ADITYA VARUN CHADHA | adichad@gmail.com | Resume OBJECTIVE: To architect and build useful, resilient, agile and elegant software systems for the most complex problems in applied computing, for every step forward in that journey is exhilaration. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: Graduate Education (2004-2006) Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India Degree Program: Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering CGPA: 8.0/10.0 Undergraduate Education (1999-2003) Institution: Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, USA Degree Program: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with minor in Mathematics CGPA (CS): 3.70/4.00 CGPA (overall): 3.34/4.00 School Education (1985-1999) Institution: Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi Board: CBSE Class X %age: 89.0% Class XII %age: 79.0% (Science stream, 98% in Computer Science) Standardized Test Scores GRE (general) - 2002 Quantitative: 800 Verbal: 570 Analytical: 5.0/6.0 GATE (Computer Science) - 2004 Rank: 387 Percentile: 98.87 TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY: * Conceptual Areas: Data Structures, Algorithms, O. O. Design, A.I., Distributed Computing * Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, Lisp, Perl * Distributed Systems: Java RMI * IDEs: Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse * Databases: Oracle 8i, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MySQL, MS-Access * Data-warehousing: Informatica, Business Objects, SSIS, SSAS * Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux, Solaris, DOS * Internet: HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, JSP, PHP, ASP.NET, WPF HONORS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES: * Appreciation for Dev Community Contributions, Microsoft, Hyderabad (2008) * Second Place, Group Discussion, EBusinessware, Inc., Gurgaon (2003) * Second Place, Essay Competition, EBusinessware, Inc., Gurgaon (2003) * Award for Outstanding Performance, Dept. of Computer Science, Morehouse College (2003) * Second Place, Programming Contest, Division Two - ACM Southeast USA Region (2001) * Third Place, Programming Contest, Division Two - ACM Southeast USA Region (2002) * First Place, Computer Science Olympiad, Spelman College (2003) * First Place, Programming Contest, Atlanta University Center (2001) * Full Academic Scholarship, Morehouse College (Fall 1999 - Spring 2003) * Best Computer Programmer, Modern School, India (1998 - 1999) * Excellence in Organizational Ability, Modern School, India (1998 - 1999) * Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) EXPERIENCE: Full Time ~~~~~~~~~ Senior Software Engieer, Info Edge India Ltd. (Naukri.com) - NOIDA, National Capital Region, India (04/08 - present) Project: Search Platform Development for Naukri.com Architecture, Design and Development of the Search Platform for Naukri.com, Innovation and Implementation of various Web 2.0 applications in the recruitment domain using Open Source technologies (LAMP). Routinely maintaining, analyzing and productizing India's largest resume database. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft India(R&D) Pvt. Ltd. - Hyderabad, A.P., India (10/06 - 04/08) Project: Enterprise Data Warehouse Design and development of ETL processes for data warehouse applications serving Microsoft’s Enterprise Services business. Technologies used include SQL Server 2005/2008, SQL Server Analysis Services, .NET framework 2.0 (C#). Key contributions include innovations like code generation wizard that standardizes significant portions of development work for ETL processes, zero bug delivery of key components of Microsoft’s Enterprise Data Warehouse. Proofs of Concepts Delivered/Presented: * Remodeling Microsoft’s Enterprise Services Warehouse using the Data Vault paradigm * Development of a data mining proof of concept for predictive analysis for enhanced decision support in the Enterprise Software Services domain Associate, Technology, Sapient Corp. Pvt. Ltd. - Gurgaon, Haryana, India (2/04 - 7/04) Re-design and implementation of the Customers, Hotels aspects of Opodo.com Data-warehouse; activities included designing and implementing ETL strategies using Informatica, schema re-design (to snowflake schema), and report design and generation using Business Objects. Software Developer, EBusinessware, Inc. - Gurgaon, Haryana, India (8/03 - 1/04) Development and Maintenance of E-Submissions application for Prudential Insurance using J2EE, VC++, IBM DB2, IBM WAS 5. Responsibilities included mission-critical coding, bug-fixing, version control and documentation. Part Time ~~~~~~~~~ Teaching Assistant, IIT Madras - Chennai, India (8/04 - 6/06) Lab tutoring for Computational Engineering. Helping students develop a programming-oriented approach to problem solving. Duties include tutoring and grading. Research Assistant, Morehouse College - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (9/01 - 5/03) Deployment of the Netsolve Distributed Scientific Computing System at Morehouse, development of educational applications for undergraduate scientific research, and training of students and faculty in the usage of the distributed computing system Database and CampusPipeline Support, Morehouse College - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (5/00 - 5/02) Report building from the student database (Banner project) using MS Access, providing support for the CampusPipeline school e-services system Teaching Assistant, Morehouse College - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (1/00 - 5/00) Tutoring and maintenance of records for students taking the introductory course to Computer Science PROJECTS: Kinetic Data Structures, IIT Madras - Chennai, India (7/05 - 12/05) Developing a generic software library consisting of data structures and algorithms to be used for maintaining and retrieving discrete geometric information on entities in motion. Heuristic Search Planner, IIT Madras - Chennai, India (2/05 - 5/05) A generic planner for the STRIPS specification language, implemented in java using the A* - search paradigm. Heuristic values are extracted via construction of the relaxed plan graph generated from the input problem. Chess Playing Program, IIT Madras - Chennai, India (9/04 - 11/04) A chess playing program implemented in Java using the Alpha-Beta search paradigm with simple heuristics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a course in Artificial Intelligence. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Morehouse College - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (1/03 - 5/03) Research “On the N-Queens problem - Analysis, comparisons and improvements on known algorithms (Theory and Implementation)” in partial fulfillment of requirements for graduation with departmental honors Undergraduate Project, Morehouse College - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (1/03 - 5/03) Development, deployment and testing of a Distributed Scientific Computing System using Java RMI technology; named Best Project of the year. LEADERSHIP: * President, Computer Science Club, Morehouse College (2001 - 2002) * Secretary, Computer Science Club, Morehouse College (2000 - 2001) * Editor / Webmaster, International Students’ Organization, Morehouse College (2000 - 2001) * Recording Secretary, International Students’ Organization, Morehouse College (1999 - 2000) * Captain, Programming Team, Modern School, New Delhi, India (1998 - 1999) * Secretary, Computer Club, Modern School (1998 - 1999) CONTACT INFORMATION: Name: Aditya Varun Chadha Permanent Address: I-39, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi-110014, India Current Address: I-39, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi-110014, India Telephone: +91 9873323839 E-Mail: adichad@gmail.com Website: http://www.adichad.com HOBBIES: Reading, Creative Writing, Music, Cricket, and Cooking REFERENCES: Furnished upon request