Résumé of Mukund Sivaraman

Computational skills

• Programming languages: C, Java, PHP, x86 assembly language
  Software: GNU compiler collection, standard C library, Sun's J2SE SDK, NetBeans, NASM x86 assembler
• UNIX programming environment: POSIX OSes such as Linux, BSDs, Solaris, Mac OS X; IPC, TCP/IP socket programming, multi-threaded programming, regular expressions, GUI programming and computer graphics
  Software: GNU Make, Ant, GDB debugger, Data Display Debugger, Binutils, gprof profiler, Sysprof, Valgrind, KCacheGrind (Callgrind), strace; CVS, Subversion, Git, Trac, Bugzilla and ViewCVS (use and administration); GObject, GLib, Cairo, GTK+, gettext, GD graphics library, pslib, PDFLib, GMP arithmetic library, OpenSSL, libcurl, libavcodec/libavformat
• Documentation tools: DocBook, plain TeX and LaTeX, Javadoc, Doxygen; Dia, Inkscape, GIMP
• Web programming: XHTML, CSS, CGI, forms, cookies, sessions, JavaScript, AJAX
  Software: Servlets, Velocity, DWR, Apache httpd and Tomcat (use and administration), mod_jk, mod_php
• Data sources: XML, DOM, relational DB design and normalization, SQL; XML-RPC
  Software: libxml, Berkeley DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL (use and administration), JDBC, MySQL Connector/J
• Data compression algorithms: LZ77, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, range coding, Markov process models, prediction by partial matching, DEFLATE algorithm (used in gzip and PNG), Burrows-Wheeler transform (used in bzip2), JPEG (YUV conversion, DCT, quantization, entropy encoding using static and dynamic Huffman or arithmetic coding tables)
• Bioinformatics: FASTA, GenBank, PDB file formats; restriction maps; basic programming experience with sequence alignment, hidden Markov models
• Linux administration tools: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, TCP/IP tools (net-tools, iputils, tcpdump, Wireshark), RPM (writing .spec files, building RPMs), provisioning and large scale cluster deployment using Anaconda, LVS clustering and Piranha, SMTP and IMAP (Sendmail, qmail, dovecot, ClamAV, Spamassassin), NFS, CIFS (Samba), LDAP (OpenLDAP), Jabber/XMPP (jabberd), DNS (djbdns, BIND), process accounting, Bash shell scripting, etc.

Academic education

M. Sc. in Computer Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.
1998–2000

• Relevant courses: computer algorithms, automaton, operating systems, principles of programming languages, computer networks, database management systems, object-oriented systems, software engineering, computer graphics, communication skills
• Projects completed: content indexer and search engine in C++, TFTP revision 2 (RFC 1350) server in C, HTTP/1.0 (RFC 1945) protocol subset server in JavaGraduated in “First Class” with 79% grade-point average
• Other items: Was selected as Mr. Fresher after entering university; received first ‘S’ grade (greater than ‘A’ grade) in 6 years from the reader, for a network programming project; #1 in inter-university music competition; was among 8 selected by HCL-Cisco from almost 350 students on first day of recruitment

B. Sc. in Computer Science, Loyola Academy, Hyderabad, India.
1995–1998

• Relevant courses: data structures and algorithms, artificial intelligence, numerical methods, system simulation, statistics, discrete mathematics, operations research, operating systems, principles of programming languages, compiler design, data communication, computer networks, database management systems, software engineering, computer organization, digital electronics, microprocessors and interfacing, computer graphics, accounting and financial methods
• Projects completed: question bank system in Object Pascal for the University Grants Commission (a pilot project), an indexed-sequential access database library in C, Die Hard 2 virus scanner and cleaner in x86 assembly language (widely used on campus at the time), various VGA demos in x86 assembly language
• Graduated with “Distinction” with 76% cumulative average
• Other items: was class representative; captained team and won basketball tournament; #1 in college music competition

Work experience

Software engineer, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., India.
June 2007–Present

• Worked as a Windows kernel driver programmer for SMB/CIFS network filesystem inband virtualization
• Implemented inband virtualization of open file related information such as rangelocks, oplocks, modified regions tracking during migration of data so that files can be migrated among filers while open handles are held and used by client applications without any disruption of service

Software engineer, Lulu Inc., United Kingdom.
October 2006–April 2007

• Worked as a contractor for Lulu.com—a book self-publishing service (web development), working on card payments and various bug fixes
• Developed patches for extending functionality of Pure-FTPd in C
• Worked on an application called Gum similar to iTunes for CC-licensed content in C and GObject (the OO library used in GTK+ applications)
• Created an internationalized website using J2EE which picks up the user's country automatically and presents it in their localised language; added support for accounts and sessions, Ajax support, schema for the database
• Optimized the Value Invert GIMP plug-in cutting the execution time to under 50%
• Implemented the Rearrange Colormap GIMP plug-in in C to shuffle colours in an image's palette without modifying the look of an image
• Implemented largest-rectangle auto-crop algorithm for affine transformations in C for GIMP
• Improved handling of incomplete PNG files in C for GIMP
• Improved support for multi-page TIFF files in C for GIMP
• Added libcurl based HTTP URL loader in C to GIMP
• Fixed many GIMP bugs

Project manager & software engineer, Xinit Systems Limited, United Kingdom.
July 2001–June 2006

• Designed and developed the Openfiler open source storage management system which runs on Linux—this involved bringing various network filesystem protocols and network directory protocols to work together along with unified authentication and authorization, and solving various issues which arose due to the wide-range requirements of an enterprise from such a heterogeneous system; widely used worldwide
• Developed custom functionality and extensions to several programs in C for integrating them with Openfiler including parted, Samba, mod_ftpd, PHP, IET iSCSI target and LVM2
• Developed raster graphics color-space conversion library functions in C for GIMP
• Added EXIF thumbnail read/write support for JPEG images in C for GIMP
• Developed the MNG file-format plug-in in C for GIMP
• Fixed x86 MMX routines in GIMP
• Fixed other GIMP bugs
• Added ffmpeg libavcodec/libavformat input support in C for x264 (a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder)
• Implemented several statistical functions in C++ for OpenOffice.org office suite's Calc spread-sheet application; received a prize from Novell, Inc. and The GNOME Foundation for it
• Designed and specified the internal system order process, which has become the central system around which the company functions; designed and developed a software system to manage the process; used every day internally

Software engineer, Models Direct, United Kingdom.
October 2000–April 2001

• Worked as a contractor and developed an internationalized website

Student intern in a team during M. Sc., Nihar Infoway Limited, India.
January 2000–June 2000

• Implemented basic web-based email software
• Implemented an IRC (RFC 1459) system with patches to an existing ircd server for authentication off a database
• Audited SourceForge.net's site source code for security vulnerabilities
• Developed a fingerd daemon (RFC 1288) for SourceForge.net to provide information about registered users and their projects; this is now distributed as a part of the GForge Collaborative Development Environment
• Developed Conic Planet—a web-based planetary viewer

Other information

• Work clearance: Indefinite leave to remain (permanent residence permit) in the UK
• Sports: Basketball, Cricket, Chess, beginner in Go
• Music: Guitar player and a beginner on keyboards
• Membership: ACM, IEEE Computer Society
• I like meeting people, reading, breaking stuff and experimenting, music and movies