Siddharth Singhal
Information Technology graduate from Delhi College of Engineering. Currently working as a R&D Software Engineer at Gemalto Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Engineering |
| Groups: | Global Entrepreneurship Week , NUS Entrepreneurship Society |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Gemalto Pte. Ltd., Singapore |
| Position: | R&D Software Engineer |
| Time period: | June 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Working with the Financial Services Team. |
| Employer: | National Informatics Centre |
| Position: | Research Intern |
| Employer: | Academic and Hobby Projects |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | Nov’07 – Jul’08
Developed an embedded system to be deployed in river water and sewer networks, named JAL based on the theme “Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment”. Organizers and Sponsors: Microsoft, British Telecom,UNESCO. Sept’07 – Dec’08 (BE Minor Project) Web based project on ‘Mining user interest pattern from social networks’. Oct’07 – Dec’07 (Shelved) Designing a web based application aimed at providing a better platform for studying, sharing, indexing, rating and arranging study materials. Code Named STUDY. • Studied bio-inspired algorithms for the suggesting and rating features. • Submitted at Google Product Prodigy ’07. Nov'06 – Aug’07 Developed an embedded solution INDRIYAAN based on the theme “Technology enables better education for all”. Organizers and Sponsors: Microsoft, British Telecom. Jan’07 – Feb’07 Designed and built an autonomous robot DECIPHER, capable of character recognition and dynamic path planning. The project was a makeover of a land robot, developed one year before as a hobby project. |
| Employer: | National Physical Laboratory (N.P.L.), New Delhi |
| Position: | Research Intern |
| Time period: | October 2006 - December 2006 |
| Description: | • Researched various embedded OSes that could be deployed on Atmel ATmega series microcontrollers
• Developed specific applications on the selected RTOS and modified certain parts of kernel code as required by the specifications required. |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | “Design and Development of an Autonomous Aerial Reconnaissance System”
Technical paper accepted at the AUVSI Symposium ‘07 UAV Systems Elektronica, leading Swedish magazine Jan ‘07 |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | • Have been a swimmer at school as well as state level. Won medals for free style sprints, free style relays, breaststroke sprints and water polo. |
| Memberships: | • Member of the Art of living Foundation, founded by H.H. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar. Completed the YES!+, YES!++ and DSN courses.
• Member of the Execomm ’06-‘07, the executive committee of the IEEE-DCE, Delhi chapter. |
| Awards: | • Continuous recipient of the Scholar’s Badge, and a gown for Academic excellence.
• Got constant distinctions in academic tests, by University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. • Qualified international general awareness test conducted by UN (United Nations). • Qualified several regional and national mathematics Olympiads. • Won the First prize in a use of plastics analysis contest and debate conducted by Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment (ICPE). • Selected among the Top-15 worldwide, consecutively for two years in Microsoft Imagine Cup ’08,’07– Embedded Invitational. Project presented at worldwide finals held at Paris and Seoul respectively. • Won a gold medal for the Best student academic project ’08 by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services). • Won the 1st prize in Radix, DaCrytex ‘07, the only robotics competition ever held in India for character recognition. Sponsor: Freescale Semiconductors. • Received special appreciation award by N.S.I.C., India (National Small Industry Corporation Limited) and appreciation by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. • At Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC)’07, held at Fort Benning, GA, USA.: o The only team from Asia to get a flying card and conduct a test flight. (till date) o Got special appreciation for the technical presentation and the team effort. Won an honorable mention for the best team T-shirt design. |
Siddharth's Startups (2)
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INDRIYAAN
Indriyaan is driven by innovation and technology, requires minimum infrastructure and is ready to implement yet no boundaries impede it. Primarily aimed at Rural and blind education
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Greenway Ecodevlopment
Greenway Ecodevlopment is a cleantech startup changing the world by structuring investment ready projects in the areas of renewable energy, low carbon technology implementation and water.
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Rajan Vaish
CS PhD student at the University of California.
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Sparsh Gupta
Indian, 23, MSc in Computer Science at Oxford University
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Marc Guerrero
Marc Guerrero is a writer & journalist, editor & translator, historian & futurist, and media management entrepreneur for many years.