Prateek Agarwal

Ruby

Python

Cartooning

Qualifications Summary

• Competent at managing responsibilities in a high-volume atmosphere
• Hard worker, quick learner, and ability to assume responsibility

GitHub Projects

• prat0318/2048-tetris » Live at 2048-tetris.com
  • Wrote a Tetris variant of 2048 game, 1M+ unique visits
  • Made it to the front page of Hacker News for a day(~150 pts), mentioned in TechCrunch.
• prat0318/gitator » Live at Gitator.com
  • Finds relevant repositories based on an user's GitHub profile.
  • Written in Ruby on Sinatra and uses Github's Octokit gem

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: Ruby Python Java C++ Javascript PHP
• Web Frameworks: Sinatra Django Rails Apache
• Databases: MySQL PostgreSQL IBM Informix IBM DB2

Education

Academic Achievements

• Was among the top 5% in the institute merit list of the undergraduate batch at IIT Kharagpur.
• Secured 383rd Rank in IIT-JEE 2005, an exam conducted by Indian Institute of Technology(s).

Professional Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, CTR, UT Austin (Sept. 2013 – Jan. 2014)
  • Developed a common web interface http://unitydatabase.com to search through different datasets and output aggregate results and ensuring easy pluggability of new datasets.
  • Technologies used: Python Django South PostgreSQL
• Software Development Engineer, Flipkart, India (Jun. 2011 – Jul. 2013)
  • Wrote a ruby gem Morsel to traverse through active record trees to purge old records. It helped in limiting the production database size and keeping the data clean.
  • Was part of a team which developed the warehouse module in RoR framework from scratch. It now scales to around 10X as compared to the ERP system existed.
  • Designed warehouse stock snapshots and stock ledger framework using Pig scripts to make the supply chain system legally compliant.
  • Technologies used: Ruby Java Pig Active Records MySQL
• Software Engineer, IBM Software Labs, India (Jul. 2009 – Jun. 2011)
  • Handled high priority issues for JDBC client driver for IBM Informix database.
  • Was awarded Smart CADian award for resolving an obscure deadlock situation, making Informix JDBC driver more robust.
  • Technologies used: Java IBM Informix IBM DB2

Other Personal Projects

• Designed product Omerta, a multi-user chat room application in j2me using Sun Wireless Toolkit platform.
  • Was awarded 1^st position for the product in Envision, Product Innovation Contest, IIT KGP.
  • Was awarded 1^st position for the product in Javawise, J2ME s/w Development Contest at IIT Kharagpur, 2008 and 2009 continuously.

Graduate Courses Taken

Distributed Computing	Feature Oriented Programming
Multicore Programming

Undergraduate Courses Taken

Network Systems

Graph Theory

Research Experience

• Undergraduate project, Sanyog Lab, IIT Kharagpur (Jul. 2008 – May 2009)
  • Designing and Formal modelling of embedded systems for project Sanyog.
  • Skills Developed: Low level system design, theorem verification using Prolog and Coq

Patents

• US Patent X,XXX,634 Another exotic title like bed cover with an inflatable human form. , issued on September 15, 1992.

Publications

• Michl Dugls, Mrclo Dsconi Some exotic dummy title like potentials arising from string compactifications, arXiv: 1206.1885, June 2012.

Memberships

• Member of the ACM awesomest humans secret group, 2008-present

Extra Curricular Awards

• Was awarded 2^nd position in Bionetics, Coding Event, Genesis 09 at IIT Kharagpur.
• Microsoft Student Partner of IIT Kharagpur from the period July 08 – June 09.