Suhas Prakash

Suhas Prakash

Graduate Student at Columbia University

Greater New York City Area

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Education
  • Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • National Institute of Engineering
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Suhas Prakash’s Summary

Software/Systems Developer, Web Programmer, and Lead Designer in a wide variety of Software Applications and Systems. Seeking Software/Systems Development opportunities that will challenge and utilize my education, experience, and abilities.

Expertise in Software/Systems development
• Strong skills in programming and analyzing root cause of system and network issues
• Gained Operating Systems and Networking knowledge through both industry and academia
• Hands-on experience in all phases of the SDLC
• A sincere, self-motivated team player willing to own additional responsibilities
• Proven ability to adapt to new technologies

Suhas Prakash’s Specialties:

• Programming : C, C++, Java, Python, WebMethods
• Operating System : Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Minix3, Maemo Linux - Nokia, Google Android, Cisco IOS
• Network Tools : Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, NS-2.33, Qualnet, NAM
• Protocols : TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, 802.11, 802.16e
• Web: XML, HTML, Apache, WAMP, PHP, WYSIWYG layout tools

Suhas Prakash’s Experience

  • Graduate Student

    Columbia University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

    • Teaching Assistant - Fall 09 - Networking Laboratory

    • Teaching Assistant - Summer 09 - Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in JAVA

    • Layer 2 Handover performance analysis and Enhancement in IEEE 802.16e standard with Prof. Gil Zussman (Jan. 2009 to Jun. 2009)
    - Analysed the Performace of L2 handovers across various Mobility Scenarios
    - Suggested and Implemented enhancements - Circularity, IM - drop and measured performace increase.
    Tools used: NS-2, BonnMotion

    • Projects in Network Security under Prof.Steven Bellovin (Jan. 2009 to May 2009)
    - Worked on concepts of Authentication and Authorisation in Networks (Certificates)
    - Developed a Secure Chat System using the CBC AES cipher
    - Simulated a packet level network filter and packet generator

    • WHIM Project under Prof. Gail Kaiser (Jan. 2009 to May 2009)
    - Designed developed and Implemented a Mashup Search engine for Adaptive Job Search using GMaps API

    • Research under Prof. Henning Schulzrinne (Aug. 2008 to Dec. 2008)
    Developed 7DS for NOKIA mobile internet devices
    -7DS enables mobile devices to discover each other and communicate even in the absence of a global
    connection such as Internet or cellular network
    - Technology used for 7DS and BonAHA involved service discovery, particularly using mDNS, DNS-SD, Avahi
    and Apple's Bonjour implementation - Implemented a Zeroconf service discovery application in Python on Nokia N810

    • VoIP Project under Prof. Henning Schulzrinne (Aug. 2008 to Dec. 2008)
    Designed and Developed a SIP Instant Messenger for Google Android
    - Analysed the SIP stack implementations MJSIP and JAIN SIP on the Android OS
    - Developed a SIP Instant Messenger for Google Android
    - Analysed the SIP stack implementations MJSIP and JAIN SIP on the Android OS
    - Implemented specifications from RFC 3261 and RFC 3428

    • Teaching Assistant - Fall 08
    Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in JAVA

  • Research Assistant

    Indian Institute of Science

    (Educational Institution; Research industry)

    January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)

    Indian Institute of Science - Networks Simulation Lab - Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering (Bangalore, Spring 2008)

    • Developed Network Simulation of Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks in Qualnet and Matlab.
    • Simulated the DISCRIT Algorithm and an implementation of the GRAB Algorithm on the Application layer and the Network Layer
    • Designed an Algorithm for Asynchronous Sleep Wake Cycle in Wireless Sensor Networks which targeted Energy efficiency of a deployed Wireless Sensor Network field

  • Software Engineer/Developer

    Hewlett-Packard

    (Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

    June 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 8 months)

    Hewlett-Packard (ISO) (Bangalore, India and Herrenberg, Germany 2006-2008)

    • Developed solutions for HP B2B Integration hub to connect different application across companies
    • OIS Order Integration Suite - OIS is a future architecture being developed by HP for handling and routing orders for its worldwide operations
    • DCC - Data Center Consolidation

  • Systems Technology Intern

    Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

    (Public Company; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

    January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)

    Hewlett-Packard (Systems Technology and Software Development division) (Bangalore, Spring 2006)

    • Developed a GPRS Network Simulator
    • Developed a network level GPRS simulator using the Kernel tool IPtables/IPfilter. Presented a solution for the simulation of GPRS traffic and the network characteristics of GPRS in a wired network
    • This tool provided Network Engineers access to the network parameters of the GPRS network which was not provided by any other simulation tool

Suhas Prakash’s Education

  • Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

    MS , Computer Science , 2008 — 2009

    Specializing in Network Systems

    Relevant Coursework: Operating Systems, Network Security, Networking Lab, Intrusion Detection Systems, Wireless and Mobile Networks, VOIP Security, Web Enhanced Information Management

    Activities and Societies:
    ACM, IRT, EGSC, SETI

  • National Institute of Engineering

    BE , Computer Science , 2002 — 2006

    First Class with Distinction, Top 1% of the class.

    Relevant Coursework: Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Mobile Communication Systems, Analysis of
    Algorithms, Software Engineering

    Projects:

    Multilevel Indexing Using B-Trees:
    Built a BTREE multilevel index for the student records which not only makes many record operations like insertion, deletion - very convenient but also provides a very high efficient searching method.
    Description:
    § Created a BTREE index to the records and performed insertion, deletion, merging, promotion and redistribution of the records
    § Demonstrated access of any record in the file by traversing the B-TREE, level of collapse, space utilization of the records

    Database Management Project:
    Complete management of a Blood Bank. The project involved managing the Donor and Patient details, available stock and facility to generate reports for individual donors as well as various reports for stock availability and other blood bank organizations.

    Activities and Societies:
    ACE, NIE-Cultural

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Suhas Prakash’s Groups:

ACM, IEEE

  •    Columbia University in the City of New York
  •    Python Community
  •    Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
  •    Wireless Jobs
  •    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
  •    The UNIX and Linux Forums Users
  •    VijayaHighSchool Alumni
  •    The Linux Foundation
  •    Linux Expert
  •    Columbia University Alumni Network
  •    HP
  •    VTU Alumni
  •    SPIC MACAY Alumni
  •    Google Android
  •    NIE Alumni
  •    Columbia Engineering Alumni Association
  •    IISc Alumni Group
  •    Music Professionals
  •    VisualCV
  •    maemo.org
  •    The Ivy League
  •    Ivy Referral Network (IRN)
  •    Snort-Users
  •    Columbia Referral Network (CRN)
  •    SETI at Columbia: Society for Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation
  •    '09 Grads
  •    Europe Jobs Network
  •    USA Jobs Network
  •    IRN-International
  •    The Blog Zone - A community for serious bloggers
  •    IRN-UK
  •    IRN-SF

Suhas Prakash’s Honors:

- Awarded Merit Seat - 80% tuition waiver during all four years of undergraduate education at National Institute of Engineering, India - Awarded to top 10% of the students
- Consistently in the top 1% of students in my undergraduate class

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