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Vivek Ravisankar

Indian, 22, Co-founder, Interviewstreet.com

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://rvivek.com
Industries: Computing, Education
Skills: Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Negotiation, PHP, Public speaking, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development
Next step: Make interviewstreet.com reach to 50 colleges in India!
Location: Chennai, India
Groups: E-challenge Competition 2007, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], [OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE]
Visas: India
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Getting press, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Starting a company, Trading services
Tags: Computer Science, entrepreneur, startup
Schools: National Institute of Technology, Trichy

FEATURED STARTUP

InterviewStreet

InterviewStreet InterviewStreet

An Online Mock Interview System

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Beta

FULL BIO

I have started a startup, interviewstreet.com. It's an online interface for conducting mock interviews enabling candidates to get an experience before they strike the real interview. For professionals, it gives an opportunity to mentor people and get paid for it too!
I worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com. I am interested primarily in the field of algorithms. I have been on the Top 10% of my class and groomed myself into a a well-rounded personality.
I have been the Placement Coordinator for my college for Batch 2008 and successfully achieved the 100% placement record for my batch.
I am a keen follower of what is happening in the industry. I have done a lot of work in different areas of Computer Science. I love technology a lot!

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Interviewstreet.com, Chennai, India
Position: Co-founder
Time period: July 2009 - Present
Description: Part of the team which successfully launched the alpha version of interviewstreet.com – a portal for conducting mock interviews.
Technology:
• Worked on UI using PHP, CSS/HTML,Jquery
• Good knowledge about LAMP architecture and Git in which the website is setup
Marketing:
• Responsible for marketing and selling the product to customers.

Employer: Amazon.com, Chennai, India
Position: Software Development Engineer
Time period: May 2008 - July 2009
Description: Worked on Kindle Content Services team. Part of a 6 member team which successfully launched https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/ - a self-service application to sell your blog on the Kindle store.
Worked on various fronts of this project:–
• UI development using Perl, CSS/HTML and MVC Framework.
• Backend engineering in Java and Oracle – good understanding of Hibernate, JUnit and OOPS concepts.
• Set up forums for the project, implemented on JSP running on Tomcat/Apache

Employer: National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India
Position: Developer, Summer Intern
Time period: December 2007 - March 2008
Description: Worked on ‘Comparison of Ant Colony optimization and Simulated Annealing techniques for Stable Roommates Problem’
• Stable roommate problem (SRP) is the problem of finding a stable matching — a matching in which there is no pair of elements, each from a different matched set, where each member of the pair prefers the other to their match
• Was able to come up with a graphical comparison between the two techniques for different number of roommates.

Employer: GNU/Linux
Position: Text Editor
Time period: November 2006 - February 2007
Description: • Designed a Text Editor for GNU/Linux with the User Interface (front end) developed using
GTK Library.
• Supports all basic functionalities that include Cut, Copy, Search, and Paste.
• Syntax Highlighting for various languages is currently being done.

Employer: International Institute of Information and Technology, Hyderabad
Position: Intern
Time period: April 2006 - June 2006
Description: Worked on providing an Indian language support to a software named SQUEAK. SQUEAK is an Open Source Tool Kit implemented using Small Talk. The project was to provide an Indian language support so that people could use the software in the language they preferred. I worked with many Open Source libraries including Pango( for Font Rendering), with C and Small Talk being the languages used. I worked on this project for over 2 months and I am proud to say that I was the only one to accomplish this task successfully among all those who attempted, which included students from top institutions across the country and professionals.

Employer: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
Position: Developer, Summer Intern
Time period: April 2006 - June 2006
Description: Worked on providing an Indian language support to SQUEAK - an Open Source Tool Kit
implemented using Small Talk. The project was to provide an Indian language support so
that people could use the software in the language they preferred.
• Worked with many Open Source libraries including Pango( for Font Rendering), with C and Small Talk being the languages used.
• Worked on this project for over 2 months was the only one to accomplish this task
successfully among all those who attempted, which included students from top institutions
across the country and professionals.

EDUCATION

University: National Institute of Technology, Trichy
Time period: 2004 - 2008
Degree: Computer Science, BEng

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: Vivek Ravisankar, Arvind Sundararajan, ‘Efficient Dominating Set of a given graph in
Linear Time’, under review by Journal of Information Science and Engineering.
Patents: Coming Soon!

INFORMATION

Sports: Cricket, Table Tennis
Hobbies: Listening to music
Clubs: GNU/Linux User Group Trichy
Awards: • Among the 6 finalists in IIT-Roorkee B-Plan contest 08.
• Joint 2nd in the B-Plan contest at Pragyan 08- tech fest hosted by NIT, Trichy, India.
• Placement coordinator for Computer Science Batch ’08 – successfully achieved 100%
placement.
• Ranked among TOP 1500 in World in TopCoder Collegiate Contest 2007.
• Ranked among TOP 1500 in World in TopCoder Collegiate Contest 2006.
• Ranked among Top 500 in India in Google India Code Jam 2006.
• Ranked 2nd in College , 25th in India in Byte Code 2007 – Online Programming Contest(OPC)s by NIT,Trichy.
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