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Kapil Thangavelu
Contact Information:
[email protected]
[email protected]
1001 E. Villa #24
Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 356-9776
Education:
College of William & Mary
BS in Computer Science
BA in History
Graduated May 2000
Objective:
To develop server side technologies and applications, with a focus
on integration of diverse resources.
Skills Matrix:
Programming Languages: Python, Java, C, SQL, PL/SQL, PL/PGSQL,
Tcl/Tk, C++.
Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle
WebServers: Zope, AolServer, Apache, Servlets (Tomcat/Jetty)
LDAP Servers: OpenLDAP
GUI: Qt, Tk
Mail Servers: Postfix, QMail
Other Software Systems: CVS, SQUID, Jabber, SSH, Mozilla
Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, IMAP, POP, DHCP
XML: SAX1/2, DOM2, XSLT, XML-RPC, SOAP, RDF
System Adminstration: Linux
Methodologies: Object Oriented Programming, UML1.3,
Component Oriented Programming, Extreme Programming.
Work Experience:
CounterSign - July 2002 - Present
Senior Zope/CMF Developer - Lead Developer responsible for design
and implementation of a CMF/Plone based portal. Recommendations
available, details classified.
Mindtel - December 2001 - Present
Senior Software Architect Consultant - Responsible for design
and creation of new applications backends to support visualization
of complex data.
- Created A web based VRML Renderer Configuration app
that connected to network renderer's residing on client desktops
and sent VRML data extracted from XML stored GPS information.
- Created a mass text indexing system (based on lucene),
to graphically render search results from collected document
archives (news groups, medical journals, etc.) ranging in
size from 2GB to 1TB.
- Created an XML to RDBMS data conversion tool, for analysis
and navigation of the data via a web interface.
USC Cancer Research Group - July 2001 - February 2002
Content Management/Workflow Consultant - Responsible for
the design and implementation of a project management system.
- Created an intranet system for managing project workflow
for a distributed group of statistical programmers.
Holtvale - December 2000 - July 2001
Chief Software Engineer - Responsible for investigating
emerging technologies, team leadership, design, and implementation
of a high throughput, highly available system of domain name
registration and management (including dns, mail, web) driven
by replicated LDAP servers, an ecommerce system system models
running on Postgres, and a high performance asynchronous
i/o network engine based on the Medusa (nightmare.com) server
framework to communicate the various tcp/ip protocols. Work for
this was position was conducted remotely with other team members
located in Australia.
CountingDown.com - August 2000 - December 2000
Web Architect
Lead Developer on an Oracle/AolServer/ACS4 version of CountingDown.com
(A subsidiary of DreamWorks), a web based movie fan community.
Responsible for Data Model Development, Workflow, and implementation.
Championed use of ACS as a solution/development strategy. Developed
interim solutions in Zope while ACS4 version was in progess.
Coordinated efforts between DBA, Systems Adminstrator, other
programmers, graphics designers, and html coders. Setup shared
Development Environment including mail server, web server, database,
cvs, and ftp server.
BootCamp - ArsDigita.com - June - July 2000
Participated in the ArsDigita bootcamp. Acquired skills in Aolserver,
Oracle, Tcl scripting, and the Arsdigita Community System (ACS).
ASTi - February 2000 - May 2000
Web Application Developer - Responsible for developing a prototype
of the ASTi corporate intranet for managing project workflow
and production of parts.
I gathered site requirements from ASTi employees. I designed and
implemented a working prototype to fufill those requirements and the
workflow guidelines I was given. After the prototype was built,
I turned over the project to their web master, and educated him
regardings its construction and extensibility.
Applications created
- RDBMS schema for ASTi's parts and production compoennts as
welll as installation and setup of RDBMS (PostgreSQL)
- A Persistent DOM interface for ASTi's internal project parts.
The Product created subvendor orders based on a customer's product
spec/purchase order
- A searchable email archive for communications between ASTi's sales
engineers and clients.
Director of Development - Information Technology @ College of William & Mary
- Fall 1999 - May 2000
www.sin.wm.edu
Selected as the architect of the next generation Student Information
Network at the College, an information portal for students. I
investigated various Web Application Platforms (ACS, Enhydra), before
settling on Zope, Python, and PostgreSQL, to replace an aging
code-base of mod_perl scripts. Taught the developers about Zope
Architecture and Python and lead them in designing and implementing
the new system. Designed and Implemented Session Mangement, IMAP
authentication, Team Web Site for Distributed Development, Online
Rideboard, Message Board, Housing Market, and Local Jobs Board.
Skills Acquired
- Object Oriented Design
- Team Management
Field Consultant - Technology Support Center @ College of William & Mary
- Summer 1999 - Sprint 2000
Assisted in training of on-call support specialists. Made field visits
to various problem sites doing network troubleshooting (DHCP, SMB,
TCP/IP), operating system troubleshooting (Linux, Win98), and
application troubleshooting (EMail Clients, MS Office).
HTML Perl/CGI Developer - Infomation Technology @ College of William & Mary
- Spring 1998 - Spring 1999
www.sin.wm.edu
Designed and Implemented Entertainment Section for the Student
Information Newtork in Perl/HTML/Javascript/CGI with a Unix DBM
backend. This section of the site served as a repository of
local entertainment, movies, and restaurants in the Williamsburg, VA
area.
Contact References and Code Samples for Work Experiences are available
to interested parties.
Open Source Developer
I spend a great deal of my free time contributing to open source
projects. most of this time goes to zope, a python based
application server, some of my work on this project can be found
here http://www.zope.org/Members/k_vertigo
Affiliations:
Member of the Python Software Community. http://www.python.org/psa
Founding Member of Los Angelos Zope Users Group http://www.lazug.org
Conferences:
Oreilly Open Source Convention 2002, San Diego, CA (Speaker)
10th International Python Conference 2002, Washington, DC
Oreilly Open Source Convention 2001, San Diego, CA
9th International Python Conference 2001, San Diego ,CA
8th International Python Conference 2000, Washington, DC
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