Jun 2011 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

• Pipal Tech Ventures is a technology company, focussed on developing cool mobile, social and location based products.
• SaveZippy (DelightCircle formerly) is one of our products. SaveZippy is the leading offers/coupons network in India. SaveZippy Mobile Apps have more than 175,000+ Downloads across Android & iPhone.
• For local & online retailers/brands, SaveZippy is a digital marketing platform that helps them attract new customers & retain existing with offers/coupons by targeting consumers based on Location & Preferences.
• For consumers, SaveZippy is a free service available on smartphones, web & sms. It allows people to discover places to shop & eat and find offers/coupons from more than 350+ brands across 25,000+ stores.
• Awards & Recognitions:
• 1. Top 6 Smartphone Apps in India by NASSCOM
• 2. Top 8 Innovative Product Tech Startup by NASSCOM
• 3. Part of Best Smartphone Apps of 2012 by Yourstory.in
• 4. Part of Promising Startups on 2012 by Pluggd.in
• 5. Featured in TOI, ET, CNBC to name a few

Aug 2010 – Feb 2011 · 6 mos · Bangalore

• I worked as a Software Engineer in the ‘Server Access Virtualization BU’ of Cisco
• Systems India. I worked on Unified Computing System Platform Emulator (UCSPE), and I was deeply involved in it’s next release. The emulator mentioned above is an emulated version of UCS Manager product.

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos

• I was among the 1000 developers in the World to be selected for Google Summer of Code 2009 program and worked on an Open-source project "Rapid" with "OMII-UK" organization from May-August, 2009 under the supervision of Dr. Jano van Hemert and Dr. Jos Koetsier.
• Rapid project is a unique way of quickly designing and delivering web portal interfaces to applications that require high computational resources. I generated Rapid portlets through which one can submit jobs to Cloud Infrastructures like Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus and can even manage the resources from the Cloud, thus successfully completed all the goals.
• The abstract of the project can be found at: http://bit.ly/f7P1Q

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Singapore

• I worked on enhancements and Bug fixes in a web application known as “Lehman Monitoring Tool”, which monitors various services, applications in Barclays Capital under the supervision of Mr. Stewart Holt, Manager in AMSC Division.
• I successfully completed all the objectives and released the new version of the tool.

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Newcastle Upon Type, UK

• I worked on presenting architecture to facilitate the management of compute resources from different cloud providers in a cloud-agnostic manner under the supervision of Prof. Aad van Moorsel, School of Computing Science.
• Achievements: We effectively realized through an implementation in Java using Amazon EC2 and Local Clusters as Computing Infrastructures. A Research Paper on this work has been published recently.
• Publication: Ravi Teja Dodda, Chris Smith and Aad van Moorsel, “An Architecture for Cross-Cloud System Management”, published in the proceedings of IC3-2009 Conference (August 17-19)
• Communications in Computer and Information Science, Contemporary Computing book (556-567), available at SpringerLink.

Mar 2008 – May 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos · IIT Kharagpur

• V'nform Technologies is a technology based startup incubated under the realms of IIT Kharagpur and co-founded by me, along with some of my fellow techno enthusiasts, currently pursuing our Degree. It is an Information providing Enterprise based on Web and Mobile technologies.
• V’nform provided a sms-based marketing software to event organizers bridging the information barrier with attendees. V'nform provided a SAAS solution to event organizers of fests like Eureka of IIT Bombay, Kshitij & Spring fest of IIT Kharagpur, etc.

Sep 2007 – Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Headed the development of the web application which showcases IIT Kharagpur as a Research Consultancy [ http://www.ttg-sric.iitkgp.ernet.in ].
• Showcase of 55 ready-to-transfer Technologies from IIT Kharagpur to the delegates from the Industry through IndAc - a technology exposition.