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\author{Siddhartha Reddy Kothakapu}


% - Address --------------------------------------------------------
\address {
    \url{http://www.grok.in/}\\
    \url{http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidsr}
}
{
    \href{mailto:sids@sids.in}{sids@sids.in}\\
    +91 998 028 7437
}


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% - Experience --------------------------------------------------
\begin{category}{Experience}{}

    \item {\topic Technical Guru,} Ziva Software, Bangalore
        {\period Jul 2006 - Present}
        \begin{quote}
            \href{http://www.zook.in/}{{\hl Ziva Software}} is a startup based
            out of Bangalore, providing products and services in the {\hl
            Mobile Search} domain. Ziva provides search solutions to several
            players in the mobile industry including operators, manufacturers
            and content owners. In 2007, Ziva launched
            \href{http://www.zook.in/}{{\hl Zook}}, its consumer facing mobile
            search engine.
        \end{quote}
        \begin{quote}
            Was the first non-founding employee. Have been a core member of
            the team and was involved in most of the projects. Helped define
            both development and strategic roadmap for the company.
        \end{quote}

\end{category}


% - Education ---------------------------------------------------
\begin{category}{Education}{}

    \item {\topic M.Tech in Information Technology}
        {\footnotesize(3.71/4.00 CGPA)}
        {\period Jun 2006}
        \begin{quote}
            International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
        \end{quote}

\end{category}


% - Skills --------------------------------------------------
\begin{category}{Skills}{}

    \item {\topic Languages:} Perl, Clojure, Java, PHP, Ruby, Javascript,
    C/C{\tt ++}

    \item {\topic Frameworks/Libraries/Tools:} Hadoop, Nutch, CouchDB, MySQL,
    Lucene, Solr, Sphinx, WEKA, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, jQuery, RabbitMQ

    \item {\topic Others:} HTML, CSS, JSP, Bash Shell Scripting

\end{category}


% - Intersts --------------------------------------------------
\begin{category}{Interests}{}

    \item Engineering Information Systems---Retrieval, Extraction \&
    Management, Machine Learning, Scalable Architectures, Distributed \& Cloud
    Computing, Usability \& User Experience.

\end{category}


% - Projects ---------------------------------------------------
\begin{category}{Selected Projects}{}

    \item {\topic Buddhi Online,} Ziva Software
        {\teamsize 1-2}
        {\period Nov 2008 - Present}

        \begin{quote}
            Real-time extraction of actionable {\hl information snippets} from
            web pages. The extracted snippets are provided as exact answers to
            search queries.
        \end{quote}

        \begin{quote}
            Conceptualised, designed and developed the complete system ---
            first as a prototype and then as a production system that is
            currently powering Zook.
        \end{quote}

    \item {\topic Buddhi,} Ziva Software
        {\teamsize 3-4}
        {\period Apr 2007 - Present}

        \begin{quote}
            A dream to crawl the Web and automagically extract {\hl
            information-content entities} off the crawled pages.
            That is, Buddhi extracts (semi-)structured data out of {\hl
            any} web page without any a priori information about it.
        \end{quote}

        \begin{quote}
            Have been part of the project right from its inception and have
            been managing it for the past few months.
            \begin{itemize}
                \item Developed the initial prototype for a feasibility study.
                \item Designed the {\hl Map-Reduce} based architecture for the
                    system.
                \item Implemented a {\hl focused crawler} based on the {\hl
                    Nutch} open source crawler. The crawler has been deployed
                    and regularly crawls large portions of the Web.
                \item Set up the {\hl Hadoop} based infrastructure for the
                    crawling and extraction.
            \end{itemize}
        \end{quote}

    \item {\topic Zook,} Ziva Software
        {\teamsize 2-3}
        {\period Jan 2007 - Present}

        \begin{quote}
            Ziva Software's flagship mobile search engine. Zook's 1-Click
            Search provides actionable information nuggets instead of a set of
            links to websites that {\hl might} have that information.
        \end{quote}

        \begin{quote}
            Have been involved in all aspects of Zook's development and
            deployment.
            \begin{itemize}
                \item Set up the search system infrastructure.
                \item Designed the {\hl UI} and {\hl UX} of the WAP and SMS
                    interfaces.
                \item Responsible for deploying releases.
                \item Created a HTTP API for accessing the search system.
            \end{itemize}
        \end{quote}

    \pagebreak

    \item {\topic Zivabot,} Ziva Software
        {\teamsize 1}
        {\period Aug 2006 - Oct 2006}
        \begin{quote}
            A scalable, highly-configurable and generic {\hl scraping system}
            for crawling specific websites containing desired information and
            then extracting that information into a pre-defined schema.
        \end{quote}
        \begin{quote}
            Was responsible for the design and implementation of the system.
            Configured the system and set it up to work with an initial set of
            websites; this provided the base content for the launch of Zook.
        \end{quote}

    \item {\topic Better Web Buys}
        {\teamsize 2}
        {\period Feb 2006 - Jun 2006}
        \begin{quote}
            A {\hl faceted price comparison shopping search engine} with over
            20 million items across more than 100 merchants.
        \end{quote}
        \begin{quote}
            Was completely responsible for the implementation right from
            fetching the product feeds, parsing and storing them in a database,
            indexing, searching, user experience and setting up the system on a
            cluster of machines. Used {\hl Sphinx} as the backend full-text
            indexing system.
        \end{quote}

    \item {\topic yadb -- Yet Another DataBase,} IIIT-Bangalore
        {\teamsize 3}
        {\period Aug 2005 - Dec 2005}
        \begin{quote}
            A reasonably {\hl complete RDBMS} with a buffered memory manager,
            B+ tree indexing and a complete database management module
            including support for basic SQL, table management, paged storage
            etc. Part of the {\hl Advanced Databases} course.
        \end{quote}

    \item {\topic Top News,} IIIT-Bangalore
        {\teamsize 1}
        {\period Sep 2005 - Oct 2005}
        \begin{quote}
            A system to bring out the top news of the moment by {\hl clustering
            the news items} obtained from the feeds provided by several news
            sources. Any news item being discussed by multiple sources within a
            given (variable) timeframe is marked as top news. Final project
            for the {\hl Web Information Retreival} course.
        \end{quote}

    \item {\topic SiDuSE,} IIIT-Bangalore
        {\teamsize 2}
        {\period Aug 2004 - Sep 2004}
        \begin{quote}
            A {\hl Simple Desktop Search Engine} for Linux/UNIX systems.
            Creates a Trie-based full-text index of the files on the system.
            Apart from allowing the basic $AND$, $OR$ \& $NOT$ operators, the
            system supports complex querying through nested queries, phrase
            matching and prefix queries. Part of the {\hl Mathematical
            Foundations of Computing} course.
        \end{quote}

    \item {\topic SOS -- S Operating System}
        {\teamsize 2}
        {\period Sep 2002 - Oct 2003}
        \begin{quote}
            A simple monolithic kernel with kernel level threads, kernel level
            IPC and advanced memory management.
        \end{quote}

\end{category}


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\begin{category}{Publication}{}

    \item {\topic Measures of ``Ignorance'' on the Web}
        {\period Dec 2006}
        \begin{quote}
            International Conference on Management of Data, Delhi, India
        \end{quote}

\end{category}


% - Honors ---------------------------------------------------
\begin{category}{Honors}{$\diamond$}

    \item {\hl Valedictorian} for the class for 2006 at IIIT-Bangalore.
    %{\period Jun 2006}

    \item Awarded the {\hl Honeywell Scholarship} for academic excellence
        at IIIT-Bangalore.
    %{\period Jun 2006}

    \item Chosen as the {\hl employee of the year} for 2007-08 at Ziva
        Software.

    \item Adjudged the {\hl best ``Really Needs an Interface''} hack at the
        Yahoo! Open Hackday India 2007.

    \item Elected the president of the IEEE student chapter at the J.B. Institute
        of Engineering \& Technology. Was responsible for organising two of the
        institute's technical festivals in this position.
\end{category}


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