Technical Guru at Ziva
Bangalore Area, India
- Current
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- Technical Guru at Ziva
- Co-Editor and Oversight at Wikipedia
- Past
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- Technical Expert at Ziva
- CTO at Kneaver
- Research Engineer at Yahoo!
- Software Engineer at Yahoo!
- Research Intern at Yahoo!
- Teaching Assistant at International Institute of Information Technology
- Summer Intern at CL Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
- Software Engineer at Madras Cements
- Education
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- International Institute of Information Technology
- Madurai Kamaraj University
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BalaSundaraRaman (Sundar)’s Summary
Over six years of research and engineering experience mostly around information extraction and data analysis as applied in web and mobile search.
• April 2007 – Present: Ziva Software
Information Extraction for Mobile Search (http://zook.in)
• December 2006 – February 2007: Kneaver
Setting up and bootstrapping India development centre at Madurai
• December 2003 – November 2006: Yahoo!
Information Extraction, Data Analysis, Hackery
• September 2001 – July 2002: Madras Cements
Visual Basic - SQL Server applications, ERP implementation
# Education
• August 2002 – May 2004: iiit-b (Masters in IT)
Graduate Student, Teaching Assistant, Research Intern
• 1997 – 2001: Madurai Kamaraj University (Bachelors in Engineering (CS))
# Volunteer work
• March 2004 – Present: Wikipedia and sister projects
Editorial, oversight, automation, localisation, and liason
BalaSundaraRaman (Sundar)’s Specialties:
formal grammars, parsers, crawlers, Perl programming, rapid prototyping, Natural Language Processing, location-based services, graph theory, data analysis, business development
BalaSundaraRaman (Sundar)’s Experience
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Technical Guru
Ziva
(Wireless industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Plumbing the extraction pipeline to start feeding into http://zook.in in large scale and with improved quality
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Co-Editor and Oversight
Wikipedia
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
• Editing the English Wikipedia since March 2004 and the Tamil Wikipedia since July 2004
• Admin in the English Wikipedia and Bureaucrat in the Tamil Wikipedia by community consensus - main tasks include enforcing policy using tools and executing community decisions
• Automation of certain editorial and data migration tasks in Wikipedia and Wiktionary using my bot
• Localisation for the Tamil Wikipedia and liasoning with Wikipedians across multiple language wikis -
Technical Expert
Ziva
(Wireless industry)
April 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Solving information extraction and retrieval problems to provide precise answers at http://zook.in
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CTO
Kneaver
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2006 — February 2007 (3 months)
Setting up the Madurai development centre being the first employee, hiring and heading a small product development team to create a prototype of our Knowledge Management product.
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Research Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
August 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Heuristic-based automated information extraction from web pages, searching personal information networks, and several web-based hacks.
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Software Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Worked on several projects involving data analysis and shopping vertical extraction.
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Research Intern
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
December 2003 — May 2004 (6 months)
Wrote a tool to categorise banner ads and add suitable tags to them for better matching.
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Teaching Assistant
International Institute of Information Technology
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2003 — December 2003 (5 months)
Teaching Assistant for the "Data Structures" course under Prof.Srinath Srinivasa
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Summer Intern
CL Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2003 — July 2003 (3 months)
Worked on AnMol, an analytical platform for Protein Molecular Structures based on our research at Open Systems Lab of iiit-b.
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Software Engineer
Madras Cements
(Building Materials industry)
September 2001 — July 2002 (11 months)
Developed in-house IT solutions using Visual Basic and SQL Server and facilitated deployment of Ramco Marshall ERP system.
BalaSundaraRaman (Sundar)’s Education
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International Institute of Information Technology
Information Technology 2002 — 2004
• Worked under Prof.Srinath Srinivasa in a research project called GRACE - a graph data management system for Chemical and Protein structures.
• Published a technical report on a new algorithm for graph mining called FBT along with Prof.Srinath.
• Co-authored a research paper titled "Context-free grammars for natural language constructs - An implementation for Venpa class of Tamil poetry".
• Was awarded the Gold Medal for “Contributions to Professional Activities” by iiit-b.
• Got first place in the Algorithm Contest conducted by IEEE Student Chapter of iiit-b. -
Madurai Kamaraj University
Bachelor of Engineering , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001
• Got the first place in the General Aptitude test conducted by Dindigul Chapter of Indian Society of Technical Education.
• Given the “Best Student Award” sponsored by Pepsico India Holdings Limited- Activities and Societies:
- Chairman, Computer Society of India - Dindigul Student Chapter (2000-2001) - organised a national level technical symposium ‘DIXIT Delirium’.
Vice Chairman, Computer Society of India - Dindigul Student Chapter (1999-2000) - organised a national level technical symposium ‘DIXIT 2k’.
Additional Information
BalaSundaraRaman (Sundar)’s Interests:
linguistics, biology, Wikipedia
BalaSundaraRaman (Sundar)’s Groups:
INFITT (http://infitt.org), Open Systems Laboratory, Oktave Research
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On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
MobilOpen :: the mobile business group -
Yahoo Alums -
Internet Technology Hub -
Wikipedia Users Group -
Yahoo! alumni -
The Language Technology Group -
IIIT Bangalore -
Ex-Yahoo Bangalore -
Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group -
Mobile Product Management -
Internet Product Management Group -
Wikipedians -
Perl -
Text Analytics -
Wikimedia Foundation -
TVS Lakshmi MHSS - LOSA -
IIMB-NSRCEL Incubation Group -
Web crawlers -
TheWhereBusiness -
The Indian Startup Fraternity -
Wikipedia India
BalaSundaraRaman (Sundar)’s Honors:
• Received a citation from Yahoo! Bangalore CEO for "contributions beyond the call of duty" relating to a) rapid developing a crawler for Yahoo! Subscriptions Search and b) facilitation of a partnership with and a donation for the Wikimedia Foundation, its biggest then.
• Awarded the Gold Medal for “Contributions to Professional Activities” by my Graduate School, Indian Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore.
• Won the “Young IT Professional Award – 2003” from the Computer Society of India for my Project Thedal.
• Won a “Honourable Mention Award” at the innovators contest called Eureka conducted by the Indian Institute of Science.
• Got first place in the Algorithm Contest conducted by IEEE Student Chapter of iiit-b.
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