Narsimham Chelluri

Keyboard Cowboy
nchelluri@gmail.com

Summary
I am a generalist. I like to hack to solve problems and refactor until I've got robust and maintainable
software.

Specialties
PHP.

Experience
Senior Software Developer at Ning
September 2010 - Present (7 months)
PHP, Java, C developer.

My team develops the Ning social network application. This involves primarily PHP development
but also sometimes full-stack coding involving services (Java, Oracle/MySQL) and platform layers
(LAMP runtime, PHP Extensions).

megadev at In Your Hood

June 2010 - Present (10 months)
PHP, Objective-C developer.

Nearby event-and-place listings shared to your mobile phone, anywhere in Vancouver.

Software Developer at Storm8

May 2010 - June 2010 (2 months)
iPhone MMO development: I contributed to the five of the hit Storm 8 games (World War,
iMobsters, Racing Live, Vampires Live, Farm Story), implementing both client-side and server side
features.

Software Developer at Ning

October 2009 - April 2010 (7 months)
Java, PHP & Javascript Developer working on the Ning social networking platform.

My team developed the new Ning Photos app, deployed the Network Discovery tool, implemented
Network Creation for a new version of the platform, logged and classified millions of browser activity
events, deployed anti-spam tools, and trouble-shot production issues.
7 recommendations available upon request

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Software Developer at uptime software
September 2008 - September 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Java, PHP, C# developer. VMware Web Services SDK applications programming. Web
Development (PHP, JavaScript).

Contributed to the release of the server monitoring and management platform up.time versions 5.1,
5.2, and 6.0. This included data collection through JMX, SNMP, and other APIs, scheduling of
monitoring, management, and reporting threads, generating graphical reports from analysis of
gathered data, multi-platform compilation and installer creation (two Linux versions, Solaris, and
Windows). Data storage was using an in-house Java ORM that worked using reflection and XML
and allowed easy access to write custom SQL that worked in Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server.

Other duties included analysis and maintenance of the in-house platform data gathering agents,
Java and C# Windows VMware infrastructure discovery and monitoring tools, and maintenance and
extension of the PHP/JavaScript front-end.
1 recommendation available upon request

Software Developer at Kaboose Inc.

October 2007 - August 2008 (11 months)
Web developer (Rails, MySQL).

Developed and deployed an AJAX co-registration platform that generated 25,000+ leads per
month.

Created a sandboxed editing and syndication platform for the Kaboose.com top navigation bar, a
drop-down menu system that received 2.5 million+ hits per month.
3 recommendations available upon request

Intern Software Developer at Brocade

May 2001 - August 2003 (2 years 4 months)
Coded a web application to manage hardware certification data (J2EE); a diagnostic application for
fibre channel switches (Java, Swing); automated diagnostic and configuration harnesses for fibre
channel switches and devices (Perl).

Worked 3 summers from 2001-2003.

Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Mathematics (Honors Computer Science), Theatre Minor, 2002 - 2007
Activities and Societies: Waterloo Public Interest Research Group

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