Pradeep Gore

Objective

Software Development in the area of Distributed, Real-Time and Embedded Systems using Middleware, C++ and Design Patterns

Summary of qualifications

• M.S. Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis, 2000
• B.S. Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, India, 1995
• Programming languages: C++, Java, C, Perl
• Operating Systems:Linux/Unix, Windows, Palm
• Object Technologies: CORBA, UML, COM/DCOM
• Middleware: TAO - A Real Time CORBA Object Request Broker
• Frameworks: ACE - An Object Oriented Network programming toolkit in C++
• Libraries: Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), BOOST
• Software Tools: Emacs, VC++, Purify, Quantify

Areas of Expertise

• In depth knowledge of issues and solutions for Event Driven Architectures.
• Extensive exposure to large scale multi-threading architecture design and implementation.
• Deep understanding and implementation experience in the CORBA Distributed Computing standard.
• Advanced C++ programming skills including generic programming with templates and design patterns.
• Experienced in developing solutions for Real-Time behavior.

Professional experience

OOMWorks LLC, Metuchen NJ

Real-Time Notification Service, Jan 2002 - June 2003

• Designed and implemented  the Real-Time Notification Service for TAO.

• Performed empirical experiments to verify minimal latency, high throughput and predictable behavior.

• Presented the performance numbers at the TAO'03 Workshop.

Optimization of RTCORBA 1.0 in TAO,  June 2003 - July 2003

• Optimized the Connection Management of TAO to create exclusive connections for ThreadPools.

Test framework for Real-Time CORBA 1.0 , June 2001 - Jan 2002

• Wrote a generic scripting based test framework to measure the performance of Real-Time CORBA 1.0.

CORBA compliant Messaging Framework for Java KVM, Feb 2001 - June 2001 

• Developed a Messaging framework that allows Java applications running on the Java KVM to transparently communicate to standard CORBA services using a gateway.

Performance of Embedded OS, Dec 2000 - Feb 2001  

• Wrote a test suite to measure the performance of wireless communication on Palm OS and Java KVM.

Motorola, Schaumburg IL with the Trunking Controller group (Internship)

• Call processing using CORBA, May 1999 - August 1999
  Designed and implemented a framework for call processing between subscribers and trunking controllers, and also addressed the issue of integrating CORBA with legacy code.

Corel Corporation, Ottawa, (ON), Canada

• Java Quattro Pro
  Augmented the spreadsheet parser code with an expression stack to optimize formula recalculations.

• SAMBA Java wrapper
  Implemented Java wrapper classes over the Linux SAMBA code to allow Java developers to write a GUI to browse machines on a network.

• Linux
  Ported the x86 Linux FTP FileSystem(UserFS) code to Corel Computer's Netwinder.

• Paradox 9 DBMS
  Reimplemented parts of the Paradox OPAL compiler to solve compatibility issues with moving from Borland to Microsoft's C++ compiler.

Ruksun Software Technologies Ltd. Pune, India, June 1995 - Jan 1997

• WYSIWYG HTML Editor
  Designed and implemented the GUI and text editing components of a WYSIWYG HTML Editor in C++ using MFC and COM.

Technical Papers and Presentations.

• Pradeep Gore et al Designing and Optimizing a Scalable CORBA Notification Service , ( PowerPoint Presentation )
  ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Optimization of Middleware and Distributed Systems (OM 2001) June 18, 2001
  

• Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Irfan Pyarali, Pradeep Gore, and Craig Rodrigues, Using Prioritized Network Traffic to Achieve End-to-End Predictability, OMG's Real-time and Embedded Distributed Object Computing Workshop in Arlington, VA, July, 2002.

References

Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt
Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University,
Phone: (615) 343-8197, E-Mail:d.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu