Email:   shivam@shivampatel.net
Website: http://shivampatel.net 

Education:

Work Experience:

• June – August 2009
  Bloomberg LP, New York City - Intern
  Interned with the Information Security group. Developed of a workflow management software in C++ using Bloomberg's proprietary 2-tier service oriented model. Wrote code and write-up for an exploit demonstration that was included in Bloomberg’s security training course.
  
  
• September 2009 – present
  CERT, SEI, CMU. - Research Assistant
  
  
  
• July 2006 – July 2008
  Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India - Senior Software Engineer
  Responsibilities included coding, unit testing and deployment of various web based applications for Nationwide Insurance, Ohio, USA.
  Technologies: ASP, ASP.NET, COM, Javascript, HTML
  
  
• March - August 2005
  Infozen Varsity,Lucknow, India - Guest Faculty
  Taught a summer semester class on web application security.
  Class Size: 12 Topics Included: Secure coding practices, ASP.NET, AJAX and MS-SQL server
  
  

Honors, Awards and Acheivements:

• National Talent Search Scholar: Was selected for the prestigious NTSE (National Talent Search Examination) Award and Scholarship in India which is awarded to 750 students across the nation.
  
  
• INI Scholarship: Was awarded a $24K scholarship by Information Networking Institute, CMU.
  
  
• Feather in My Cap: Was awarded the coveted ‘Feather in My Cap’ award by my employer - Wipro Technologies for superlative performance.
  
  
• Microsoft Certified Professional: - Ver 2.0 (MCP ID: 6269132) Passed 070-305 with score 906/1000
  
  

Projects:

• Document Search Engine: Developed a document engine to searh the RCV1 corpus. Implemented Vector Space, Query Likelihood and Indri retrieval algorithms and compared the results using TREC eval format.
  
  
• Kernel: Developed a UNIX like kernel that supports multiple virtual memory address spaces via paging, preemptive multitasking, and a small set of important system calls.
  
  
• Bug-Trak: Developed a software that detects vulnerable code sections in software using code comparison techniques.
  
  
• Device Drivers: Wrote device drivers for console, keyboard and timer for x86 IA32 architecture. Developed a popular game ‘Sokoban’ and integrated it with the drivers to make a kernel that boots up from floppy disk and serves the game.
  
  
• Web Proxy: Developed a cache-enabled multi-threaded web-proxy in C.
  
  
• Dynamic heap storage allocator (malloc): Developed a dynamic heap storage allocator in C using explicit lists. The allocator was optimized for throughput and utilization.
  
  
• Debugging helper library: Developed a debugging helper library ‘traceback’ in C that can print the stack trace of functions in a program by crawling the stack frame by frame.
  
  
• UNIX shell: Developed a limited UNIX shell that supports input-output redirection, processes signals and handles foreground and background jobs.
  
  

Hobby Projects:

• Location Tracer: Developed a web based ‘Location Tracer’ system which allows a user to locate the country (and city, state with some accuracy) of a remote user. Has completed 100,000 traces so far
  
  
• External Authentication for phpBB forums: Wrote script to allow open source phpbb forums to accept external authentication of users. Allows webmasters to integrate phpbb forums with an existing website without a need to create separate accounts.
  
  
• Placement and Alumni websites: Developed the placement website and alumni website for my undergraduate Institute.
  
  

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