Ajit Kulkarni

Current

• Software Engineer at Cisco

Past

• Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
• Interim Engineering Intern at Qualcomm Inc.
• Subject Matter Expert at Amdocs Development Center India Private Limited

• Trainee Associate Systems Analyst at National Stock Exchange of India -Private Limited

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Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• University of Mumbai
• Fatima High School

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Ajit Kulkarni’s Summary

Interests:
Content distribution networks, video streaming, distributed and grid computing, Virtualization, Mobile computing, Enterprise application development , Service oriented architecture, Computer Networking.
Product management, adding new and innovative features to make exciting products.
Experience: Software development for 3 years with client interaction and working on customer sites in challenging scenarios.
Goals: To be a CTO/senior executive of product development/engineering.

Ajit Kulkarni’s Specialties:

Client interaction , Problem solving , requirement gathering , project planning , database design. enterprise architecture design

Ajit Kulkarni’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Cisco

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Developing next generation scalable and distributed video streaming applications on Cisco's content distribution network (CDS-IS).I work currently on developing innovative streaming applications to deploy Adobe Flash technology on CDS-IS.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  February 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Developed web service framework for running different proprietary applications using Apache Axis and SOAP.

• Interim Engineering Intern

  Qualcomm Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  I worked as a summer intern at Qualcomm in the ASIC Modem test group.My work dealt with the automation of the CDMA IS919A standard and RLP protocol.The protocol dealt with high performance data transfer on mobile environments. The automation was developed in Perl.

• Subject Matter Expert

  Amdocs Development Center India Private Limited

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DOX; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 11 months)

  Sofwtaer developer in the Java and J2EE domain for the Amdocs Billing (Enabler) billing systems for telecom service providers.
  Developed new and maintained existing API’s and business objects
  Performed Requirement analysis, Software estimation, Change request design, implementation and testing, peer code review, test plan design, web development, product delivery using entire software cycle.
  
  Seminars and product presentations for Chinese and Taiwanese clients and mentor and training coordinator for new recuits.
  Client site Assignments in Cyprus, Taiwan and China: (3 months)
  
  On site support and solving production defects, requirements gathering, client training and performance tuning of production systems.

• Trainee Associate Systems Analyst

  National Stock Exchange of India -Private Limited

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Capital Markets industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

  System administration of stock exchange trading system.
  Creation and maintenance of test environments, system integration and defect solving.

Ajit Kulkarni’s Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  MS , Computer Science , 2006 — 2008

  College webpage at http://people.cs.vt.edu/~ajitkulk

• University of Mumbai

  BE , Computer Science and Engineering , 2000 — 2004

• Fatima High School

Additional Information

Ajit Kulkarni’s Groups:

•    CISCO
•    CDN Industry
•    Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
•    Cisco club
•    Fatima High School
•    Virginia Tech Alumni Group
•    Qualcomm Inc.
•    Streaming Media Professionals
•    Amdocs Enabler Developers
•    Fatima High School, Vidyavihar, Alumni
•    Amdocs India
•    VOD and Media Professionals
•    Amdocs - Employees of Past and Present
•    Fr CRIT, Agnel
•    NSE Employees Ex and Current
•    San Francisco Bay Area Hokies

Ajit Kulkarni’s Honors:

- Third rank in University of Mumbai among nearly 2500 Computer Engineering students in academic year 2003-2004.
- Received Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues memorial prize for year 2003-2004 for being 'Student of the year' in Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology.

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