Jul 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Developing important routing features (BGP) for Arista Switches & Routers. Developed SRD feature for handling large scale routing information with efficient data structures. Feature was developed for winning important clients from big content providers and internet providers. Worked with distributed systems, shared memory systems while working on the project. Cannot disclose all details here.

Sep 2012 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Kitchener, Canada Area

• Interesting project on Temporal Summarization Systems. In short, the objective is to design an efficient system which collects important updates over time for important natural disaster type events such as hurricanes/earth quakes/bombings etc. As an example, the system generates/retrieves important updates from Web for hurricane sandy when the event is still in progress. Our system ranked first in the TREC 2014 TST track which evaluated all such systems from IR researchers world wide.
• Master's thesis on the topic here: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/8516

Jun 2009 – Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Developed scalable search framework on the top of ISYS, Apache Lucene platform to query on individual documents & document collection.
• Presented user with clickable search results to navigate to the result hit in the document for different document types including pdf's, html, sgml formatted pages.
• Developed algorithms to automatically identify, extract and parse relevant information from tables and text snippets in financial documents.
• Built web applications for data collection from documents by users and developed webservice to
• serve search requests from users simultaneously.