ASIM SHANKAR	
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(217)-721-4494                                      510 E White St. #14 
shankar@uiuc.edu                                    Champaign, IL 61820
                                           http://www.uiuc.edu/~shankar
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OBJECTIVE
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Seeking full-time software development position starting after 5/2005

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
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o M.S. in Computer Science (Expected May 2005)
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Current CGPA = 3.95/4.00

o B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering 
  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
  Graduated in May 2003 with a CGPA of 3.3/4.0

EXPERIENCE
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VERITAS Software, Mountain View, CA. Summer intern - 2002, 2003, 2004

LOG ANALYSIS (2004) 
o Designed a framework to aid in root cause analysis of failures that
  have causally related log entries in multiple application and OS
  subsystems 
o Implemented a generic log parsing facility and temporal and
  context-sensitive correlation of log entries 
o Created a prototype for the correlation engine, GUI and correlation
  specification language 
o This tool is intended for use by Customer Support and Engineering in
  analyzing field escalations

REGULAR EXPRESSION ENGINE (2004)
o Enhanced the Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library to
  allow it to match patterns spread over non-contiguous memory buffers 
o To be used in an in-kernel regular expression engine for deep-packet
  inspection of HTTP packets
o Required quick understanding of PCRE code, implemented in a week

SIMULATOR FOR VERITAS CLUSTER SERVER (VCS) (2002) 
o VCS is VERITAS' high-availability system for enterprise applications 
o I developed a simulator which allows a 32-node cluster to be
  simulated on a stand-alone machine
o Simulator now shipped with VCS and used for marketing demos,
  training, "what-if" analysis and debugging
o Project required understanding VCS architecture and enhancing it
  with a simulator design that reused core engine logic modules

PROTOTYPE FOR NEXT GENERATION VCS (2003)
o Next generation VCS moves from a homogeneous, replicated-state to a
  heterogeneous, client-server model
o I developed a prototype which was demonstrated on a 128-node cluster
  of both Windows and Linux
o The prototype has since turned into a committed project

UNIVERSITY PROJECTS
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DISTRIBUTED SCALABLE JAVA OPERATING SYSTEM (DSJOS) 
(RESEARCH ASSISTANT)
o DSJOS is a distributed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that provides
  applications a shared-memory view of a cluster
o Implemented modules to migrate threads and internal structures
  between nodes that act as a single JVM
o With this we are now focusing on dynamic load-balancing and cluster
  membership protocols

POWER-AWARE STORAGE CACHE MANAGEMENT
o Designed and simulated a power-aware storage cache management
  algorithm along with another student
o Simulations showed up to a 14% decrease in disk energy consumption
  in large storage systems
o Work was published in the 18th annual International Conference on
  Supercomputing (ICS'04) 

3D TRAJECTORY GENERATION (UNDERGRADUATE THESIS)
o The goal of this project was to generate 3D trajectories of actors
  in a video sequence
o Consisted of face detection (using neural-networks and
  Haar-features) followed by mean-shift tracking
o Camera parameters used to convert the (x,y) and scale of face in the
  image to real world (x,y,z)

USER-LEVEL PROCESS RESTARTING
o Developed a user-level system for restarting a Linux process 
o Check-pointing done by forcing a core dump
o The program to be restarted required no modifications

NEURAL NETWORK LIBRARY
o Designed and implemented a general-purpose library for various
  neural network models (in C++)
o This open-source project is now available at
  http://annie.sourceforge.net/

ONLINE ACADEMIC REGISTRATION SYSTEM (OARS)
o Designed and developed a web-service for course registration at IIT
o OARS has now been in active service at the institute for 3 years
o It uses ASP and connects to an Oracle database at the back-end

TECHNICAL SKILLS
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Languages: Proficient and experienced in C/C++, Java
           Experienced with Perl
           Familiarity with Visual Basic, Perl, ASP, many scripting 
           languages

Platforms: Comfortable with both Windows and Unix-based platforms
	   Comfortable with Linux kernel programming, especially the
           networking stack.

Tools & Technologies:  SQL, Java RMI, Java Swing, XML, ANTLR, 
                       User-mode Linux, Visual Studio, gdb


EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
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o Founding member and Treasurer of ACM Chapter at IIT Kanpur
o Student Counselor - Sophomore year 
o Member of the basketball team of IIT Kanpur in 1999, 2000 and 2002
o Established "Information Management" cell for the cultural and
  technology festivals of IIT Kanpur. The cell automated various tasks
  related to hosting teams from other colleges

OTHER NOTES
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o Linux Enthusiast -- Enjoy experimenting with kernel patches, tools,
  utilities and distributions
o Quick learner --  Can easily pick-up technical skills and techniques that
  I am not currently familiar with

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