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Of
Koustav Halder


Career Objective

Seeking for a promising career as an Application Developer or Software Engineer in a reputed company where I can provide quality service through my hard and sincere work and using all the experiences and knowledge I have gathered while working in various projects in my domain.


Personal Information

Name: Koustav Halder
Gender: Male
Status: Single
Email:
Mobile: 9333451868
Tel: 03325624812

Education

Bachelor of Technology (Hons) in Computer Science & Egg from IIT Kharagpur
Year of Passing: 2003
CGPA: 6.68

Higher Secondary Education Vivekananda Centenary College, Khardah
Year of Passing: 1996
Percentage: 61

Secondary Education Xt. Xavier's School, Haldia Township
Year of Passing: 1994
Percentage: 80.2


IT Experience (2 years)

Junior Programmer, SRIC IIT Kharagpur (1 yr 5 months, May 2004 – Nov 2005):
Role: Involved in a project, based on Wireless Sensor Network for the Indian Railway System, where job was to write network applications in NesC and develop a visual monitoring system in Java using Swings and Serial Port Communications.

Software Expert, Kasamba Inc. USA (6 months, Dec 2005 – June 2006)

Worked for the popular on line expert advice site called Kasamba Inc as an expert in Computers and Programming having provided software solutions in C, C++, Core Java, Databases, Perl, Python and Web Applications using PHP to various clients with over 46 projects having completed.




Skills and Knowledge


1. Operating Systems
Unix, Linux (Mandrake 8.2, Fedora Core 1, Red Hat 9, Debian), DEC
Windows2000, Windows98

2. Languages
C, C++
Core Java
Perl, Python
Unix Shell Scripting
SQL

3. Databases
MySQL
Postgresql

4. Graphical User Interfaces
Java Swings, AWT
GTK 1.2 (Gimp Toolkit)
X-Windows Programming
QT 3
Tkinters

5. Networking
Berkeley Socket Programming (TCP/IP) in C
Java TCP/IP Socket Programming

6. Tools Used
IntelliJ, Eclipse (IDE for Java Development)
GDB (Debugging tool for C,C++ in Unix, Linux based systems)
Kdeveloper (IDE for C,C++ for Linux based systems)
Qt Designer ( IDE for developing GUIs in Qt)












IT Projects


Project #1


Title Online monitoring system for Indian Railway System based on Wireless Sensor Network
Description The objective of the project was to monitor the Indian Railway System for the detection of any accident or hazard prone situations at an early stage so as to avoid any kind of human damage or inconveniences using a network of motes (tiny devices with embedded sensors).
Designation Junior Programmer
Employer SRIC, IIT Kharagpur
Role Developing nesc applications for operating the motes, a graphical panel for online monitoring of the motes, serial port communication
Platform Linux
Technologies Used Wireless Sensor Network, Nesc, Core Java and Swings


Project #2


Title Instant Messenger
Description Developing a graphical messenger application like Yahoo/MSN, supporting features like files transfer, chat with emoticons, address book, and contact lists.
Client Kasamba Inc, USA
Platform OS Independent
Technologies Used Core Java, Swings, JDBC, TCP/IP Socket Programming, SQL


Project #3


Title Tourist Office Management System
Description A graphical tourist office management application in Java supporting features like Booking Rooms, Checking Room Availability and Browsing Hotels. Java Serialization was used for storing all tourists and customer related information’s and GUI developed on top of Swings.

Client Kasamba Inc, USA
Platform OS Independent
Technologies Used Core Java, Swings







Project #4


Title Online Dating Application
Description A client /server based dating application using MySQL database as the server side storage of all dating related information’s. The application had a server program running in the server machine to handle all dating related client requests a client application to be executed from any remote machine to connect to the server with proper authentication and request various dating related queries. The client/server communication was implemented on top of TCP/IP protocol using BSD Socket Library API.

Client Kasamba Inc, USA
Platform Unix /Linux
Technologies Used C++, TCP/IP Socket Programming, MySQL connectivity

Project #5


Title T9 Mobile Simulation
Description A GUI based prototype application demonstrating the usage of today’s T9 mobile phones for fast and efficient text messaging.

Client Kasamba Inc, USA
Platform OS Independent
Technologies Used Core Java, Swings

Project #6


Title Developing an application which will translate a source language string to a target language string using a translation memory system
Description A translation memory system is a record of pairs of source language string and the target language string with other miscellaneous information which will be looked up by search utility functions for translating any given source language string into the most closely matched target strings.

Client Kasamba Inc, USA
Platform Unix / Linux
Technologies Used C with Advanced Data Structures

Project #7


Title A web portal for customers share portfolio
Description Developing a share portfolio web portal for a share market agent which will help to manage and process all the share related transactions of their customers like buying shares, selling shares, viewing all trade statements, calculating net profits etc.
Client Kasamba Inc, USA
Platform OS Independent
Technologies Used PHP, MySQL, HTML, Javascript, MySQL

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