* 6+ years of experience in building scalable and multi-tiered enterprise-wide applications. * Passionate about designing simple and innovative solutions to solve challenging problems. * Strong leadership and problem solving skills to help deliver products right from design to implementation. Skills: Programming Languages: Java, C, C++ Web Technologies: J2EE–JSP/Servlets, Struts, JMS, Web Services, Ajax, Hibernate & GWT DBMS: Oracle – SQL/PL-SQL, MySQL, SQL Server, No-SQL Mobile & Cloud Technologies: Android, Hadoop – Map-Reduce, Amazon EC2

Software Engineer @ Working with the core engineering team at Groupon to build a robust & generic framework for Search Relevance. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Software Development Engineer @ * Led a team of 4 engineers to develop and deliver various features for Email & Calendar app on Kindle Fire Tablet & Phone. From October 2013 to August 2015 (1 year 11 months) Software Development Engineer @ Kindle Content Versioning * Invented a unique version control algorithm for kindle eBooks and designed a platform to allow clients migrate content and metadata between different versions of a kindle eBook. * Built technologies to facilitate successful launch of Kindle Serials – eBooks that are written in episodes and delivered to customers as the author publishes new versions. * Engineered scalable front end and backend systems for Kindle Content Quality program to offer eBook updates to customers through self-service portal, email and automatic updates. * Improved customer satisfaction and experience by reducing the turn around time of delivering eBook updates from a couple of weeks to a few hours. From February 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 8 months) Greater Seattle AreaSystems Staff @ Assisted System Administrators to manage IT Facilities at the Computer Science Department. Key Accomplishments : Diagnosed and troubleshooted Network & Hardware issues. Created Backup and Restore checkpoints. Installed new servers and workstations in department labs. Assisted in Migration of WebMail to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Suggested improvements in class room management tools so as to have a better experience for both students as well as professors. Managed inventory, ordered quotations, negotiated and finalized order for hardware/software required in the department. Presently working on implementing Virtualization using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and deploying Operating System Images and Software packages using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Microsoft Deployment Tookit (MDT). From February 2010 to December 2010 (11 months) Graduate Student @ Researching on "Applications of Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing in building Usable Security Systems" and "Web Content Analysis" at the SPLAT Lab with Prof. Rob Johnson. Projects Completed: Wikipedia Vandalism Detection - Masters Thesis Authored "Wiki Vandalysis - Wikipedia Vandalism Analysis" paper for the Plagiarism and Vandalism Detection Workshop (PAN 2010) while leading a team of 3. Developed automatic vandalism detection software for Wikipedia using machine learning techniques. Utilized Hadoop - Map Reduce and Amazon EC2 to boost up speed of training and evaluation. Phorcefield - A Phish Proof Password Ceremony Designed and implemented Phorcefield, a Phish-Proof graphical password prompt in a team of 4. Developed J2EE/GWT and MySQL based web applications and analysis tools to simulate a sophisticated phishing attack for evaluating the phishing resistance of Phorcefield. Provisioning HTTP File Requests Transparently Created system call hooks using ptrace for provisioning seamless access of HTTP les in Linux. Stony Brook Private Cloud Setup and Benchmarking Led a team of 4 to setup complete hardware infrastructure of a Eucalyptus based private cloud. Benchmarked performance stats of the private cloud including energy consumption (PUE & DCiE), VM loading/termination and task execution time for different instance sizes and load settings. Privacy Issues with Social Networking Sites Analyzed visibility of MySpace.com users on search engines using different combinations of attributes extracted by scraping their public profiles for several categories of searchers using PHP and MySQL. Google Ocean - Marine Sciences Database Project Facilitated integration of real time oceanic observation of Long Island Sound along with location tracking of the ferry in Google Earth using J2EE, KML and MySQL. Customized a SharePoint website for the project to manage reports, tasks and calendars. From August 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 5 months) Software Developer @ I had an opportunity to work at CB Insights, a startup company in the New York City working on providing Intelligence on High Growth Private companies. My achievements as a Software Developer: Reduced 70% of the manual work to run daily business and keep equity financing data updated for customers by engineering algorithms to extract entities from unstructured news sources on the web. Facilitated integration of entities extracted with existing database by building a GWT-based admin tool to perform data de-duplication, customize various parameters and manage cron jobs. Developed Funding Discovery Engine, a tool for entrepreneurs to algorithmically mine past equity financing events and discover best matching investors for their business. Pipelined the data in-flow from various news sources into respective databases by developing a news categorization tool using machine learning and text categorization techniques. From June 2010 to August 2010 (3 months) Software Developer @ Architected complete middle and backend tier for Classroom Management and Search Tool. Systematized access of class-room information by implementing a XML based web service framework using SharePoint, ASP.NET and SQL Server. From November 2009 to January 2010 (3 months) Assistant Systems Engineer @ Involved in all phases of SDLC to design, develop and enhance applications of Cisco Sales-IT team. Automated complete work-flow of Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) by developing an Excel to Oracle Extraction, Transformation and Loading tool. Simplified generation of Global Compensation Report by automating aggregation of results from CSAT and other surveys. Supported and enhanced the integration of Salesforce.com CRM with Siebel and Oracle based applications using J2EE and TIBCO components using JMS as the communication channel. Prototyped and re-engineered several CGI/PERL applications to J2EE and SalesForce CRM. Localized complete user interface of a news publishing application for Japanese using J2EE-Struts. From August 2007 to July 2009 (2 years) Software Developer @ Improved scalability and usability of the leave application system by leading a team of 4 to develop Employee Leave Application System for Mobile using J2ME, WML, ASP 3.0 and Oracle. From October 2006 to March 2007 (6 months)

Masters of Science, Computer Science @ Stony Brook University From 2009 to 2010 Bachelors, Information Technology @ Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute(VJTI), Mumbai From 2004 to 2007 Diploma, Computer Technology @ Vivekanand Education Society's Polytechnic (VESP), Mumbai From 2002 to 2004 General Education Academy Manoj Harpalani is skilled in: C++, Java, Eclipse, C, MySQL, Perl, AJAX, Tomcat, Web Services, Visual Studio, Hibernate, NetBeans, PHP, MapReduce, Struts