Prakhar Agrawal

Current

• Fedora Ambassador at Fedora Project
• Chairman at BITS-Pilani ACM Student Chapter
• Student Partner for BITS-Pilani at Microsoft

• Campus Ambassador for BITS -Pilani at Wells Fargo

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Past

• Chairman at BITS-Pilani ACM Student Chapter
• Intern at Yuken India Limited
• Apogee Coordinator at BITS-Pilani ACM Student Chapter

• Intern at HCL-CDC

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Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science

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Connections

107 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Prakhar Agrawal’s Experience

• Fedora Ambassador

  Fedora Project

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 month)

  * Represent Fedora Project to the wider public
  * Help spread the word about Fedora, Linux, and Open Source
  * Be a point of contact for local community members and channel the feedback to Fedora Project
  * Help recruit project contributors
  * Think of creative ways for promoting Fedora in your region

• Chairman

  BITS-Pilani ACM Student Chapter

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 2008 — Present (2 months)

• Student Partner for BITS-Pilani

  Microsoft

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

  February 2008 — Present (8 months)

  * Promote and build city-level Microsoft Student User Group
  * Organize city-level events like Academic Developers’ Conference (DevCon)
  * Deploy &/or maintain Live@Edu
  * MSDN AA Administrator
  * Conduct at least 1 session per month in the College campus Clubs.
  * Participate and drive at least 50 entries in Imagine Cup 2009
  * Promote Microsoft academic projects in campus
  * Mentor other MSPs

• Campus Ambassador for BITS -Pilani

  Wells Fargo

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

  January 2008 — Present (9 months)

• Chairman

  BITS-Pilani ACM Student Chapter

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)

  The BITS Pilani Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.

• Intern

  Yuken India Limited

  (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  May 2008 — July 2008 (3 months)

  Worked as a Summer Intern for 2 months as a part of my Practice School (PS) program. Project Title: "Process Optimisation using Shainen Techniques"

• Apogee Coordinator

  BITS-Pilani ACM Student Chapter

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — March 2008 (1 month)

• Intern

  HCL-CDC

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)

Prakhar Agrawal’s Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science

  B.E. (Hons), 2006 — 2010 (expected)

  Activities and Societies:

  BITS-ACM Student Chapter, Oasis English Press, First ever MSP from BITS-Pilani, Won the Wells Fargo FACT Competition

Additional Information

Prakhar Agrawal’s Websites:

• My Blog

Prakhar Agrawal’s Interests:

High Performance Computing, Parallel Processing, Algorithms, Network Security, Entrepreneurship

Prakhar Agrawal’s Groups:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), IEEE Compter Society, CSI (Computer Society of India), Microsoft Student Partners, BITS Pilani Students

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Microsoft Student Partners.
•    OpenSolaris
•    Indian Startups
•    BITS -Pilani Group
•    Fedora
•    ACM Members
•    freed.in
•    The Indus Entrepreneur
•    FOSS Professionals
•    High Performance Computing (HPC).
•    Wells Fargo

Prakhar Agrawal’s Honors:

First ever MSP from BITS-Pilani
Wells Fargo FACT Program Winner
NTSE -2003 Scholar (AIR-398)

Prakhar Agrawal’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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