Anand Pandharikar

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Worked in Tata Elxsi Ltd, India ( SEI-CMM 5 company), 

in Real Time / Embedded Systems group since Nov 1998.

Qualification :

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B.E. Electronics and Telecommunication.

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Diploma in Advanced Computing ,CDAC, Bangalore.(DAC)

Recent Achievements :

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Will be presenting a paper on "High Availability Embedded Systems" in  Embedded Systems Conference (2003)

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University ranking 6 in B.S. (final year).

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College topper for all four years of engineering.

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Grade A in DAC.('98)

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Spot reward by Chief Technology Officer, Tata Elxsi for initiative taken in Windows CE  technology ('99)

Scholarships and awards :

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Sir Ratan Tata trust scholarship for engineering education.(1994-98)

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National merit scholarship by govt. of Maharashtra(1992-94) 

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Middle school scholarship by govt. of Maharashtra.(1989-92) 

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Homi Bhabha 'Junior scientist' award (1991)

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Selected for interview in Maharashtra Talent Search (1991) and Bombay Talent Search(1990) exams conducted by Bombay Centre for Talent Search. (BCTS)

Experience :

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“Compiler development for Network Processor”. Processor  has a specialized language (subset of C) suitable for

networking applications. Platform Linux 7.0 / WinNT 4.0 

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“ARP/RARP cache management module using CAM” 

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Developed CIDR / LPM module using CAM. (VxWorks)

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Worked on-site at San Jose for networking company on 

CAM (search) based network coprocessor. (June '00 to Sept'00)Platform: VxWorks

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Worked on Design and Development of real time operating system, HDLC driver and ATM driver for ATM/HDLC bridge.

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Worked on Windows CE adaptation on MIPS R5OOO evaluation board. Platform MIPS R5000

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Windows NT display driver for TV  to display card. Carried out at Softland Ltd, Bangalore as a part of CDAC diploma.

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Computerised geological measurements. B.E. final year project.

Other  (not so junk !) activities 

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Selected as Class representative for 2nd, 3rd and final year of engg. ('96,'97, '98)

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Represented COEB for University youth festival for spot-drawing competition  ('97)

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Green belt holder of Kung-Fu (FUSHI-DO training school)(@'94)

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Collected a record amount of funds from Borivali(bombay) area for National Blind Association (@'89-90)

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Qualified in state conducted 'intermediate' level drawing exam. ('92)

Special interests

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Embedded systems(mostly S/W), RTOS, device drivers, EDA tools, H/W- S/W co' stuff, SOC, protocols.

Computer skills

Operating Systems internals

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Windows CE, Win NT, Win 95, SCO Unix, pSOS, VxWorks., Cisco IOS (now learning !)

Programming Languages

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C, C++, Java, Visual C++ , Visual Basic, Fortran, Ada(learning), x86 assembly, MIPS assembly(learning) , PL -SQL.

Scripting Languages

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Pearl, shell script, JavaScript, VBScript, awk programming.

Front End tools 

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Developer 2000, Designer 2000, Power Builder, VB.

Databases

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Oracle ,Informix.

OO Methodologies

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Booch, OMT, UML.

Middleware

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COM, DCOM, CORBA(learning),ActiveX, JavaBeans(learning).

Java IDE

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Symantec Visual Cafe`, JBuilder, JPatPro, KAWA.

Networking

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TCP/IP, SNMP, 802.3,4,5., ATM, H.323 (learning).

HDL

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VHDL (learning), Verilog

Hobbies:

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Hypnotism, Reading( mostly techno-sophy), BMX-riding, Martial arts, Sci-Fi stuff, Airomodelling,..........blah,blah..........life is so interesting !!!