User:Gopi Ramena

I would love to change the world but they wont give me the source code...
I am a jovial, sporty and mostly fun-loving person who likes to explore the various flavours of life. Currently I am a third year Electrical Engineering student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I am a web/software developer (PS: not designer) & love to explore the new advancements of technologies. I like goofing around with computers and new technologies on the web.


 * Developed Gymkhana Calendar, a web app for managing all the events under the Gymkhana as a Course Project
 * - An application to efficiently manage and schedule the numerous events organized by the Students’ Gymkhana.
 * - The application has various levels of hierarchy with various permissions to a user in a specific hierarchy like adding events, approving or rejecting events, adding other users
 * - Designed an efficient database for the application in normal form optimizing it such that queries and data retrieval take minimum amount of time


 * Developed a Student Search of all the students in IIT Kanpur, with an SMS application, a very widely used app in the campus (around 500 visits per day and a total of around 6 lakhs page views till date, in two years)


 * Head Web in Techkriti 2013
 * - Developed the website & various apps/scripts for the festival. Also managed the complete server of techkriti.
 * - Revamped the registration process and accommodation allocation process, automating the entire system and minimizing paperwork


 * Summer Internship as Software Developer at Educational Initiatives, Ahmedabad
 * - Developed educational games in html5 compatible with all browsers, I-pads & androids
 * - Created various JavaScript libraries some of which are widely used by them in many of their games
 * - Received appreciation from the IT & the content management team for my work

- Awarded offer for another internship and a Pre Placement Offer by the company


 * Developed SmallTalk, an application developed in Yahoo! HackU 2012 organized by Yahoo India
 * - Developed the app in 24 hours which gives complete info about a user’s Facebook friends
 * - The app used Yahoo BOSS api to get the latest news about the user’s and his friends’ most liked items in the Facebook graph
 * - Used IMDB movie list to determine the genre of the movie liked by a particular friend and suggest similar movies of the same genre not watched by the user
 * - The app displayed the favorite sport of a particular friend by analyzing his sports’ likes in the Facebook graph and also generated the sport description from Wikipedia and latest news about that sport using Yahoo BOSS api


 * Part of campus startup Bluegape as part time web developer cum designer
 * - Designed and developed a customization tool used for customizing t-shirts, posters & mugs online which increased the traffic on the site and the revenues
 * - Assisted the technical team of the startup in their early stages in various technical aspects


 * Developed an online 3D Rubik’s Cube application in Yahoo! HackU 2011 organized by Yahoo India
 * - The app consisted of an online Rubik’s Cube which could be viewed in 3D and solved as a normal cube
 * - It also consisted of an inbuilt timer and an integrated chat system where all the logged in users could discuss among themselves and their solve times


 * Online Multiplayer Game as Summer Project under Programming Club, IIT Kanpur
 * - Built a multiplayer car racing game from scratch in C
 * - Applied the concept of Socket Programming to build the networking part of the game
 * - Used OpenGL to design the game and make a 3D map for the game


 * Academic mentor for the course ESC101 (Introduction to C language course) for first year students in IIT Kanpur.

Contact me at gopi@iitk.ac.in or gopiramena@gmail.com

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