Resume of Aalhad Saraf

Punekar PerlWaalay

Aalhad Saraf

30/1, Empress Garden View Society, Sopanbaug,
Pune - 411 001
Home 0212-676912
saraf@pune.pm.org

Education:

1999 - 2000 Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune

Alandi Centre, Know-IT.

Graduated as valedictorian (1st out of 68 students)

1996 - 1999 AISSMS's College of Engineering, Pune. Maharashtra.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics, University of Pune -1st Class

Awards received Leo Club Leadership Award 1998

Skill set summary:

Linux/Unix systems administration:
	Running and using a Linux Workstation since 1995
	Sys/Net Admin a n/w of machines running Solaris,
        with a national ISP

GUI based application development tools :
        GTK+ - Linux platform
        VC++ 6.0
    	PowerBuilder
    	Developer2000
    	VB6 - Win32 platform 
    	Tk - Linux platform

Scripting languages:	
         Perl5
         Tcl 8.0
         Bourne Again Shell

Web based development:
	Web page design
	Apache Architecture -- writing modules for Apache
	MOD_PERL
	PHP+MySQL

Systems level programming :
	C programming on the UNIX/Linux platform for terminal I/O handling.

Low level programming :
	8085 programming x86 programming using MASM 6.11 Programs and routines
    	involving screen, printer, keyboard, interrupt handling and
    	serial communication .

Experience with Microcontrollers :
    	MCS 51 based product design and programming as a part of B.E. project.

Logic system modeling :
    	VHDL based model development of digital ICs.
	Fundamentals of logic synthesis in VLSI design using VHDL.

Operating Systems :
   	Thorough system level understanding of MS-DOS.
    	Familiarity with a portion of the UNIX kernel algorithms.

Network Protocols :
    	Familiarity with the TCP / IP suite of protocols.

Work Experience / Summer Training

May/June 1997	Syslab Automation Pvt. Ltd.
    * Study of Microprocessor based systems and elementary assembly language 
      programming skills.
    * Board troubleshooting / testing.

May/June 1998	Nital Computer Systems
    * Understanding fundamental logic modeling / model testing and Logic synthesis 
      concepts.
    * VHDL programming.
    * Modeling elementary digital IC's using the V-system VHDL compiler / simulator.

Feb 2000-June 2000 DishnetDSL/ETH Research Labs, Pune
    * Development/Testing/Debugging a gameserver for interactive multimedia
      gaming over the Internet.
    * Work involved Perl, PHP, C on the Solaris platform - with Apache.
    * System Admin./Network Admin.
    * Debugging a VC++ based client for the gaming system.
    * Work in progress.

June 2000 Know-IT(ATC) Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing
    * Visiting faculty for the Advanced Unix Programming module

June 2000-present IBM, Pune.
    * Software Engineer, Systems Software Group
    * Development in C++ on Win32
    * compilers using lex and yacc
    * OS/2 systems programming

Languages known:

English, Marathi, Hindi, German

Seminars \ Training courses attended:

* SAARC conference on extending the use of multilingual and multimedia
  information technology EMMIT '98.
* C language training course conducted at the Advanced Computing Training School,
  CDAC during May / June 1996

Extracurricular activities:

Reading, juggling tennis balls, calligraphy, playing the guitar, bicycling,
participating in quizzes. Played table tennis at the district ranking level.
Served as Cultural Secretary of the Electronics Engineering Students Association (EESA),
AISSMS's College of Engineering, Pune for the year 1997-1998,
and an active member of it's executive council. 
Member of intramural dramatics award winning team in Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune.

Areas of Interest:

Operating Systems, Developing training / support software, Systems Administration,
User Interface design, Web based software development, Network Programming on Unix,
Integration of industrial automation with computers, developing CAD tools for electronics

Personal Details:

Date of birth : 19th February 1978

Age : 21yr.

Sex : Male

Nationality : Indian

State of Domicile : Maharashtra

Passport No. : A4865131