
Information Architect
Delhi Area, India

Information Architect
Delhi Area, India
Technical hand with keen interest in understanding the domain and forwarding solutions attuned to the situation.
I started my career as system administrator in a Multi OS environment. The 8 years of experience in the industry, I have filled into roles as a developer, team leader and motivator. Specializing at taking abstract problems and making it into runnable code.
Currently seeking work as a photographer. I specialize in portrait and documentary genre. I would prefer work which is socially meaningful
Development, performance tuning, profiling, software design, team building, training, technical documentation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Volunteered for guiding kids at SWRC Barefoot college, Tilonia. Teaching the finer points of using photography. The workshop was starting point for designing a one page newspaper for the village.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
I am helping re-design the workflow of company information system. I am managing some key infrastructure projects for there Tru-i suite. This software is turn-key solution for digital signage
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
With Jagori, I was involved to organize a film festival called Chromosome which shows movies related to gender issues. I am also involved with photo-documentation of their various projects
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2006 — November 2008 (2 years)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 10 months)
Helped create SMS platform which talks to multi-carrier and it multi-language. Lead a team to perform code audit. Performance and unittest testing of current code base. Expanding web services to include many new features.
Keywords: Python, Postgresql, plpgsql, unittest, jmeter, Solaris, Linux, GNU toolchain
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 10 months)
Sapphire is a mobile application startup. My role here is to develop a generic system to run to glue various web-services which interact with our software.
(Internet industry)
June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)
Technical consultant for TimesJobs (http://www.timesjobs.com) responsible for all technology (development and deployment) related to their search engine initiative. Timesjobs is among the big three jobs portals in India. This yet to be deployed system would radically improve the search quality on the portal.
Keywords: Lucene, memcache, jmeter, Apache Solr
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; MNST; Internet industry)
November 2005 — February 2006 (4 months)
Lead the design initiative for search engine on monsterindia website(http://monsterindia.com). Job search domain poses unique problems for vertical search because of shear volume of search-able inventory and required refresh rate.
The developed piece of code forms the spine of monsterindia job portal.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 1 month)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 2 months)
Yahoo user database is among the largest databases in terms of size. With its custom C++ API, unique challenge was to develop a modular interface to data-mine. I developed Perl XS and SQL(like) interface for the database.
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2003 — January 2004 (1 year 1 month)
I helped setup innovative low cost computer infrastructure for Aman. The organization works on issue of conflict resolution.
(Non-Profit; Fine Art industry)
August 2000 — January 2004 (3 years 6 months)
As among the first employs of Sarai, a new media initiative, at CSDS. I was involved with setting up its infrastructure. I also help initiate the Free Software project at Sarai which currently runs well known fellowship for FLOSS based research.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year)
As a senior member in a small company, I filled many roles. As a developer for Java and C, prospecting clients and team leader for high performance applications using J2EE.
I also worked on scheduler module of in-house developed grid system for GE research center
(Non-Profit; Fine Art industry)
August 2002 — August 2002 (1 month)
Location(n) was an installation art project which played with the idea of urban dislocation. This installation was shown at Itau Cultural in Sao Paulo and Natura Morte Gallery in New Delhi
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — February 2001 (8 months)
I helped stream-line technology infrastructure for ICRIER which is premier institution for research in fields of economics and international relations
Bachelor , Computer Application , 1998 — 2007
Yuck yuck yuck place to study
1996 — 1998
Films,Photography, Reading, Writing, Blogging, Poems, Concept maps