Purvaja Narayanaswamy

Purvaja Narayanaswamy

San Jose, California, United States
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Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet - Henry…

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Experience

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Patents

  • Automatic client-server role detection among data storage systems in a distributed data store

    US 10116745

  • Piggybacking target buffer address for next RDMA operation in current acknowledgement message

    US 10176144

Projects

  • Computer Architecture

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    Implemented the efficient Cache Replacement technique – Shepherd cache in C language using the Simple Scalar Simulator and compared the result with traditional LRU strategy and calculated the performance improvement
    Implemented the Non-Blocking cache technique in C using the Simple Scalar and estimated how these techniques would increase the hit rate and reduce the miss penalty

    Skill Set
    C, Simple scalar simulator, Data structures

  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship

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    Participated in the workshop and discussions about young entrepreneurs and challenges
    Analyzed the opportunities in Bio-informatics field and developed business plan for a new venture
    Studied in depth the market trends, competitive forces, financial need and customer value for various budding technologies in bio-informatics field and pitched about unique product design to investors which was well received

    Skill Set
    Opportunity Analysis, Market Gap Analysis, Competitor…

    Participated in the workshop and discussions about young entrepreneurs and challenges
    Analyzed the opportunities in Bio-informatics field and developed business plan for a new venture
    Studied in depth the market trends, competitive forces, financial need and customer value for various budding technologies in bio-informatics field and pitched about unique product design to investors which was well received

    Skill Set
    Opportunity Analysis, Market Gap Analysis, Competitor Analysis
    Writing Business plans
    Pitching the ideas to potential investors
    Strategy Planning & Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Business plans

  • Information Storage and Retrieval

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    Built a search engine which supports Boolean and Phrase queries by implementing a MapReduce based indexing component and deploying the index and query logic using Google App Engine
    Analyzed the statistical properties of sample Twitter data and implemented a cosine-based ranking using TF-IDF weights in Apache Lucene.

    Skill Set
    Java, C++, Apache Lucene, Hadoop, Statistical data analysis

  • Machine Learning

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    Implemented various supervised (Neural Network, Decision Tree, Nearest neighbor, Bayesian classifiers) and unsupervised (clustering) learning algorithms for analyzing UC Irvine Machine Learning data repository

    Skill set:
    C++
    Solid Understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms

  • Software Engineering

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    Designed and implemented an Online Shopping mall following the complete cycle of Software Engineering - Requirements Specification, Design Specifications, Coding and Implementation, Testing and maintenance
    Used LAMP Software (Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP) to design and implement the online shopping mall and host it in the web server
    Designed the Entity Relationship diagrams for the different data about the emall in the relational database
    Used Rational Software Architect (RSA) to…

    Designed and implemented an Online Shopping mall following the complete cycle of Software Engineering - Requirements Specification, Design Specifications, Coding and Implementation, Testing and maintenance
    Used LAMP Software (Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP) to design and implement the online shopping mall and host it in the web server
    Designed the Entity Relationship diagrams for the different data about the emall in the relational database
    Used Rational Software Architect (RSA) to develop the UML diagrams – (Usecase, sequence, class and deployment diagrams)

    Skill Set
    LAMP, RSA, Software models

  • Technology Commercialization

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    Market Research Analysis – Phone Interviews and online surveys with Technology and Product Experts, potential investors, end users to summarize the competitive value of various technologies
    Used feedback reports and pitched the viable Texas A&M patented technologies to investors and venture capitalists

    Skill Set
    Elevator Pitches and Writing concise Business Plans
    Market Research
    Competitor Analysis

Honors & Awards

  • Speaker at GraceHopper Conference 2019

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    Was a speaker at GHC-19 on "Enhance Data Platform with Unified Storage"

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