AKSHAY MONGA

39 Florence Street, Apt# 310, Malden, MA, 02148 | +1 713-614-0448 |

akshay24@ccs.neu.edu | https://github.com/mongakshay | https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay24
Available: Starting Jan. 2016 | Graduated in Dec. 2015
EDUCATION
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Candidate for Master of Science in Computer Science

Dec. 2015
GPA: 3.83 / 4.0

Courses: Network Security, Parallel Data Processing in Map-Reduce, Databases,

Algorithms, Web Development, Computer Systems, and Information Retrieval

University of Mumbai, India
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
Operating Systems:
Programming languages:
Databases:
Java Frameworks:
Web Technologies:
Software Metric Tools:
Network troubleshooting:
Testing tools:
Cloud Tech & Big Data:

Aug. 2011
Graduated First Class

Unix (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise), Mac OS X, WIN7/8/10

Java, Python, C++, PERL, PLT Scheme, UNIX shell scripting
MS SQL Server 2012, MySQL, MongoDB
Java Struts 2.0, ExecutorService, Java Spring
HTML, CSS, jQuery, JSON
sonarQube, Coverity, McCabe IQ
tcpdump, wireshark, traceroute, netstat, HTTPS, TCP/IP, IPv4/6
Selenium, testNG, pytest, JUnit
vCloud Air Suite, AWS (EMR, EC2, S3), Hadoop (MapReduce)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Member of Technical Staff Intern, VMware Inc, Palo Alto, CA
June Aug. 2015
Project: Virtual Cloud Hybrid Service API performance (Infrastructure As A Service IaaS)
Designed and developed a framework in Java, to measure API performance of vCloud Air Compute On Demand service
Collaborated and worked with geographically dispersed team in various tasks
Created a prototype of multi threaded parallel load testing of public SaaS APIs, using Javas ExecutorService interface
Developed 50+ automation tests for measuring UI, Service Controller, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Metering
& Billing (VMS) service performance using TestNG framework
Displayed the analysis and performance report of the APIs on a fancy dashboard for monitoring production pods
Developed a HTTP Archive (HAR) file creator using selenium tool, to monitor network traffic and developed a HAR file
parser to filter the huge JSON data and generate neat HTML reports for monitoring
System Software Engineer Co-op, Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, MA
Jan May. 2015
Project: Improve productivity of Akamais platform engineering team
Developed a python library which helps caching of PubCookies for any CLI tool accessing PubCookie protected sites
Enhanced and fixed a check-listing and testing tool currently used for testing Akamai instances in a test environment
Created several BASH and PERL scripts, which optimized and leveraged the upgrade and deployment process
Developed a Perforce(P4) wrapper script in python which speeds up various manual build and release tasks
Learnt and understood internals of HTTPS protocol and used Wireshark to better debug server responses
Teaching Assistant, Object Oriented Design, Northeastern University

Sept 2014 - Dec. 2014

Moodys Analytics, San Francisco, CA

June - Aug. 2014
Title: Software Metric Intern. Project: Java Parallel Processing Framework (JPPF) & Moody GRID engine Integration
Designed and developed a proof of concept for integrating Moodys grid engine with JPPF
Explored sonarQube and Coverity tools to detect software metrics data and access current software performance
Build end-to-end python based portal to view software metrics data from sonarQubes static analysis of the code
Optimized the parallel computing performance of the product suites by significantly decreasing latency for massive jobs
Integrate Coverity tool into Moodys stress testing platform; fixed major security and performance issues
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd, India
June. 2011 - July. 2013
Title: Software Engineer Project: Global Craft Access System Client: AT&T, Chicago
Designed, developed and Maintained a system that AT&T technicians can use to track their thousands of daily tasks
Enhanced the UI design of the web application by making it more intuitive and perform faster
Delivered seminar on Java Struts, Java coding standards and Custom tag libraries
Worked on technologies like Java Struts 2.0, jQuery, JavaScript, and Oracle 10g

AKSHAY MONGA
39 Florence Street, Apt# 310, Malden, MA, 02148 | +1 713-614-0448 |
akshay24@ccs.neu.edu | https://github.com/mongakshay | https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay24
Available: Starting Jan. 2016 | Graduated in Dec. 2015

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
K - Means Clustering on Twitter dataset using Map-Reduce in Java (Hadoop)
Find the most popular, moderately popular and least popular clusters of friend of a given user.
The dataset includes 284 million following relationships, 3 million user profiles and 50 million tweets.
Optimized the code using distributed caching and parallel processing using Map Reduce in Java

Nov. 2015

Secure Instant Messenger in python

Nov. 2015
Proposed an architecture and design for a secure instant messaging system
Implemented Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol for secure client server remote authentication
Implemented secure Diffie Hellman key exchange for Client-to-Client session key generation
Security against DoS, Man-In-Middle, Packet Sniffing, Identity spoofing, password cracking, session hijacking attacks
Protocols used SRP, AES 128 (CBC Mode), RSA 4096 bit key size, SHA 256
Secure socket communication in python
Implemented RSA and AES encryption algorithm in python
Made communication secure using AES 128 (CBC Mode), RSA 4096 bit key size, SHA 256

Oct. 2015

Computer Systems Projects in C

Sept. 2014
Implemented the File Allocation Table file system in C language, using FUSE interface
Implemented Mirroring, Striping, and Raid 4 in C language
Implemented sleeping barber problem using POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) Threads in C language
Designed a mini OS, which performs context switching, loading and execute tiny programs from the file system
Information Retrieval Projects in python
Implemented the famous BM25 page-ranking algorithm using python
Implemented an iterative page rank algorithm in python to rank collection of 500k web crawled documents
Implemented a web crawler to extract and filter links up to a given depth of web pages, using python

Sept. 2014

Responsive Design Website- Total Fitness Club

March. 2014
Link to project: http://net4.ccs.neu.edu/home/akshay24/project/projectHomePage.aspx
Link to personal website: http://net4.ccs.neu.edu/home/akshay24
Designed a fully responsive web app with intensive use of jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, RESTful APIs
Optimized the entire UI of the desktop site for Mobile view using CSS, JQuery UI, HTML
Website included handcrafted tools and features like Body Mass Index calculator, Online Fitness/workout
Videos portal, Food Recipe search engine, Portal to record and keep track of Exercise/Weight/Food, Buy and sell
fitness products online, Health News Feeds, Locate fitness stores using users GeoLocation and city based search
Car Rental System using an ODATA endpoint
Sept. 2013
Developed a car rental web application in .NET and exposed project data as URI feeds using OData protocol
Developed the front end of the website using HTML, CSS, AJAX, C#, JavaScript
Optimized the UI for mobile view