AKSHAY SURVE

+91-9819319609

B4/73 Pearl Society - Behind Oshiwara Weigh Bridge, Goregaon (west). - Mumbai, Maharashtra 400104 - India
akshay.surve@gmail.com
http://www.akshaysurve.com

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

SocialSync, Telecommuting

July 2007 - Present
Founder, Lead Developer
  • Architect a scalable distributed online platform to manage web identities of organizations and build a layer of social networking features and services around it.
  • Keywords: Linux, PHP/MySQL

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Pinstorm Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

July 2006 - June 2007
Lead Developer
  • Involved in conceptualization, design and development of SEM tools to aid business processes viz. keyword biding, campaign tracking and analyzing campaign trends.
  • Keywords: Linux, Apache, PHP/MySQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL/Stored Procedures, Subversion, Trac

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SKILLS 
  • Web Programming: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, CodeIgniter, JSP, ASP, XML, SOAP, REST
  • DBMS: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS Access
  • Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic
  • Web Development: HTML/XHTML, CSS, Blueprint CSS
  • Web Designing Tools: Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash
  • Platforms: GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows, Unix

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OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS 
SocialPress: A set of plugins for Wordpress MU and a layer above it that adds social networking features to it.
  • Status: Ongoing.

Qikblogger: A PHP/MySQL multi-user multi-blog engine with support for permalinks, tagging, web syndication and customized themes with more than 1300 downloads.
  • Keywords: GNU/GPL, PHP/MySQL
  • Project Info: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qikblogger
  • Live Installations:
  • http://blogs.greenbush.us/
  • http://www.blog.ht/

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ACADEMIC PROJECTS 
UFeedRevs: User Feeds Relevant Results is an approach for increasing the relevancy of search results by incorporating user feedback. Developed a prototype named feedee.
  • Keywords: PHP/MySQL, NuSOAP, Google Search API.
  • Project URL: http://www.akshaysurve.com/projects/ufeedrevs/
  • Prototype: http://feedee.dbit.in/

CRMProbe: A CRM Application developed for a telemarketing firm, which allows maintaining leads, generating follow-ups, reports, analysis tools and a loyalty program.
  • Keywords: Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access
  • Project URL: http://www.akshaysurve.com/projects/crmprobe/

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VOLUNTARY PROJECTS 
anonimity.net: It is a one of its kind testbed for anonymity on the web with comments, tagcloud and a postflood build in 48 hours during the Rails Rumble.
  • Keywords: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, nginx, Mongrel, Recaptcha, Capistrano, actsastaggable
  • Project URL: http://www.akshaysurve.com/projects/anonimity-net/

Mars: A planetplanet.org like feed reader with multi-user multi-planet support. Also features easy configuration, themes, caching and Ajax UI. Developed as a part of Pune Ruby hackathon in 24 hours.
  • Keywords: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ajax Scaffold
  • Project URL: http://mars.rubyforge.org/

DyCI: A Dynamic Content Ingine to provide multiple content feeds with support for web syndication.
  • Keywords: PHP/MySQL, RSS
  • Live Installations: http://www.dbit.in

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WEB DESIGN PROJECTS 
  • SocialSync: http://socialsync.in/
  • Kshana - Non-profit organization: http://www.kshana.org/
  • Don Bosco Maritime Institute: http://www.dbma.in/
  • Don Bosco Institute of Technology: http://dbit.in/

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PUBLICATIONS 
"Optimizing Web Search Engines Performance using User Feedback", Surve A., Shah M, Tripathy A. - International Conference on Business and Information (BAI) 2007

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AWARDS 
  • Was chosen the Silver Hacker at Pune Rails Hackathon for Mars, July 2006
  • Won 1st Prize for Qikblogger as the Best E-Commerce Application at IEEE360'06 Inter college technical festival
  • UFeedRevs was awarded 2nd Prize as the Best Project Idea at IEEE360'06 Inter college technical festival
  • Secured 1st Prize in Software Development for CRMProbe at IDeas'05& and 2nd Prize at Mosiac'04 & and Encore'04 Technical festivals
  • Won 1st Prize in Inter College Technical Web Designing Competitions at IEEE 360'06, Rezonance'06, Praxis'05, Technozonva'05, CResCEndo'05, Mosaic'05, IDeas'05, IEEE 360, Rezonance'05, Tsunami'04, IRIS'04, Nirmaan'04 & ISAAC'04.
  • Secured 2nd Prize in 'Computer Quiz' organized by the DBIT ACM Students' Chapter, July 2004

Inter College competitions were conducted under the aegis of IEEE and/or CSI (Computer Society of India

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WORKSHOPS 
  • Presented a talk on 'Software Engineering and Ruby on an Agile Rails Journey' at Short Term Training Programme conducted by Indian Society for Technical Education. (2007)
  • Presented a talk on 'TagSurfer - A hybrid TagCloud' at BarCamp Mumbai (2006)
  • Conducted workshops related to Web Designing (XHTML/HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver) which have benefited more than 300 people at various colleges. (2004- 2007)

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HONORS 
  • Chairperson of CSI DBIT Students' Chapter (2004-05) Activities
  • Chair of the Technical Committee for IDeas'05 the CSI Annual Students' National Convention (March 2005)
  • Member of DUCS (DBIT Undergrad Computer Society), a volunteer technical society specializing in conceptualizing and carrying out various hi-technology projects. Projects involved software development, integration, lab design, etc.

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OTHER ACTIVITIES 
  • Active member of Kshana, an NGO, which organizes entertainment programs for the underprivileged.
  • Overall rank 512 in Half Marathon at Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2006
  • Organized and lead many treks in the Sahyadris mountain ranges (India).
  • Completed the 10-day course of Vipassana Meditation at Vipassana International Academy in Igatpuri.

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EDUCATION 

Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai, 2003 - 2006

BE in Computer Engineering, 3.75 - 3.95 (69%) Grade Point Average

 

Bombay Institute of Technology, Mumbai, 2000 - 2003

Diploma in Computer Technology, 3.5 - 3.7 (73%) Grade Point Average

 

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