Vivek Garg

Current

• Software Design Engineer at Microsoft

Past

• Graduate Research Intern at KAI Labs (Intel)
• Software Engineer at US Interactive ( formerly Softplus)

Education

• Texas A&M University
• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

Connections

72 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Vivek Garg’s Summary

I am currently working on search technologies at Microsoft under "Live" Umbrella. I believe that search is radically changing the way we consume, share and create information around the world. My interests are currently vested in enabling information search using structured/entity web. With Microsoft, I have helped ship live search books (books.live.com) and live search academic (academic.live.com). Before live, I worked with Office 2007 for couple of years.

With "Live" I have come full circle. I started developing internet services after my undergrad. During undergrad, I played with internet startups during y2k. I developed internet software for telecom domain before I went for my masters. During masters, among other things, I worked on a campus startup to develop a sales CRM and worked with economic research lab developing games for economic equilibriums. With Microsoft Office, I got my experience with desktop software before giving in to the agility and fast pace development enviroment of Live Internet services.

Vivek Garg’s Specialties:

software design and development, execution of software product/services from inception to the end. "ship it" is the mantra when it comes to software.

Vivek Garg’s Experience

• Software Design Engineer

  Microsoft

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

  June 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  Currently working with Live search selection developing a structured data search solution.
  
  Worked with Live search Books & Academic search - data storage & processing across distribute file system, index generation, indexing and searching within petabytes of data.
  
  Worked with Line services and Page table services to help ship math layout engine (similar to Latex) with Microsoft Office 2007. for eg. it enables linear and display math features oif Word 2007

• Graduate Research Intern

  KAI Labs (Intel)

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

  June 2003 — August 2003 (3 months)

  Ported various applications (MPEG & H.261 encoder) and wrote new ones to test the Cluster OpenMP system extensively. Performance testing and evaluation of the system using these applications on NCSA’s IA64 cluster.

• Software Engineer

  US Interactive ( formerly Softplus)

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  Did lot of different roles with USIT around EAI, application integration for telecom domain. Worked with China Light and Power in Hong Kong and Via .Net in UK to develop internet facing customer & partner view of integrated CRM, billing and fulfilling applications. lot of java, oracle, weblogic , j2ee etc. Onsite technical consultant for projects in HK and UK.

Vivek Garg’s Education

• Texas A&M University

  Masters, Computer Science, 2002 — 2004

  Masters degree project: Developed a prototype for Peer to Peer Backup and Restore System using PASTRY protocol as its underlying p2p substrate. Used content based indexing and convergent encryption scheme for replicating data securely among peers.

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

  Bachelors, Computer Science and Engineering, 1996 — 2000

Additional Information

Vivek Garg’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Vivek Garg’s Interests:

software development life cycle, scrum, finance options and derivatives, search technologies, enterpreneurs, startups, india internet, reading non fiction, squash, xbox live gaming, hiking and camping

Vivek Garg’s Groups:

disucssion about india internet at http://ileher.com

•    NIT (National Institute of Technology) Alumni
•    REC-NIT Alumni

Vivek Garg’s Honors:

Winner - 2004 Business Idea Competition at May Business school (TAMU)
Finalist - 2003 Business Idea Competition at May Business school (TAMU)
Finalist - 4th annual Babcock Elevator competition, Wake Forest University Graduate School of Management.

2002 fall Computer Science Dept. Sholarship, Texas A&M University

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