Experienced Java Server side Engineer Specialties: - Expertise in development of robust, scalable & maintainable Enterprise Applications

Sr. Member of Technical Staff @ From June 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Cupertino, CASenior Software Engineer @ • Responsible for feature development and maintenance of the Search and Search analytics components of Clearwell • Designed and implemented an index to improve the facet count generation for a search request by over 240x • Decreased the overall response time for a Search request by 2x through continual improvement of algorithms and caching strategies • Reduced the memory footprint of BitMaps by 5x by improving the RLE algorithm • Improved the cache hit rate for Search requests by 2x by implementing memory size aware cache infrastructure for caching asymmetrical objects • Wrote a fast ID conversion service capable of converting millions of ids per second • Decreased the overall processing time of Search Analytics by over 40% • Led a team of 3 to upgrade Lucene from V2.4 to 3.6 and ensuring that the system is backward compatible From July 2011 to June 2013 (2 years) Mountain View, CAStaff Software Engineer @ Worked on performance improvements for Indexing and Search Analytics. Company got acquired by Symantec in July 2011. From August 2010 to July 2011 (1 year) Mountain View, CAStudent Intern @ I worked on developing a image similarity web-application for Nasa Ames Research Center. I was responsible for • Overall design and architecture of the web application • Design the database schema • Implemented a web crawler to index the metadata and download the images • Implement Histogram Of Oriented Gradients algorithm. You can access the application from here: http://byss.arc.nasa.gov/cbm/ From May 2010 to August 2010 (4 months) Moffett Field, CAResearch Assistant @ Developed a life logging system that records one's life experience as a multimedia database. Used statistical natural language processing techniques to index, recognize, cluster, retrieve and infer high-level semantic meanings of life logs. • Designed and developed “Life logger System” • Developed web services in Ruby on Rails for storing & retrieving user context information • Integrated web services with mobile client, developed in mobile python (PyS60) • Integrated the application with Natural Language toolkit to analyze behavior text From August 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 1 month) Mountain View, CATechnical Lead, Developer @ Developed Parameter Handling tool used by Ericsson GDC's for supporting their software build. • Analyzed requirements and developed the functional and technical design documentation • Lead a team in developing front end of the application using Java Swing and developed services using RMI • Achieved over 40% performance improvement across the system by identifying and resolving bottlenecks • Mentored a team of 6 with technical and functional knowledge Highlights: • Awarded “Star of the quarter” by Ericsson for my contribution towards development and successful release of a critical upgrade From September 2008 to August 2009 (1 year) Developer @ Developed various web applications for GE Capital Solutions Fleet Services. Predominantly, worked on a web application development that would automate a payment request process for fleet management. • Played the role of a module lead responsible for supervising a team of 6 developers. • Developed a proof-of-concept application to check the feasibility of the framework and architecture for My.Supplier Portal Project • Developed the web layer of the application using Java with Spring-framework & backend using Oracle PL/SQL • Prepared design documents and conducted code reviews • Improved the application’s performance by tuning PL/SQL and optimizing server side code using OptimizeIT • Improved the application’s performance by implementing Ajax Highlights: • Awarded twice by GE Capital Solutions for my contribution towards development of My.Supplier Portal and Title & License projects • Automated a manual report generation process that resulted in over 50,000$ savings annually to GE Capital Solutions. Defended this as my Six Sigma Green Belt Project From May 2006 to August 2008 (2 years 4 months)

M.S, Software Engineering @ Carnegie Mellon University From 2009 to 2010 B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering @ Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University From 2002 to 2006 St. Patricks High School Snehal Chennuru is skilled in: Java, Enterprise Search, MySQL, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java Enterprise Edition, Object Oriented Design, Lucene, Oracle, Web Applications, AJAX, Databases, Web Services, Algorithms, Scalability, JUnit, Hibernate, XML, Linux