Jai Vikram Singh Verma

Current

• Developer at Touted Inc. (formerly LikeMatter)

Past

• Python Developer and developer lead at Serendio
• Graduate Intern at RTBI/TeNet group @ IIT Madras
• Freelance Project at DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,

• Summer Intern at Reliance Infocomm

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Education

• Vellore Institute of Technology

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Jai Vikram Singh Verma’s Experience

• Developer

  Touted Inc. (formerly LikeMatter)

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Working as an offshore developer (Freelance Consultant)
  at Touted Inc. (formerly LikeMatter ), an early-stage startup, based in
  Boston, MA, USA.
  
  Leading the architectural design and development
  of a large-scale web based service from ground up.
  The service deals with using Twitter conversations
  to suggest and promote local businesses and events.
  
  Working with (but not limited to) the following technologies:
  1. Python, Django, Javascript, JSON, JQuery.
  2. Cloud computing (AWS, EC2, S3, SimpleDB)
  2. Open APIs (Twitter Search API, Google Local & Maps, etc.)
  3. Firefox extension (Javascript and XUL).

• Python Developer and developer lead

  Serendio

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 8 months)

  Worked with a small team of 6 developers. Worked on two business and market intelligence products. Based on content aggregation and analysis, from the web as well as in-house.
  
  Knowledge management product and on-demand information retrieval, data mining, extraction, analytics for enterprises.
  
  Designed a distributed, scalable, extensible web-crawler architecture and developed the core modules of the same in Python.
  
  Embarking lately on text analytics, learning about sentence splitters, Bayesian classifiers, rule based context disambiguation, etc.
  
  Working in [Python, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Solr, Turbogears]
  
  Worked on Workflow automation product earlier on.

• Graduate Intern

  RTBI/TeNet group @ IIT Madras

  (Computer Networking industry)

  November 2006 — April 2007 (6 months)

  Extensive work in Python, Turbogears. Developed a web portal with 4 interfaces viz. Web, SMS, Mobile Web and Automated speech recognition. Worked majorly on the model and controller part (MVC), with minor contributions to the view in Javascript/AJAX(Created an innovative and intuitive web UI for rural folk). The portal works as aggregator, organizer (warehouse) and channelizer of relevant and critical Information for rural India.

• Freelance Project

  DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

  February 2007 — February 2007 (1 month)

  The project involved work in Python, JavaScript. A part of the work also involved semi-automated web scraping.

• Summer Intern

  Reliance Infocomm

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

  May 2005 — June 2005 (2 months)

Jai Vikram Singh Verma’s Education

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  B. Tech , Computer Science Engineering , 2003 — 2007

Additional Information

Jai Vikram Singh Verma’s Websites:

• My Blog

Jai Vikram Singh Verma’s Interests:

Network Security, Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence (using Neural Networks), troubleshooting any logical/rational thing. Working-in/ leading/ managing teams. Powerful, evangelistic and iconic marketing of products.

Jai Vikram Singh Verma’s Groups:

Open Coffee club (The Chennai Entrepreneur club), Ubuntu India, Computer Society of India (CSI), Linked In Open Networkers [LION] on facebook, LinkedIn, Open Networker

•    Python Community
•    Facebook.com
•    SoftwareEngineering
•    India Believers
•    NetworkingPros
•    Leadership Think Tank
•    Bright Ideas & Entrepreneurs
•    One Laptop Per Child - OLPC
•    LinkingIndia
•    YOUNG INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS
•    A World Citizen Program - web 2.0 project
•    Leading International Open Networkers (LION)
•    Innovation and Entrepreneurship
•    Django
•    Education in Developing Countries
•    Change Agents
•    TurboGears
•    India Leadership Network
•    We love India - professionals for empowering India's future.
•    Emacs

Jai Vikram Singh Verma’s Honors:

Microsoft’s embedded development competition 2007: Conceptualized an innovative product addressing a major problem of all developing nations of the world. Cleared the first round - within top 200 among 7000 applicants world over. Developed a prototype but didn’t qualify for the world finals.
Lead the team of 4, with an entrepreneur mentor
(Jan, 2007-May, 2007).
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Conceptualized a new freelancer-to-freelancer software component exchange model. The business plan reached the finals of ‘Technopreneurship’ business plan competition event at “Tryst’07”, the Annual tech fest at IIT Delhi. Worked in a team of 4 (Jan - Feb 2007)
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All India 3rd prize for technical Paper presentation on Intrusion detection and prevention, at National Student Convention 2006, Computer Society of India

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