Swarali Surana



IBM Netezza on Cloud (August 2020 - Present)
• Project: cloud native deployment for Netezza Performance Server (NPS) database engine.

• Responsibilities: Feature development for no downtime scaling of storage, writing interfaces for communication between NPS and influxDB, writing REST handlers for dashboard monitoring

• Technology: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, golang, REST, InfluxDB

• Recognition: recipient of one “High Five” individual award

IBM Netezza (September 2018 - July 2020)
• Project: Design and deploy high-performance data warehousing appliances and advanced analytics applications in enterprises for uses including Business Intelligence and Predictive Analysis

• Responsibilities: carry out root cause analysis and provide fixes for resolving customer escalations, perform feature enhancements, add new features to the IBM Netezza product

• Technology: C, C++, Bash scripting, Perl Scripting, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3

• Recognition: recipient of two “High Five” individual awards



Blockchain based service engine for Tangible Asset Management     (September 2017 - March 2018)

• Goal: to design, develop and demonstrate a service-engine using blockchain technology for Land Property Management. This was final year project sponsored by Persistent Systems Ltd.

• Salient features: (a) registering, selling, buying, mortgaging a property
         (b) maintaining a chain of custody
         (c) property auctions
         all implemented through Smart Contracts

• Technology: Ethereum, Solidity, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js and Web3 API

• Publication: Blockchain based Service Engine for Tangible Asset Management. In the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication, Mechanical and Computing, India, 28-29 January 2018, pp. 232-237.

• Accolades: The Best Project Award in two inter-collegiate National level symposia

• Code : Blockchain Land Property Management

Video Stabilization for UAVs in Real-time (February 2017 - March 2017)
• Goal: to stabilize the jittery video captured by UAVs in real time. This was a project offered by India’s Ministry of Defence as part of first Smart India Hackathon (that was World’s biggest ever hackathon)

• Technology: C++, OpenCV, CUDA, Qt Creator

• Accolades: Awarded the First Runners-Up prize among about sixty selected competing entries

• Code : Video Stabilization Server for UAVs