Rujith de Silva

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Objective

A challenging software development position with architectural design and development responsibilities in a product or service delivery team.

Work Experience

Software Engineer, Google (ITA Software), Cambridge, MA.

• Developed flight-search software in Lisp and C++ used as back-end by American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Iberia, Virgin Atlantic, Google Flight Search and many others.
• Managed mission-critical software that handles millions of queries per second from the external partners.
• Managed a team of 21 developers across multiple locations.
• Defined and developed pricing strategies for multiple partner airlines.

Senior Software Engineer, Centive, Bedford, MA.

• Developed and maintained the Centive Incentive Management software, based on J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle, etc.

Architect, Virtusa, Westborough, MA.

• Designed and developed a J2EE-based suite of applications for use in retail stores.
• Created architectural design and handled technical issues for a major client project in product catalog administration.

TimeØ, Perot Systems, Cambridge, MA.

• Developed the MarketCAP platform for Time0's Digital Marketplace systems, serving as Lead Engineer of this team from April 1998 to May 2000. This involved Java, threading, RMI, EJB and ActiveWorks messaging middleware.
• Improved Oracle search performance for an ASP service that performs web-site indexing. Wrote SQL stored procedure for performance-critical search section.
• Designed and developed an electronic commerce system over ActiveWorks middleware. Integrated the middleware into Java, C and Perl, and with third-party software.

Nets, Inc. (Cambridge, MA), and its subsidiary Industry.Net (Pittsburgh, PA).

• Designed, coded and deployed initial Industry.Net web-site in Aug 1994 using Perl5 and NCSA httpd.
• Designed Oracle database schemas to store catalogs and integrated into CGI programs using ProC and Oraperl.
• Developed initial commerce system at Industry.Net using Oraperl based upon consultation with business clients.

Software Programmer, Astromed, Cambridge, England.

• Wrote image processing and image analysis software in C to detect DNA bands in images of DNA fingerprints.

Software Programmer, Qudos, Cambridge, England.

• Modified chip-design CAD package to work with multiple chips and set up layout data for new chips. Modified chip simulator algorithm to handle generic gates.

Software Programmer, GEC Software, London, England.

• Designed software development tools for in-house use and implemented in C as 'helpers' to TenPlus integrated system.

Skills Summary

• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
• Java: Web support, JDBC, Collections
• C/C++: ANSI, threading, gcc
• Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL, SQL DDL & DML, SQLPlus
• Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP
• Misc: XML, Lisp, cryptography

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University , Sep 1991 - Dec 1995. Doctoral candidate in Computer Science. Awarded M.Sc. in Computer Science (Jun 1994).
• University of Cambridge, England. Oct 1988 - Jun 1991. Bachelor of Arts (B.A. (Hons.)) degree in Computer Science.

Publications

• Selectively Delaying Linking Commitments in Partial-Order Planners, European Workshop on Planning, 1995.
• Goal-Clobbering Avoidance in Non-Linear Planners, Student Abstract, Proceedings of AAAI, 1994.

Honours and Awards

• Olivetti Prize for Excellence in Computer Science, by University of Cambridge, June 1991.
• Edwyn Charles Hart Memorial Prize by Churchill College, University of Cambridge, June 1991.
• First place in Class Lists for Computer Science, University of Cambridge, in all three years of the course: 1989, 1990, 1991.
• Churchill College Scholarship, in all three years of the course: 1989, 1990, 1991.
• IEE Scholarship by Institution of Electrical Engineers, U. K., 1991.

U. S. Citizen. References available on request.