Shitanshu Aggarwal
saggarwal.90@gmail.com
#3030, 1115 8th Ave
Grinnell, IA 50112
(717) 538-9958

Education: 
B.A., Computer Science & Neuroscience, May 2011 (expected)

Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. Major GPA: 3.76

Skills
Proficient: C, Java, Scheme, C++, CUDA, PHP, SQL, HTML
Familiar: PIC Assembly, MATLAB, prolog, BASIC, javascript, python
Environments: Linux/Unix, Windows 7/XP, Mac OS X, iPhone OS
Tools: SVN, Git, xUnit, DDD, Make, Eclipse, Emacs, pnotepad, bash, cron, Lyx
Languages: English (native), Hindi (native), Punjabi (native), German (conversational) 
Related Experience

Web Application Developer (March 2009-Present)
Grinnell College, Information Technology Services, Grinnell, IA
* Maintaining the technology consultants' award-winning open source scheduling, database, time clock & timesheet management system, TCDB (Technology Consultant Database).
* Maintaining the web application server (running Debian Linux) & code repository.
* Rewriting the application completely with OO (Object-Oriented) PHP to
make it easier for future development and maintenance.
* TCDB has 110 users and is used to clock an average of 60 shifts a day.


Server Administrator (April 2009-Present)
Grinnell College, Information Technology Services, Grinnell, IA
* Maintaining & backing up the equipment checkout system server (running Debian Linux).
* Coordinating with the Audio Visual Center and the Software providers to keep the system up-to-date, keeping service disruption at the minimum.

Technology Consultant (November 2008-Present)
Grinnell College, Information Technology Services, Grinnell, IA
* Staffing various on-campus computing facilities.
* Helping students and faculty troubleshoot problems with applications and network services.
* Repairing non-functional computers.
* Mentoring 6 trainees for the technology consultants program.

Undergraduate Researcher (May,2009-September,2009)
Grinnell College, Department of Computer Science, Grinnell, IA
* Researched on modern machine learning, computer vision and scene text recognition technologies
* Designed, implemented (using NVIDIA's CUDA framework), tested and benchmarked a parallelized maximum entropy learning model.
* Improved training speed by a factor of 31x over the previous implementation.
* Presented at a major undergraduate research conference.

Teaching Assistant (January,2010-Present)
Grinnell College, Department of Computer Science, Grinnell, IA
* Mentoring lab sessions for a class of 35 students with minimal CS background

Computer Science Tutor (October,2009-Present)
Grinnell College, Department of Computer Science, Grinnell, IA
* Tutoring students in computer science concepts such as functional and object oriented programming.

Lab Mentor (September,2009-October,2009)
Grinnell College, Department of Physics, Grinnell, IA
* Conducted lab sessions for 20 introductory level physics students.

Coursework: Automata, Formal Language & Complexity Theory (in progress); Compilers (in progress); Artificial Intelligence; Analysis of Algorithms; Memory Management, Data Representation, and Formal Methods; Combinatorics; Databases & Web Application Design; Electronics w/ Lab; Linear Algebra; Human Computer Interaction; Modern Physics.