Pawan Wagh

Arizona · United States · (480) 329-4226 · waghpawan09@gmail.com

Computer Science graduate student at Arizona State University with 3.5 years of professional experience.

Education

Arizona State University | Tempe, USA

Master of Science in Computer Science

GPA: 3.78/4

Relevant Coursework: Database Management System Implementation, Information Assurance and Security, Foundations of Algorithms.

Graduate Service Assistant: Developed application for Lidar control and point cloud visualization using C++.

Developer: Working as Backend Developer at University Technology Office on Node.js, AWS lambda and DynamoDB.

Jan 2021 - Present

Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT) | Pune, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

GPA: 8.55/10. Graduated with 'Distinction'

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Principles of Modern Compiler Design, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems and Design, High Performance Computing, Object Oriented Programming, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

July 2013 - June 2017

Professional Experience

Software Engineer 2

Quick Heal | Pune, India

  • Worked in a team of EndPoint Security Server backend and tools development.
  • Optimized Service pack delivery mechanism reducing storage used on AWS by around 8000 on premise server installations and effectively decreasing cost per release by 20%.
  • Developed features including policy settings, improved firewall reports by propagating changes from client to server data contracts. Slashed deployment time by developing tools for automating tasks.
  • Engineered a plugin and its backend server to monitor mail contents in outlook 365.
  • Fixed crashes in product by analyzing crash dumps and resolved customer issues in the production environment.
  • Mentored three new software engineers, created technical designs for features and performed code reviews.

July 2019 - October 2020

Programmer

Ubisoft | Pune, India

  • Contributed to tools, engine and gameplay for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Far Cry 3 CE.
  • Implemented platform specific features, achievement system, input system for the game with 2 million+ downloads.
  • Fixed compilation for retail configuration of referenced libraries and products which resulted in performance gain of 30%.
  • Led development for the camera system, prototyped camera designs and mentored two junior engineers.
  • Upgraded the entire cinematic pipeline for Prince of Persia SOT and developed a tool for scene setup.
  • Wrote scripts to clean more than 60% unreferenced data in sqlite based large data files.
  • Collaborated with the build team and Automated region wise build for generation by using Jenkins.

July 2017 - July 2019

Projects

User preference sensitive dbms on top of minibase

Technologies Used : Java, Minibase

  • Implemented skyline computation operator using B+ tree indexes and pruned around 80% tuples before computation.
  • Created memory management mechanism to limit the amount of memory used by skyline operator.
  • Developed clustered B+ tree index structures for minibase and extended minibase to handle float data types.

File activity monitor

Technologies Used : C, WDM, Minifilter

  • Wrote a Minifilter driver to monitor file activities(read, write, delete) using the windows driver model.
  • Created a user space application to communicate directory paths to kernel space minifilter driver.

Quality of Experience\Quality of Service mapping in Software-defined networks

Technologies Used : Java, Play, MongoDB

  • Designed architecture for the project and wrote an algorithm for calculating quality of experience.
  • Developed Play based controller application to adjust path weights to avoid congestion in network using mininet and MongoDB.

Data integrity and Deduplication checking for cloud platforms

Technologies Used : Python, OpenStack

  • Deployed private cloud using OpenStack framework and coded SHA1 hashing algorithm in python.
  • Built Client-Server Application to demonstrate integrity and deduplication checking.

ZangOut

Technologies Used : Android, Kii, Google APIs

  • Developed an android application to make students comfortable with the new locality listing out local businesses and services.
  • Created feature to add shops and list, integrated google auth and google places APIs with application.

Skills

  • Programming Languages: C++, C, Java, Python, Go, Shell Scripting
  • Databases: MongoDB, SQL
  • Frameworks: Play, Android SDK, Flask, Node.js
  • Operating Systems\Tools: Linux, Windows, Visual Studio, VMware vSphere, Maven, Docker, Git, Perforce, JIRA
  • Others: AWS, Debugging, Design Patterns, Cloud Services, Object oriented programming, REST APIs

Achievements and Leadership activities

  • Led team of size 8 for CSE 543 Information Assurance and Security in Spring 2021.
  • Spot Award at Quick Heal for optimising service pack delivery mechanism.
  • Received Big Bounty Hunter award at Ubisoft Pune for fixing maximum number of issues.