Specialties/Interests: Algorithms, Distributed Systems , Cloud Computing, Big Data, Machine Learning, Computer Vision Previous Work - Docker, Openstack/Cloudstack Developer: Nova , Glance , Keystone service , UI development, Android application development, Languages - Java,Python, GoLang, C, HTML/CSS, Java Script , JQuery , Ajax Virtualization: Xenserver, KVM Python Framework/libraries: Django(basic) DVCS: GIT, Linux OS:-Ubuntu, Unix Agile Dev, ACDM, Scrum, Start up Environment Code committer @ Apache Software Foundation,USA under CloudStack http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html http://cloudstack.apache.org/who.html Github - https://github.com/pranavs18 Full Time offers as SDE in United States from companies like Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Cisco, Citrix.

Software Engineer @ Distributed Systems, Cloud, Docker, Siri & Infrastructure for Apple products ! From February 2015 to Present (9 months) Cupertino, CaliforniaCode Committer @ Contributed to the open source development of Apache CloudStack by committing code patches for my own features using GIT, merging and reviewing other code patches submitted by the members of the Apache CloudStack open source community and answering queries for community members. http://cloudstack.apache.org/who.html Official Apache ID - pranavs@apache.org From July 2012 to Present (3 years 4 months) United StatesSenior Software Engineer @ - Building something new - Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Docker, GoLang. - Open Source Contributor (https://github.com/pranavs18 ) - Contributed to development of following components - Cattle (Java), Py-agent (Python), Host-API (GoLang),Go-Rancher Bindings (GoLang), docker-client(Go). GITHUB repo - https://github.com/rancherio From November 2014 to February 2015 (4 months) Cupertino, CaliforniaSoftware Developer, Architect, Program/Risk Manager @ Designed and implemented an Android mobile application from scratch with 3 team members - Collecting requirements from the client, defining quality attributes, analyzing features which add business value, creating and refining the architecture and implementation of computer vision algorithms for object boundary detection. From January 2014 to August 2014 (8 months) Greater Pittsburgh AreaSoftware Development Engineer @ Part of OpenStack & Cloudstack development team under Data Center & Cloud Computing Division (www.openstack.org) Key Roles in Openstack :  Worked on the major service components required for setting up a cloud – Nova CLI ( compute engine ) , Glance CLI ( image uploading service for VHD , OVF etc. image formats) , Keystone service for Cloud user authentication , Openstack Dashboard (User Interface for Openstack) , Swift storage services. Worked on puppet calls for handling master-slave relationship in a cloud set up and REST API calls for tracking user requests in either JSON/XML format. Worked on scheduling algorithms for enabling multi-Hypervisor ( Xenserver for Citrix and Esxi for VMware) support for Openstack where in the image format was matched to a compatible hypervisor type using a key-value pair and the GUI changes for enabling this feature using JQuery . Apart from this work, I have gained a significant knowledge of python programming, shell scripting, Django web development framework, Xen Virtualization and basic of Jenkins automated testing. Key Roles in CloudStack : open source software written in java that is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines(www.cloud.com) Successfully modified and implemented the code required to generate api key and signature for authentication for executing any commands for VM instance management which uses SHA 1 hash algorithm thereby encoding the string in base 64 encoding format. Worked with the peer team in the US remotely and directly on CloudStack UI Development using JavaScript ,JQuery, Ajax , HTML/CSS and Virtual Machine Transition State sync issues. Developed User Interfaces for numerous features for Apache CloudStack starting from Tooltips ,LDAP authentication , ACLs in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) , Dedication of Resources(VMs ,CPU) to an account , Egress firewall rules etc . From July 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 1 month) Bengaluru Area, IndiaSDE Intern @ Part of the Microsoft C360 development team for enhancement & porting of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 . Developed an upgraded version of the enhancement known as C360 Notification Service / Reminder which has been completely developed on .NET framework using C#.. c360 Reminder lets you monitor any combination of users and/or queues and activity types, enabling users to monitor queues and other members in a team.(www.C360.com) . Product officially released on April 15, 2011. From January 2011 to June 2011 (6 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaSummer Research Intern @ Part of Geographical Information Systems Team where a high resolution digitized map for goa was developed using ARC GIS 9.3 software using Google API's. The digitized map was submitted to the Goa government , as such a high resolution map wasn’t available before. Won appreciation from Dr. S.Rajan ,Scientist G and Project Director (CLCS),NCAOR(goa) From May 2009 to July 2009 (3 months) Goa , India

Master's degree, School of Computer Science - Computer Software Engineering @ Carnegie Mellon University From 2013 to 2014 B.E(HONS) Computer Science , BITS Pilani , Rajasthan (India), Computer Science @ BITS Pilani From 2007 to 2011 10th & 12th, Non-Medical @ Bhartiya Vidya Bhawans , Chandigarh From 2003 to 2007 Pranav Saxena is skilled in: Python, Java, C, Linux, JavaScript, Shell Scripting, AJAX, jQuery, C#, Agile Methodologies, .NET, Algorithms, Software Development, Core Java, HTML, MySQL, CSS, Distributed Systems, Windows, Big Data, WCF, WPF, CentOS, Firebug, Node.js, require.js, Hadoop, MapReduce, Docker, Go