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Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Growing my group, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company
Tags:
geocontent, Travel, web 2.0
Schools:
Indian Institute of Technology, University of California System - Davis
Twaller is a travel micro guide which aims to bring travelers with real-time, relevant, categorized information and updates from fellow travelers.
Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Prototyping
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Sun Microsystems
Position:
Member of Technical Staff
Time period:
March 2007 - Present
Description:
Work with the Performance and Applications Engineering (PAE) at Sun Microsystems. My job responsibilities have been to investigate and improve the performance of Solaris/Open Solaris on Sun's x86 and CMT platforms. I have worked on: 10 Gigabit Network I/O performance for improved throughput, latency, and CPU efficiency.Specweb 2005 benchmark for improved benchmark numbers on x86 platforms.Crypto algorithms performance on x86 platforms.
Employer:
Los Alamos National Labs
Position:
Graduate Student Researcher
Time period:
August 2004 - October 2004
Description:
Worked with the RADIANT research group in the Computational Sciences Division. Worked on transport protocols for high-speed networks and investigated bandwidth scheduling algorithms for backbone optical networks (Lambda Grids).
Employer:
Networks Lab, UC Davis
Position:
Research Assistant
Time period:
July 2003 - March 2007
Description:
As part of my research I have worked with transport protocols (TCP/UDP) and their variants, performance evaluation and optimization of network protocols, broadband optical access networks (specifically the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON)),
Discrete Event Simulation Models and Tools, Queuing Network Models, Traffic Modeling, and Quality of Service (QoS) issues in networks.
Employer:
Tavant Technologies
Position:
Software Engineer
Time period:
June 2000 - July 2002
Description:
Was responsible for the catalog and inventory management software in the Tavant MultiChannelTM product, which was successfully deployed for various divisions of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE: IR). Gained experience in designing Web-Based Transaction Applications (e.g., Amazon, eBay) on the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) architecture.
Employer:
Analog Devices India
Position:
Summer Intern
Time period:
May 1999 - July 1999
Description:
Designed test modules for the Serial Peripheral Interface of Analog Devices DSP chip. The test modules were developed in C and Verilog.
EDUCATION
University:
University of California System - Davis
Time period:
2006
Degree:
Computer Science, PhD
University:
Indian Institute of Technology
Time period:
2000
Degree:
Electrical Engineering,, BEng
PUBLICATIONS
Papers:
Number of conference and journal papers in high-speed networks and performance.
Twaller
