Sujee Maniyam

Objective

Skills

• Software Development Experience
  
  • {web / iphone / social / enterprise} apps
  • Performance and scalability of Java apps / web apps / databases
  • App-Integration platforms / RFID/EPCIS systems
  • Knowledge of a wide range of technologies and the ability to pick up new technologies quickly
  • worked on large scale software projects through all stages of development: concept, design, development, testing, deployment and support, at startups and big companies
  • used to long release cycles (years) to short ones (weeks/days)
  • keen Open Source software user, author and contributor ( Ubuntu, Eclipse, Mozilla, KDE)

• OS : Linux (system admin expertise), Mac, Windows
• Languages: Java, Ruby, PHP, Objective-C / C / C++, Shell
  (Java : performance, networking, UI, JNI, threads, NIO, RMI;   Obj-C : Iphone app dev)
• Technologies & Tools :
  
  • Web : Ruby on Rails, LAMP stack
  • Iphone SDK
  • Databases & SQL, database scalability & replication
  • Web Services, WSDL, XML, JSON
  • APIs : Social networking (Facebook),   Web frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Qcodo, Symfony),   Javascript libraries ( Jquery, Prototype, Scriptaculous)
  • dev tools (Eclipse, ANT, xcode, Linux dev environment), performance profilers, version control (GIT, Subversion, CVS, ClearCase), cross platform GUI tool kits (Eclipse SWT, Java Swing)
  • Working knowledge of scalable infrastructure : Hadoop, Hbase
  • Fundamental knowledge of scalable infrastructure : Hadoop/HDFS, Google File System, BigTable

Work Experience

• Lead Engineer @ Uloop, Mountain View, CA : (2008 - Present)
  Uloop is an online marketplace for students - (books, jobs, housing)
  I am the lead engineer in charge of technology.
  • designed a scalable infrastructure for improved performance and scalability (load distribution, mysql database replication, caching). Taken the site through significant growth phase
  • developed and launched major site features. Focus is on clean design, usability and interaction(ajax) (screenshots)
  • monitoring and maintaining the site and services
  • search engine optimization (SEO)
  [Technologies : LAMP/php, Qcodo framework]
• Software Engineer @ IBM, Burlingame, CA : (2002 Feb - 2008)
  Former company Crossworlds was acquired by IBM
  • designed and developed on RFID/EPCIS middleware. Built automated testing framework and incorporated coverage analysis to build process. Customer deployments and support
    [Websphere server platform, Java, XML]
  • Technical team leader : We added Web Services support for business work flow design tools, making it easier to discover and invoke web services. The project was nominated for an internal IBM award and a patent was granted [# 20060271537]
    (screenshot1, screenshot2, screenshot3)
  • Eclipse tooling development (JFace, GEF, EMF). Worked on a graphical editor (that is part of IBM developer suite) that allowed to easily expose an operation as web service - screenshot
  • Mentoring interns and new engineers
• Software Engineer @ Crossworlds, Burlingame, CA : (1999 July - 2002 Feb)
  Crossworlds did Application Integration Middlware.
  • designed and developed enterprise (middleware integration) apps in Java
  • Java server performance engineer: Created, benchmarked and profiled prototypes for improved performance. Studied scalability across multi-processor systems. Designed custom performance tools to measure product performance. (screenshot)
    [profiling tools for java/solaris]
  • Solaris platform lead: Responsible for porting the product to Solaris. Promoted portable C++ coding standards. Implemented a build system on Solaris.

My projects

• Iphone App : Discounts For Me
  Founder of DiscountsForMe.net - an online member-benefits & discounts directory.
  The iphone app shows benefits and discounts available for members of various organizations (public radio stations, auto clubs).
  [Ruby on Rails, data spidering, geocoding, REST API / JSON, Iphone SDK]
  App link and screenshots
  My presentations/talks on building client-server iphone apps
• tripyogi.com
  Co-founder of TripYogi - a meta travel site for Indian domestic air travel. Site featured route calculation with multiple airlines, discount fare comparison and trip planning with trains and planes.
  [LAMP stack (php), spidering airline websites, route calculation]
  (screenshot1)
• Facebook App IBeatYou
  compete in online competitions with your friends (and brag!)
  [Facebook API, PHP, Symfony web framework]
  ( screenshot1, screenshot2 screenshot3, )
• 304 card game
  A Multi player, network aware card game in Java (in beta stage)
  [Java server with chat + user authentication + game logic, Java NIO and threading for scalable connections, firewall friendly networking, pluggable client architecture for human clients and AI robot clients, cross platform GUI client in Eclipse JFace]
  (screenshot1)
• GPS way point viewer
  Developed this mash-up to help me and other photographers who use GPS waypoints to mark locations for photography. See waypoints in a Google map and search the waypoints for a keyword (sunset)
  [Javascript - dojo, Google map APIs, GPX file format, geo-coding ]
  ( screenshot1, screenshot2 )
• ProjTimer
  Measures time spent on various tasks on a working day with minimal user intervention. Useful for status reports and consultants billing by hour A small Java application with intuitive Swing GUI, fast and responsive, and easy to use. The GUI and core code are re-used in another open source project SimpleTracker
  [Java swing]
• Technical articles and HOWTOs and code contributions

University Education