Avinash JoshiNo 11104, Tiara, Monte Carlo Complex

Yelahanka New TownBangalore 560064

H +91 989 549 4427B avinashtjoshi@gmail.comÍ http://avinashjoshi.co.in

ObjectiveTo study and work in a dynamic and challenging environment which would utilize myskills to the maximum and contribute to the well-being of the society

Education2006–2010 Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, Amrita Vishwa

Vidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India, CGPA: 7.58/10.2006 High School, Nagarjuna Pre University College, Dept. of Pre-University Education,

Bangalore, Karnataka, India.2004 10th Grade, Nagarjuna Vidayniketan, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

CBSE Syllabus.

Positions Held2010 October -

PresentResearch Assistant, TIFAC Core in Cyber Security, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.Responsible for coming up with innovative strategies to promote awareness of Cyber Securitywithin India by publishing newsletters, organising ethical hacking contests

2009 - 2010 Campus Ambassador Coordinator for Kerala, Sun Microsystems, India.Was selected as Campus Ambassador Coordinator for colleges in Kerala. http://blogs.sun.com/avinashjoshi

2008 - 2009 Campus Ambassador for Amrita, Sun Microsystems, India.Sun Microsystems was one of the largest supporters of Free and OpenSource software in theworld. As a part of this program, I got trained to use Sun Technologies like OpenSolaris, Javaand also conducted technical workshops in and around my campus

Research InterestsNetwork & Information Security, Networking, Formal Methods, Parallel & DistributedSystems, Data Structures, Operating Systems

Awards & Achievements2010 February - May Organized and conducted InCTF ’10, India’s first national level capture the flag style

hacking contest. More than 300 teams registerd. The prize distribution was at VeriSignoffice, Bangalore on 19th October 2010. http://ctf.amrita.ac.in

2010 April Honoured with the Award of Excellence for my contirbution and performance duringthe academic year 2009–2010 at Amrita University, Amritapuri

2009 July Conducted hands-on workshops and technical sessions on writing device drivers inLinux

2009 June Selected as Sun Campus Ambassador of the Year from India among 96 otherCA’s and was honoured to be one among the five CA’s worldwide to be sponsored bySun Microsystems to attend the JavaOne conference 2009 at San Francisco, USAhttp://bit.ly/aPbiLy

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2009 March 28, 29 Founder Member and Organizer of FOSSTER ’09, first ever National Conferenceon Free and OpenSource Technologies at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. http://foss.

amrita.ac.in

2009 March First place in “Technical Unconferencing” for blogging, AVVP2008 March Grand prize winner, Code for Freedom Contest; Invited to SunTech Days 2008 to

receive the award http://in.sun.com/communities/univ_archive/codeforfreedom/2007/

2008 - 2009 Participated in various Capture The Flag style hacking contests. In the process, Ilearned many aspects of network security and operating system. Team bi0s from ouruniversity was the only team from India to have participated in any international CTFcontests like:

August 15th 2009 HARCTF Ranked 14 out of 38 teams all over the world(https://ssl.hcesperer.org/harctf)

July 9th 2009 CIPHER 5 Ranked 22 out of 35 teams all over the world(http://cipher-ctf.org/cipher5)

August 1st 2008 CIPHER 4 Ranked 24 out of 31 teams all over the world(http://cipher-ctf.org/cipher4.results.html)

2008 Founding member of Sun Club, Amritapuri (now FOSS Club), a student club at our Uni-versity that provides a platform for discussing on various Free and OpenSource technolo-gies. The club was started as an initiative to drive the Free and OpenSouce movementin the college.

ResearchPublications

2009 December Jayaraj Poroor, Varrun Ramani, Avinash Joshi and Bharat Jayaraman, Specification andVerification of Controller Area Network Protocols using Temporal Logic, Proceedings ofNational conference on Automotive Infotronics, SAE India, Dec 17-18, 2010

Undergraduate Thesis2009 December -

2010 MayBachelor’s theisis work entitled “Formal specification and verification of embed-ded software: A case study using TLA+” at AVVP. Constructed a formal spec-ification of peripheral hardware subsystems of an industrial strength microcontrollerthat has automotive and medical applications and also proved that the formal hardwarespecification can be used for formal verification of embedded software specifications.Received ‘A’ grade.

Selected Projects2009 June Specially designed School OS for school children in collaboration with NCERT and

IIT Delhi (part of Sun Microsystems efforts to spearhead the rise of open-source in theprimary & secondary education system of India). Installed School OS in NCERT Labat New Delhi.

2009 February - April Implemented an instant messaging application to send, receive and view messages/mailbetween users registered to that application. Led a team of four where my role wasdesigning the front-end (HTML, Javascript) and a back-end. The project was aimed atincreasing our skills in internet programing.

2007 November -2008 February

As a part of Sun’s Code for Freedom Contest, I made bug fix contributions to OpenSolairscodebase (Solaris Nevada). The bugs were integrated into Solaris Nevada. In thisprocess, I gained a lot of knowledge of how files are organised in an operating systemand how to build the source code of Solaris. During this time, I also wrote a simpledocumentation on how to build the Solaris Nevada which was not available at that time.http://bugs.opensolaris.org

2007 July - August As a personal project and out of my interest towards web technologies and php, I de-veloped a web portal using WAMP (Windows Apache MYSQL PHP). This was testedon Windows and GNU/Linux platform successfully. http://avinashjoshi.co.in/avi

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Computer SkillsPlatforms GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat,

BackTrack), (Open)SolarisProgramming C, C++, Java(basic),

Python(basic), Shell ScriptWebsite

DevelopmentHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Drupal Graphics Inkscape, GIMP

Webservers Apache HTTP Server Others TLA+, XML, LATEX, GIT & SVNVCS, OpenVPN, Wireshark, Nmap

Activities2010 October 10, 31 Participated in the Amala Bharatam clean up drive, a nationwide Social Cleanliness

Project of M.A. Math2008 - 2009 Organised and delivered talks and demos on various FOSS technologies under the FOSS

Club.2006 - 2009 Active member of Mindscape club at the campus which is aimed at promoting creative

thinking among the student community

Papers & Conferences2009 September 12 Invited to inaugurate the OpenSource Meet-up club at CET, Trivandrum.2009 August 19 - 21 Attended a workshop on Cyber Security, Cyber Crime & Cyber Forensics jointly con-

ducted by Amrita University and University of Buffalo-SUNY.2009 January Attended national conference on Cyber Security and Crime Detection held at Cochin.

2008 December 9 - 11 Introduction to OpenSolaris and the Community at FSFS, Trivandrum, 2nd Interna-tional Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture - Free Software.Met a lot of developers including Richard M Stallman (Invited).

December 2007 &November 2008

Attended FOSS.IN/2007,2008, one of the world’s largest FOSS events, held annually inIndia. The event is highly focused on FOSS development and contribution.

2008 February 27 - 29 Sun Tech days. Received the Grand Prize award for CFF from Ian Murdok, founder ofDebian.

Training and Certification2009 September 01 Sun Certified Solaris Associate

2008 August Completed the RedHat Certification Course at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Interest & HobbiesLeisure Listening to Music, Blog at http://avinashjoshi.co.in.

Games Table Tennis, Badminton, Football, Carrom and Foosball.

References will be provided upon request

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