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Résumé: Animesh Kumar

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I am a Software Architect with an innovative medium scale company, Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd., which deals in language solutions and, in past years, have built world’s first Hindi portal, world’s first Hindi TTS, world’s first lingual Wap solution, first lingual light weight embeddable input-output component and first integrated multilingual text/media blogging, mini-portal platform.

My current work focuses on technology that connects people with low or nil english literacy with the mainstream internet. Mywebdunia is one such medium that lets people come forward and speak and share with each other without any language barrier.

I was honored with Gold Medal for Excellence in Technology for the year 2007-08.

Education
  • Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (Member of IIT-JEE entrant colleges) in the year 2004.
  • Cleared IIT-JEE 2000 with an All India Rank 2387 amongst approximately 1,50,000 participants.
  • Higher Secondary from St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi in the year 2000.
Career Summary
Software Architect
Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd.
October 2008 – Present
  • Architected and developed Jivisha– Linux/J2EE/Spring based networking platform for medical fraternity with features like text/media blogging, photo/video sharing, texting, auto news aggregation etc – with a team of 6 members.
  • Architected and developed Patient Management System (PMS). PMS is a desktop/web based application for Doctors to keep track of their in/out-bound patients, financials, communication, visiting hours etc. and is closely coupled with Jivisha for online publication, update, backup and interface consistency. It runs on inbuilt J2EE container and Hsqldb.
Team Leader
Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd.
July 2007 – September 2008
  • Created vision, architected and developed Mywebdunia – Linux/J2EE based multi-language blogging and media sharing site which supports text/media blogging, photo galleries, pod-casting, video sharing, widgets etc. – with a team of 5 members. Mywebdunia ranks among top 1000 websites in India and was nominated for “The Manthan Awards 2008
  • Designed and developed WIOCLite – Java/Javascript based multi-language, multi-keyboard, pluggable input-output component for web/mobile/desktop applications – with a team of 4 members. WIOCLite is listed in “NASSCOM’s top 50 Innovators of 2008”
Sr. Software Engineer
Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd.
June 2006 – July 2007
  • Lead and co-developed Linux/Struts based full-fledged advertising solution which could define banner sections on pages and control/audit the ads displayed on them, and an Admin Module to control data update from CMS, menu hierarchy, portal’s theme and flow etc. for Indiatimes’ education portal EducationTimes. EducationTimes was awarded “Genius of the Web Awards 2007” as the “Best Education Site”
  • Developed a Linux/J2EE/Struts based Asset Management System with 3 more members, which helped in managing, auditing and keeping track of assets, hardware, software and devices. It is put in use since then and helps manage 7 locations in India and US.
  • Designed and developed Toronto Star Mobile News application. It is a J2ME/Brew based mobile application with J2EE based distributed content delivery server, and an Admin Panel to manage theme/flow and content syndication. This application was ported to more than 200 devices and subscribed by more than a million users.
Software Engineer
Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd.
July 2004 – May 2006
  • Developed multilingual image (png/wbmp) based Wap solution. It had Javascript based multilingual XML parser for Node management and data entry, and a Java Text-to-Image conversion engine which used font based data rendering on the image palette.
  • Performed major feature enhancements in Time Warner Cable e-commerce application, for example, designed and implemented a calendar based resource availability matrix to help users check availability of a resource before logging in a complaint into the system, a database based flow manager to the existing structure to help administrators control the system flow, and various custom components for ad-hoc business rules integration.
Research Associate
Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd.
April 2003 – June 2004

This was a part time association, mainly an extension of my graduation work on Hindi Speech Synthesis and recognition.

  • Evaluated and implemented various models, filters and algorithms in Neural Networks and Markov Models in Matlab 4.0. Published a paper on “Enhanced speech segmentation by variable sampling.”
  • Implemented entire system with pre-recorded phonemes, and later assisted in porting the application to VC++ for a more native association with Windows machine.
Miscellaneous Activities
  • Actively blog on http://www.animesh.org/blog/
  • Mentor students of SCS, Indore and Truba College of Engineering & Technology, Indore on software architecture/design, thinking and style; Conducted seminars on Role of Software Architecture in Current Paradigm.
  • Conduct seasoned trainings on “Office Etiquettes and Communications” with Ma Foi. Most recently, the training was conducted for Middle level Employees of IIM, Indore
  • Assisting a few NGO's, working for the cause of uplifting of poor/orphan children, in fund raising, planning and execution at all level of hierarchy. If you are in a similar kind of work, we can chit-chat

A more detailed, heavily techincal and no-nonsense CV is available on request.