Hemant Bhanoo

Current

• Principal Engineer at Jambool

Past

• Founder at reporterist, inc.
• Sr. Software Engineer at amazon.com
• Software Engineer at Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University

• Software Engineering Intern at Cisco Systems

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Hemant Bhanoo’s Summary

* principal engineer, jambool
* founder, reporterist, inc.
previously, at amazon.com:
* distributed caching - algorithms, tools, apis.
* remote development - help set up center in bangalore, india.
* distributed metrics collection.
* website rendering/service invocation platform.

Hemant Bhanoo’s Experience

• Founder

  reporterist, inc.

  (Newspapers industry)

  February 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  Bootstrapped reporterist to create a cheap and trusted news source for newspaper editors - as an alternative to traditional wire services.
  
  - Built a platform combining eBay and eLance style interactions to help editors and journalists sell and source news articles.
  - Ran a successful beta program across 14 newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area. With help from faculty, staff and students at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
  - Finalist in the UC Berkeley Business plan competition.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  amazon.com

  (Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

  March 2002 — February 2007 (5 years)

  - Reported to the CTO; consulted with the distributed caching team on algorithms, tools, apis.
  Patent: http://www.google.com/patents?id=GBCoAAAAEBAJ
  
  - One of three engineers from Seattle to start a remote development center in Bangalore for amazon.com. Worked on v1 (internal use only, by Mechanical Turk) of the Amazon Flexible Payment System.
  
  - Website Telemetry - 3-5 engineers collecting run-time metrics from the distributed system.
  
  - Website Platform - 5-8 engineers that took two products (an inhouse request-reply service invocation framework and an application server from prototype to production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurupa

• Software Engineer

  Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  January 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 5 months)

  Worked on the compiler for a simulation language.

• Software Engineering Intern

  Cisco Systems

  (Internet industry)

  January 1999 — August 1999 (8 months)

  Co-op program

Hemant Bhanoo’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  MS , Computer Engineering , 2000 — 2002

  Graduated from the Information Networking Institute; an interdisciplinary program run by the Computer Engineering department and affiliated with the School of Computer Science, Heinz School of Public Policy, and the Tepper School of Management.
  
  Thesis: Realistic Traffic Generators for Network Simulations. (Dr. Srinivasan Seshan, CS dept.)

• Carnegie Mellon University

  BS , Computer Engineering , 1996 — 2000

  Honors Thesis: Technology Transfer: Network Infrastructure in India. (Dr. Raj Reddy, CS dept.)