Avlesh Singh

Current

• Senior Engineer at burrp!

Past

• Web Programmer at Onyomo
• SAP-ABAP Consultant at HCL Technologies

Education

• Indian School of Mines

Connections

158 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• My Creation

Avlesh Singh’s Summary

I have been with burrp! for almost 2 years now. burrp! was included in the list of top 30 start-ups worldwide by the Business 2.0 Magazine recently. I have been the key towards implementing various burrp! features and functionalities, a few of them being India's first. Programming for the web, mobile and widgetising a product are my key competencies. Prior to burrp!, I had similar programming experience at an IIT-Delhi incubated start-up called Onyomo.com

Avlesh Singh’s Specialties:

Search and related technologies, Mobile VAS (WAP & SMS), Web based architectures/frameworks, JAVA, PHP, MySQL, JSON/Javascript, XML/HTML

Avlesh Singh’s Experience

• Senior Engineer

  burrp!

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  1. Conceptualized and implemented 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 like 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.
  3. Implemented the complete AJAX interface for this site which rested on a python backend. The 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.

Avlesh Singh’s Education

• Indian School of Mines

  B.Tech , Metallurgy , 2001 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  1. Coordinator 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.
  2. Completed path breaking work on Milling technology. Presented the concept the International Mineral Processing Technology conference.

Additional Information

Avlesh Singh’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• My Creation

Avlesh Singh’s Interests:

Playing Volleyball, New internet technologies

Avlesh Singh’s Groups:

•    Startup Specialists
•    Enterprise Search Engine Professionals
•    Semantic Search

Avlesh Singh’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch