Gayathri Ravichandran Geetha

Stony Brook, NY

currently: Job hunting


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How would you describe your dream job in 10 words or less?

To be a part of dynamic software development team in a challenging and rewarding environment.

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Work history

Goldman Sachs June 2007 to August 2007
Summer Analyst

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How would you describe your time at Goldman Sachs?

Skills[C#,ASP.NET,DataAccessFramework]
- Involved in the end to end development of two webform applications.
- Underwriters is an application used by Investment Bankers to maintain and enhance underwriters information. This project included :
- Rewriting legacy underwriters application
- Porting
application from CLR 1.0 to CLR 2.0. Used more sophisticated controls
- Technology conversion (Better security policy, Moved away from strongly typed dataset, reduced usage of ViewState)
- Exception List allows Business unit Managers to grant or revoke access of Banker Profile application to bankers who do not fit in the predefined Senior Banker definition.
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Hewlett Packard August 2005 to August 2006
Software Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Hewlett Packard?

Skills : [HP-UNIX, C, Perl]
- Developed and tested various libIO API's as a member of Core I/O infrastructure team. libIO provides a set of APIs to allow access to the
kernel io tree from user space. It is used by HP utilities such as ioscan, *sf, intctl and ioinit.
- QA (Quality Assurance) of HPUX (UNIX flavor of HP) commands and performance.
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wipro technologies February 2005 to May 2005
Project Intern

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How would you describe your time at wipro technologies?

Skills: [VB, SQL Server, OLE concepts]
- Designed and implemented innovative tool that automated B2B and rental process of the client. The tool continuously monitored thousands of XML transactions between two business systems and ensured the
guaranteed delivery and tracking of these transactions.
- It increased efficiency and accuracy by 85% and saved the company 10 man hours per day.
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Education

stony brook university August 2006 to the present
Masters Computer Science

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How would you describe your time at stony brook university?

Current GPA: 3.880
Graduation Date: Dec 2007
Research Experience
Research Assistant, Algorithms lab, Stony Brook Dec 2006- Present
Professor Steven Skiena, Algorithms lab, Stony Brook [Perl, UNIX, mySQl]
- Designed and developed web crawlers to spider discussion boards (like Yahoo! Finance) and Blogs.
- The spiders make use of various heuristics like content hashing and domain revisiting.
- Enhanced web crawlers for the Textmap project which get information from 500 News Sources.
- Text Map is a search engine for entities like persons and places. It uses NLP techniques to track entity references in news sources and employs a number of statistical tools to analyze relationships between them.[http://www.textmap.org]
Research Study, Applied Logic lab, Stony Brook Sep 06 - Dec 06
[Java, Linux, JRex, Heritrix Crawler, WinAgent, Maven, XML, XPath]
- Enhanced existing Heritrix system by designing and enabling form filling capability.
- Added visual crawling capability by integrating JRex with Heritrix.
- Created Agents of varying complexities for specific sites using WinAgent - a web based personal information assistant, which uses machine learning techniques for extracting and presenting relevant data needed by users.
Selected Academic Projects
ODR (OnDemand Routing Protocol) [C,Unix Datagram sockets, Solaris]
* Developed an On-Demand shortest-hop Routing (ODR) protocol for networks of fixed but arbitrary and unknown connectivity.
Reliable UDP File Transfer [C, Solaris]
* File transfer protocol for Unix platforms, based on UDP, with reliability added to the transfer operation using timeouts, sliding-window mechanisms and flow control.
Compiler tool [C, 8086 Assembly]
* Constructed a Compiler that converts C code into assembly language (80X86).
* Supports a subset of C language like while If-else for and switch case. Recursive descent parsing is used.
Online chat analysis system [Perl,Linux]
* This project involved scraping postings on discussion boards (like Yahoo! Finance) and conducting statistical analysis (reference counts, time series analysis) on the data collected.
* The processed data was used to correlate volume and sentiment scores with stock prices to find meaningful relationships between current stock prices and information in these discussion boards.
Car Accessories System [Apache, Perl, HTML, Oracle]
* Created a CGI Application that allows a user to browse for car accessories online and purchase them by credit card and cheque.
Codeguess - Strategy game [Java]
* Developed a standalone strategy game where the user has to crack the code given by another user or one generated randomly by the computer. Uses Frame Class in Java.
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Bachelors in Computer Science

How would you describe your time at MS Ramaiah Institue of tech...?

First Class with Distinction 80.3% Rank (5/67)

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