Gautham Pai

Current

Senior Product Engineer at Semgel Technologies

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Ugenie
Software Engineer at Ugenie
Staff Software Engineer at IBM

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Education

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Manipal Pre-University College, Manipal

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Gautham Pai’s Experience

Senior Product Engineer

Semgel Technologies

(Internet industry)

August 2009 — Present (5 months)

Being in complete charge of engineering and having joined at a stage where everything needs to be started from the ground up, my job right now is to ensure that the required engineering infrastructure is in place and also the processes and guidelines for engineering are laid out.

In terms of role, I play the role of a backend engineer, a system administrator, a test engineer and a performance engineer.
Senior Software Engineer

Ugenie

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2009 — August 2009 (7 months)

In the role of a Senior Software Engineer, I have worked on quite a few interesting and challenging projects in weRead/Lulu Poetry:

Analytics – created a generic plug-in based log processor that is able to process HTTP access logs and extract metrics and then display them in an analytics dashboard for getting quick insights on feature metrics.

Owned, architected, designed and developed the weRead application for the Yahoo Application Platform (YAP) making it the first book application to be launched on Yahoo. This application has been well appreciated by Yahoo and is taken as an example of how applications need to be built on YAP. It has also made its way into the Yahoo homepage.

Part of a 2 person development team, which worked on rewriting the poetry.com site (which is now Lulu Poetry) from scratch using the Python Django engine, Thrift, Apache Solr and the Magnolia CMS. The work involved designing, building and using Thrift services and migrating the legacy data to the new system.
Software Engineer

Ugenie

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — February 2009 (1 year 2 months)

I am a social networking application developer and work on the weRead application.

weRead is a place where you can find people who share your reading tastes and through them discover new books that you will love. This application is currently available in Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, MySpace and Hi5.

Owned, architected, designed and developed Author's corner in weRead - this is a platform for authors to interact with their readers. This single feature in weRead has attracted more than a million users till date. As part of this, I have done work in the following technologies: Drupal, Apache Solr, RRD tool. I have solved some interesting problems while building this platform, like author deduplication, author analytics tools, module based author profile pages, author indexing etc.

I have also played the lead role in SEO and i18n efforts in weRead. I also played a major role in rolling out weRead on Hi5.

Tools/Technologies: LAMP, Drupal, Solr, jQuery

My work involves end to end development of the application including but not limited to database design, server configuration, backend and frontend coding, analytics, search index creation/tweaking, SEO, i18n, security, testing etc.
Staff Software Engineer

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

July 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 7 months)

I worked for a period of 1.5 years in IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center product development. I owned the Security Policy Editor component and played a major role in designing the UI for the product. I am the co-inventor of a patent in this area.

Later I was part of the WebSphere Technology Institute for about a year, where I worked on a couple of incubation projects. The first project was to provide low latency server push support over HTTP in Geronimo. This was primarily an implementation of the Bayeux protocol using Tomcat container.

The second project was to provide a hosted IDE for Project Zero.

I am the brain behind the Eclifox project - brings Eclipse IDE to the browser with minimal developer effort and no requirement for any plugin.

I got an early promotion to Staff Software Engineer in recognition of my work.

I was actively involved in University Relation programs wherein, I used to conduct workshops, internship programs etc.

Gautham Pai’s Education

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

B.E. , Computer Science , 2001 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

Chairman of CSI-SJCE
Manipal Pre-University College, Manipal

Additional Information

Gautham Pai’s Websites:

My Website

Gautham Pai’s Interests:

web technologies, web 2.0, world wide web, social networking, innovation, usable software, software research, information organization, content management, semantic web