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