Akshay Viswanathan

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Contact Info
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Engineering Manager with expertise across the stack, building Airtel Xstream and XSafe…

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  • Airtel Digital

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Courses

  • Advanced Computer Architecture

    CSE 590

  • Analysis of Algorithms

    CSE 531

  • Computer Security

    CSE 565

  • Independent Study- Windows RT Application development

    CSE 701

  • Introduction to Machine Learning

    CSE 574

  • Introduction to Operating System (OS161 Hacking the Kernel)

    CSE 521

  • Seminar on Big Data

    CSE 722

  • Wireless Network Security

    CSE 566

Projects

  • LifeSaver

    Android application that fetches Blood Bank, Hospital and Dispensary data from data.gov.in using REST calls and displays the list to the user. It provides short cuts to call, email, get directions to the selected facility. This app is different from looking for the above in Google Maps as it provides only those facilities that are recognized by the government. This will exclude local facilities and clinics setup without govt approval.
    Features in Development:
    - Sort the list of data based…

    Android application that fetches Blood Bank, Hospital and Dispensary data from data.gov.in using REST calls and displays the list to the user. It provides short cuts to call, email, get directions to the selected facility. This app is different from looking for the above in Google Maps as it provides only those facilities that are recognized by the government. This will exclude local facilities and clinics setup without govt approval.
    Features in Development:
    - Sort the list of data based on names (alphabetical) and location
    - Filter the list as per location / pin code
    - Use the user's location to show local information by default unless selected otherwise by the user.

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  • Data Mining

    - Implementing different clustering algorithms like Apriori algorithm, K-means and Markov-clustering on the given set of data using Hadoop and Java from scratch.
    - Comparing the results of the clustering algorithms and classifying their efficiency based on the ideal data provided.

  • Hacking the Kernel

    - Present

    Reading and understanding the OS/161 kernel code, an instructional Operating System having a BSD-like portable kernel.
    -- Understanding and Implementing core operating system concepts like synchronization primitives, scheduling, system calls and virtual memory subsystem in C.
    -- Whalemating and stoplight problems

  • UB Talker

    - Present

    Augmentative Communication application for speech impaired individuals on Windows 8 / RT using C#.
    Main Features :
    -- Application will primarily allow individual to communicate with the world using TTS engines on the tablet devices.
    -- The UI will display buttons / tiles to click on to speak out sentences and phrases.
    -- Phrase and icon categories were based on the location of the individual (at work, shopping, home etc.)
    -- User of different voices for different age groups.

  • Computer Security Projects

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    Email Forensics with DKIM, Vulnerability Analysis and mitigation Wireshark, Webgoat.

  • Simpella

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    Stripped down version of Gnutella protocol for peer-peer file transfer between multiple clients in Java. Setting up of dedicated connections between peers, specified packet formats, persisting connections and sending and receiving files.

  • File Integrity Checker

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    1) Studied the fundamentals of File Integrity Checkers
    2) Researched and Analyzed Samhain File Integrity Checker architecture and working on *NIX systems
    3) Compared performance of database initialization and checking of 6 different File Integrity Checkers.
    4) Designed a file integrity checker after comparing the pros and cons of above 5 FIC

    Other creators

  • Musterion - Steganography

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    Worked on creating and implementing a new technique of steganography. Implemented a basic version of the technique in Java to encrypt, send , receive and decrypt information.

Languages

  • English

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  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

    Limited working proficiency

  • German

    Elementary proficiency

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