1. Vaibhav Arvind Kinikar
1204 W Adams Blvd Apt 27, Los Angeles, CA 90007
(323) 283-2164 | kinikar@usc.edu
Profile: www.linkedin.com/pub/vaibhav-arvind-kinikar/8a/7a9/b2a
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Viterbi School of Engineering Aug 2014 - Present
Master of Science, Computer Science Expected May 2016
Courses: Analysis of Algorithms, Database Systems, Web Technologies, Operating Systems,
Information Retrieval & Web Search Engines.
BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India June 2014
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
Courses: Operating Systems, Data Structures, Analysis & Design of Algorithms, C, C++, Java, Computer Networks,
Web Programming, Database Management Systems, Cloud Computing , Artificial Intelligence.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, SQL, Python
Web Technologies: Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, XML, PHP, jQuery, D3
Operating Systems: Linux, Android, OSX, Windows
IDE/Tools: MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, VMware, Adobe Dreamweaver, Netbeans
Technologies/Platforms: Android SDK Framework, Banana, FacetView, Oracle11g, SQL Server
WORK EXPERIENCE
Intern , SourceN India PVT LTD June – July 2012
Project: Garbage City
Technologies: C#, MS Visual Studio, Windows Phone Emulator and SDK
Developed a Windows Phone Application having attributes -
Sign in with Facebook
Take pictures with geo-tagging enabled and save to gallery
Upload to garbage city server
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Kernel Programming: Weenix OS
Implemented kernel level bootstrap code, virtual file system handling, mutex handling, and process/thread creation
at kernel level. Included memory mapping, virtual memory implementation and interfacing with low-level drivers.
Crawling and Deduplication of Polar Datasets Using Apache Nutch and Tika
Crawled & acquired as much data as possible from polar and arctic data repositories. Developed two de-duplication
algorithms to construct two URL filter plugins to identify exact and near duplicates from the crawled data.
Visual Search and Interaction with Polar Datasets using D3, Banana and FacetView
Constructed a single unified web interface which uses D3.js, Banana and FacetView to interact and visualize with the
search engine Polar Data. The web dashboard allows user to query the Solr index and can visualize the results by
selecting one of the D3 visualizations. Also, the results can be viewed by using Banana and FacetView.
Android Application for Property Search
Designed and developed an android application to provide property details based on the input address and incorpo-
rated Facebook API to post text and pictures to Facebook.
Property search using Zillow & Bootstrap, JQuery and Facebook Mashup
Technologies: AJAX, JSON, HTML5, CSS3, DOM, XMLHttpRequest, XML and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud AWS.
Developed a web-application which provides an interface to perform property search from Zillow and post details
to Facebook using Facebook API. Application was deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk .
Social Networking Website
Technologies: JAVA, HTML, CSS and MySql
Developed a social platform to connect various people from different regions. Designed features like sign-up, sending
friend request, new user register alert via e-mails to existing users and sharing images.