Richin Jain
Master of Science in Computer Science
Northeastern University
jainrici[at]ccs[dot]neu[dot]edu
About Me
I am a second year Masters student at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University, Boston MA. I graduated from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering. Before joining Northeastern University I worked for Patni Computer Systems for one year at Pune, India. I have worked as a Coop at EMC Corporation from Jan - Sept. 2010 in the Storage Virtualization Quality Engineering Team. Currently I am working as Computer Lab Assistant at College of Engineering, Northeastern University.
Academic Interests
Software Engineering,Operating Systems,Network Security,Algorithms and Datamining
Work Experience
EMC Corporation
Developed an asset management tool to maintain inventory using LAMP software package. It was used by teams in US, Canada and India.
- Knowledge Acquired: Linux Platform, Apache Webserver, MySQL Database and Perl
Designed automation scripts in Python to generate reports for EMC VPLEX, a distributed federation solution.
- Knowledge Acquired: Python Scripting, Cron Job, Virtual Storage
Transferred knowledge about the use of the tool to team members, also performed technical writing for the manual.
- Knowledge Acquired: Presentation Skills, Technical Writing
Planned and executed three hardware lab relocations, involving setup of 100+ servers, switches and arrays.
- Knowledge Acquired: Storage Arrays, Switches, Patch Panels, Servers, Datacenter Functioning
Setup and maintained ESX servers; created and migrated virtual machines using vMotion.
- Knowledge Acquired: VMware technologies, Virtualization
Patni Computer Systems
Developed an automated application to grant access rights to user profiles using J2EE and IBM Websphere.
- Knowledge Acquired: J2EE platform development, Web Authentication Mechanism, Storage Techniques
Managed solution life cycle for two of the J2EE based enterprise application developed for State Farm Insurance.
- Knowledge Acquired: J2EE platform development, Testing, Production Support, Client Interaction
Projects
Buffer Overflow Attack [C, Linux] (July 2009 - May 2009)
Implemented a buffer overflow attack that modified the return address of a program to spawn a shell, using GDB to generate exploit code.
- Technical Skills Acquired: Linux Shell Scripting, C programming, Assembly Language
- Knowledge Acquired: Memory Management, Buffer Overflow attack and how to prevent it
Mini Operating System [x86Asembly Language, C, Linux] (September 2009)
Developed a tiny OS inside a Linux process which was able to load and execute programs at user defined memory location.
- Technical Skills Acquired: Linux Shell Scripting, C programming, Assembly Language
- Knowledge Acquired: Process Management, Memory Management, Context Switching
Multi Player Battleship Game [Java, Windows] (March 2009)
Designed Battleship game where multiple players can play and chat over a network.
- Technical Skills Acquired: Socket Programming, Multi-threading
- Knowledge Acquired: Multi-threaded systems, Synchronization implementations
Technical Skills
- Platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac
- Programming Languages: C++, Java, C, PL/SQL,MATLAB, Perl
- Scripting: Python, Ruby, Javascript
- Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM DB2
- Tools: Visual Studio, Netbeans, Eclipse,Rational Software Archtect
- Others: Jboss, Websphere Application Server 6.0, Apache Tomcat, Log4j,Junit