EDUCATION
Masters in Computer Science, May 2010
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering, Jun 2006
Anna University, India
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Languages & Scripting Java, Groovy, Bash, JavaScript, PHP
- Design Paradigms OOD, Event-driven Architecture
- Java/JEE Technologies JDBC, JMS, JSP, Tomcat
- Frameworks Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Ehcache, JUnit, GWT, Selenium
- Tools and IDE Eclipse, JTest, JConsole, JMeter, Visual Studio, Rational Rose
- Databases Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Fault tolerance & High availability Linux HA, Heartbeat, Pacemaker, DRBD
- Operating Systems Linux, Windows
- Source control Subversion, Microsoft Visual Source Safe
- Build management Maven, CruiseControl, Bamboo
- Development methodologies Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, Test-driven Development
EXPERIENCE
Cisco Systems
Software Engineer, Jun 2010 – Present
Platform and Architecture Team, Digital Media Systems
- Currently working on adding NFS support to extend the local storage available in digital media systems.
- Led the development of fault tolerance and high availability feature for Cisco’s Digital Media Suite.
- Led the design and implementation of new media analytics device as part of integration with analytics engine.
- Led the effort to improve Certificate Management with several key new features like support for new certificate formats, notification on certificate expiry etc.
- Enhanced inventory service to support multiple interfaces for a device.
- Improved scalability of event management system in digital media suite and resolved long-standing issues in it. Awarded Cisco Achievement award in appreciation of the effort.
- Worked with customers and beta testers to resolve functional and performance defects.
- Championed continuous integration and test automation of the system to identify build failures and functional issues early on.
- Mentored intern in developing an automation test framework to test Platform services.
Software Engineer Intern, May 2009 – Aug 2009
Solution Test Team, Telepresence Exchange Business Unit
- Led the design and development of test automation framework to do end-to-end test of a Telepresence system.
- Designed and developed an automated log collection tool to collection logs from all the system components.
- Identified critical issues in the system by doing automated and manual tests and worked closely with the development team to resolve these issues.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Graduate Research Assistant, Aug 2008 – May 2010
Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
- Developed a middle ware system to run epidemic simulation experiments effectively on a cluster and to analyze the results of the experiment.
- Led the design and development effort to integrate EpiSimdemics simulation system with the middle ware system to run experiments.
- Transitioned the persistence layer of the system to use Hibernate persistence framework.
Infosys Technologies
Software Engineer, Jun 2006 – Jul 2008
Automotive and Aeronautics Unit
- Developed a custom AJAX framework to improve usability in a reporting web application.
- Designed and developed a reports comparison module as part of a report and forecast sales application for Toyota Motors. Awarded Infosys Certificate of Achievement in recognition of performance in the project.
- Involved in the development of several key features as part of development of inventory management system for General Motors.
- Championed Quality initiatives by running and analyzing quality metrics report and educating the team on ways to improve it.
PUBLICATIONS
- Jayaraman, R.K.N., Chung, H., Yang, S., Massjouni, N., Andrews, C. and North, C. “VizCept: Supporting Synchronous Collaboration for Constructing Visualizations in Intelligence Analysis.” The IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST‟10), Oct, 2010.
- Jayaraman, R.K.N., Buffardi, K., Churbanau, D. & Edwards, S.H. “CoPractice: An Adaptive and Versatile Practice Tool.” American Society of Engineering Education, Southeastern. April, 2010.
- Jayaraman, R.K.N., Buffardi, K., Churbanau, D. & Edwards, S.H. “Practice Makes Perfect with CoPractice.” Poster at ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. March, 2010.