a data logger for all user actions on the site. The logging was with respect to user activity on the site. Any click performed by the user was logged along with the context of the click. Also wrote a reporting tool for this logged data.
  3. Implemented the complete AJAX interface for this site which rested on a python backend. The key differentiator for this AJAX UI was my implementation which allowed users to use their browser's Back and Forward buttons to navigate across AJAX requests.
• SAP-ABAP Consultant
  HCL Technologies (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
  
  May 2005 - November 2005 (7 months)
  
  1. Was member of various SAP implementation teams. Also wrote a web based(ASP) application to streamline the internal project management tool.

Education

1. Bachelor of Technology (Mineral Engineering), Indian School of Mines, 2001 - 2005.
2. Cleared the IIT-JEE 2001 with an All India Rank of 3172 amongst 1,50,000 participants.

Activities

1. Been an active start-up member for the past 3 years. Possess deep understanding, knowledge and cultural know-hows of a start-up.
2. I am assisting a few NGO's, working for the upliftment of children, with my technical expertise in getting their tasks simplified. Feel free to contact me, if you are looking for any help on something similar.
3. I am trying very hard these days to contribute as much to the Open Source Community. Very soon, I'll be releasing my frameworks for Machine Learning Algorithms, JSON request-response and a Mozilla Plugin for XSS vulnerability testing. Currently, a suite of self developed products could be found here - apps.avlesh.com
4. Coordinated Srijan - Annual festival at ISM. Restructured the otherwise dead Annual cultural fest of the college. Introduced an annual technical festival at ISM for the first time. Won applauds from the nation wide participants, advertisers and administrators for huge success of the fest.
5. Completed path breaking work on Milling technology. Presented the concept the International Mineral Processing Technology conference.

Wishlist

1. I don't want to die before making a significant contribution to the "art of programming".