Résumé of Ranjit Mathew

Basic Information

Name

Ranjit Mathew

Email Address

rmathew@gmail.com

Education

Bachelor of Technology (CSE), 1992-1996,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur

Professional Experience

Yahoo		(May 2010 - Present)
Oracle		(Jan 2003 - May 2010)
Headstrong		(Apr 2002 - Jan 2003)
Torry Harris		(Nov 1998 - Mar 2002)
IBM		(Aug 1996 - Nov 1998)

Summary of Skills
Programming Languages	Java, C, C++, x86-32 Assembly Language
Platforms	Linux, MS-DOS, Windows 9x/NT4/2000/XP (on x86 PCs) AIX 4.x (on IBM RS/6000 workstations) Solaris 2.x, 8, 9 (on Sun SPARC workstations) HP-UX 10.x (on HP PA-RISC workstations) DEC OSF/1 (now Tru64) (on DEC Alpha workstations) BBC Microcomputer
Development Methodologies	Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) Structured Analysis, Structured Design (SASD)
Modelling Languages	Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Distributed Computing	SOA (SOAP/BPEL/etc.), CORBA, DCE, Java/RMI
Databases	Oracle, DB2, MySQL
Graphics	OpenGL, SDL
Others	Design Patterns, J2EE, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Experience Summary

At Yahoo:

Apache Hadoop: A fault-tolerant and open-source infrastructure for performing large-scale distributed computing on commodity hardware. Member of the team that owns GridMix3, a production-load simulator and stress-tester for Hadoop clusters.

At Oracle:

Oracle Enterprise Manager: A product used to manage and monitor systems deployed in an organisation. Member of the team that maintains the patching feature. Security Point of Contact (SPoC) for the team.
Oracle Software Packager and Universal Installer: The tool-set used to create installers for Oracle's products like the RDBMS and the Application Server. Team member.

At Headstrong:

TradePort: An order-management system for brokerage firms and trading houses that supports multiple order destinations and has a comprehensive risk management system. Principal designer of the Common Service Framework for TradePort Server services.

At Torry Harris:

ASPizer: Provided an infrastructure over a J2EE-based application server that let Application Service Providers (ASPs) manage their users, security, licensing, billing, etc. Completely distributed environment with remote administration capabilities and a handy web-based administration application. Principal architect and designer.
WebOBlocks: Provided a component-based methodology for rapidly building web applications to be hosted on J2EE-based application servers. Based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Principal designer and implementor.
Other: dotFlow - a Java-based distributed workflow engine, EazyCache - a Java-based object cache, a Work-Load Management (WLM) tool for Distributed CICS, enabling Java/IIOP for Distributed CICS, etc.

At IBM:

CTF: Designed and built some extensions (a personal finance management framework, a TN3270 emulator and a WhiteBoard) for the IBM Consumer Transaction Framework (CTF) developed by IBM Hursley, UK. Principal designer and implementor.
alphaBeans: Designed and developed some JavaBeans that ultimately became a part of IBM alphaBeans. This effort spanned four countries (China, India, Latvia and Belarus) and was managed by IBM USA.
AIX Server Support: Provided "Level-3" (L3) support on the command-line programmes available to AIX customers.

Personal Projects

Here is a list of some of my personal projects:

GCJ: I have been a contributing hacker to the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) in particular and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in general since 2002.
GCJ for MinGW: A Windows-native port of the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) using the GNU tool-set as provided by the Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW) project. Based on the work of Adam Megacz.
GDB for MinGW: A Windows-native port of the GNU Debugger (GDB) version 5.2.1 using the GNU tool-set as provided by the MinGW project. Based on the patches from Artem Khodush.
ZINC: A simulator-cum-assembler for playing a variant of Core War.
VirtualTaj: A 3D interactive walkthrough of the famous Taj Mahal for Windows and Linux, developed using OpenGL and SDL.
The Hobbitware.com Intranet Project: A guide to setting up a complete intranet for a small organisation using free server software on Linux, based on personal experience.
x86 Disassembler: An intelligent disassembler for producing valid assembly language programmes from MS-DOS executables.
Fox3D: A simple raycasting 3D engine for walking through a maze, similar to the legendary game Wolfenstein 3D by id Software.
PMars: A simple voxel landscape engine inspired by the legendary "Mars" demo by T. J. Clarke, written almost entirely in assembler and using the x86 Protected Mode under MS-DOS.
Core War: Another assembler and simulator created earlier for working with Core War programmes as described by A. K. Dewdney.
Others: An assembler/simulator for Knuth's MIX, a fast Mandelbrot set explorer, etc.

Miscellaneous Comments

I am equally at ease with systems and enterprise application development. I am skilled in object-oriented design and development, especially in Java on J2EE-based application servers. I have a fairly strong knowledge of C programming.

Disclosure: I have signed copyright assignment papers with the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that assign the copyright for all my past and future contributions to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Classpath to the FSF.