Piyush Verma

Current

• Fraalncing at Freelancing (Self-employed)

Past

• Software Engineer at Chaupaati Bazaar Pvt Ltd.
• Software Engineer at Mpower Mobile
• KDE Evangelist at KDE

• Technical Writer at EFY
• Student Developer at Google
• Intern at Sapphire Mobile Systems
• Research Student at YMCA Institute Of Engineering

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Education

• YMCA Institute Of Engineering
• Modern Vidya Niketan

Recommended

6 people have recommended Piyush

Connections

98 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My OSS Log

Piyush Verma’s Summary

An enthusiastic Programmer, with zeal to continue learning every day on the job. Always interested in analyzing problems and working towards their solutions.

Piyush Verma’s Specialties:

Python, Lexers and Grammars, C++

Piyush Verma’s Experience

• Fraalncing

  Freelancing (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Publishing industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  I am currently available to work as a consultant or for contracted work.

• Software Engineer

  Chaupaati Bazaar Pvt Ltd.

  (Consumer Services industry)

  April 2009 — July 2009 (4 months)

• Software Engineer

  Mpower Mobile

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  August 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 7 months)

  Mpower is a Mobile payment startup. My work involves programming in Python on Linux. The tasks deal with Web Services, Payment Processors, and the core API of the code.
  * Implemented a YACC & LEX based request processor, which replaced the existing individual request class based architecture.
  * Implemented a localization management tool using Django with Postgres back-end, Idioms, used for managing translations. Open Source release hosted at: http://code.gogole.com/p/idioms
  * Re-implemented the existing Enrollment Web Service, to support multiple accounts per user, also enable multiple enrollment technique s associated with each bank.
  * Implemented couple of core projects that added to products functionality.

• KDE Evangelist

  KDE

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  August 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  I have been involved with the KDE community as a programmer. I have also represented KDE, and conducted workshops at various conferences, The major ones being:
  * Talk: Extending KDevelop4 @ Foss.In 2007
  http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=247
  * Talk: KDE4, The Devel Eye @ Open Source India Week 2007
  * Talk: KDE4: The Joy Ride, for the User and the Developer @ Techkriti, IIT Kanpur
  * Talk: Surfing the KDE world with a Python @ Foss.In 2008 http://foss.in/2008/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=669
  * Workshop: Bringing KDE closer to the user @ Foss.In 2008 http://workouts.foss.in/2008/index.php/Starting_KDE_closer_to_the_User and
  http://foss.in/2008/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=630

• Technical Writer

  EFY

  (Privately Held; Writing and Editing industry)

  October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

  Been writing technical articles for the EFY magazine "Linux For You".
  November 2007: Pythonify Kdevelop4.
  December 2007: Introducing Nagios.
  February 2008: Tracking Trac
  March 2008: Developing Trac.

• Student Developer

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — September 2007 (7 months)

  Worked as a Summer-Of-Code Programmer. Worked on "Python support for Kdevelop4" mentored by Andreas Pakulat. The Project involved writing a Lexer, the Grammar and the parser to read python codes. The Syntax trees were used further to write a Definition use Chain that was further used for extended Code Highlighting for Python in Kdevelop4.
  More Details on the Project: http://code.google.com/soc/2007/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=634886428E6FDB18
  and http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2007-kde/downloads/detail?name=Piyush_Verma.tar.gz&can=2&q=

• Intern

  Sapphire Mobile Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — July 2007 (7 months)

  Pursued my Internship in the firm mentored by Sirtaj Singh Kang.
  The tasks involved: designing plug-in for TRAC, setting up a Nagios for monitoring the servers, writing extension to the Python Logging Module and extend the Python distutils module to support extended RPM capabilities.

• Research Student

  YMCA Institute Of Engineering

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

  January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)

  Was working On the project Local Non Linear Embedding, under Dr. Rajiv Kapoor. The project aimed at intelligent data reduction on data captured from a video motion camera, and design an algorithm to recognize facial gestures.

Piyush Verma’s Education

• YMCA Institute Of Engineering

  BTech , Computer Engineering , 2003 — 2007

• Modern Vidya Niketan

  High School , 1990 — 2003

Additional Information

Piyush Verma’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My OSS Log

Piyush Verma’s Interests:

extreme programming, python programming, operating systems, travelling, photography, rain.

Piyush Verma’s Groups:

•    Python Community
•    Wireless Telecommunications Worldwide
•    We love India - professionals for empowering India's future.
•    KDE
•    Trance

Piyush Verma’s Contact Settings

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