Rahul Malik
Pursuing Computer Science degree from University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | C/C++, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Python, Software Engineering, Web Development |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Speakli (http://speakli.com/) |
| Position: | Project |
| Description: | - Developed a site to produce niche microblogging services in under 24 hours.
- Yahoo University Hackday Overall Winner (2nd place) Fall 2008. - Best Mobile Hack Award and use of Yahoo Blueprint. |
| Employer: | fusion.im |
| Position: | Project |
| Description: | - Developed application to provide instant messaging capabilities to any site that has a social graph.
- Architected the application such that new networks could be added with ease and that we could facilitate cross network communication via Jabber/XMPP. |
| Employer: | MyMapr (internal to Yahoo! Inc.) |
| Position: | Project |
| Description: | - Wrote client-side Javascript to interface with Yahoo! Pipes, Yahoo! Maps AJAX API, Flickr API, Upcoming API, and Yahoo! Local API.
- Finalist at the LMC Yahoo Internal Hackday competition, Summer 2007 |
| Employer: | YApplets (internal to Yahoo! Inc.) |
| Position: | Project |
| Description: | - Reverse engineered Google Mapplets
- Created a prototype using Yahoo! Pipes as a data source to compete with Google Mapplets. - Prototyped a simple specification to demonstrate the concept for LMC Hackday |
| Employer: | Socolio.com - Champaign, IL |
| Position: | Entrepreneur/President/Lead Developer |
| Time period: | January 2008 - September 2008 |
| Description: | - Designed a productivity tool to handle the overload of social network notifications in your inbox.
- Lead 5 employees to deploy an alpha level product in under 6 weeks. - Trained employees to use Python, Django Framework, and the MVC design pattern. - Networked with other entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, lawyers and accountants. - Prioritized features and managed the development progress towards our alpha release. - Designed deployment process using Apache, PostgreSQL and Gentoo Linux. |
| Employer: | Yahoo! Maps |
| Position: | Software Developer Intern |
| Time period: | May 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | • Designed a social mapping platform that allowed users to embed, share, and create custom maps.
• Researched and prototyped a procedure for overlaying custom data sets from Yahoo! Pipes onto Yahoo! Maps to compete with Google’s Mapplets. • Researched the capability of utilizing elevation data sets to create a three dimensional map display option. • Prototyped a “mashup builder” that extends the social mapping platform by incorporating code generation. • Produced over 20 code usage examples and documented the Yahoo Maps AJAX API v3.7. |
| Employer: | Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity – Alpha Alpha Chapter |
| Position: | Vice President |
| Time period: | September 2006 - November 2006 |
| Description: | • Administered over 12 chairman positions and coordinated all internal fraternity activities
• Directed efforts toward meeting charter requirements • Designed the Enlightened Leaders Academy, a leadership-training program that has been implemented nationwide starting Fall 2008 to over 100 universities. • Designed and Implemented a new academic plan that raised chapter GPA from 31st to 10th among all fraternities and exceeded the “All Men’s Campus Average GPA. |
| Employer: | Riverglass Inc |
| Position: | System Administrator Intern |
| Time period: | November 2005 - April 2007 |
| Description: | • Assisted in providing Apache, CVS, Mail, Calendaring, Bug Tracking, and Mailing Lists services to over
40 employees using Windows XP, Mac OSX, or Linux. • Automated rapid rebuilds and configurations of all our Linux (Fedora Core 5) test servers. • Designed a Ruby on Rails application to track all company physical inventory purchases and owners. |
| Employer: | Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity – Alpha Alpha Chapter |
| Position: | Recruitment Director |
| Time period: | March 2005 - May 2006 |
| Description: | • Coordinated 28 men to execute an 8 week rush period.
• Increased membership by 71% to 48 members • Designed a Recruitment Plan in order to ensure success in recruitment in the future. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign |
| Time period: | 2008 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
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Slide
New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
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TickerGram
TickerGram is a breakthrough persistent search application that parses the blogosphere and various media sources for corporate news and determines the sentiment toward each company mentioned in incoming articles.
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Lydia Muwanga
Ugandan-American, 23, primary interest is in innovation, merging art and technology. Worked at a product design firm in Silicon Valley and studied art in Florence, Italy. Interested in building an internet application to increase exposure and...
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Steve Teffenhardt
American, 40. CEO Pure Moxie, LLC, biz incubator born in 2002. Also PM Jets, LLC Business Aircraft Charter Broker. Goals #1 Create the best possible team, #2 Motivate, #3 Delegate. Leader and Motivator, and a Jet Pilot in a previous lifestyle...
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Kirill Makharinsky
Entrepreneur and numbers guy. Co-founder of YouNoodle; previously studied metrics at Slide and mathematics at Oxford.
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