Phone 650/714-5694
badhri[AT]cs.wisc.edu
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~badhri
Badhri Varanasi
Areas of Interest
Storage Systems, Databases, Networks and Operating Systems. Also
interested in Software design and development
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S. Computer Sciences, Dec 2004
 Worked in the Wisconsin Advanced Internet Lab (WAIL) as a
Research Assistant under Prof. Paul Barford.
 Master’s Thesis: Design, Implementation and Applications of an NFS
Proxy using the Click Modular router.
 GPA: 4.0/4.0
BITS, Pilani India
B.E (Hons.) Computer Sciences, June 2003
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Experience
Courses and Projects in Databases, Networking and Security.
GPA: 9.89/10.00 (Class Rank: 4/120)
Oracle USA Inc, Redwood Shores CA (Jan 2005 – present)
Senior Member of Technical Staff
 Member of the Database partitioning development team. Part of the
SQL DSS team in the Oracle database server group.
 Experience in enterprise scale server design.
National Semiconductor, India
Co-op Engineer Jan 2003 – June 2003
 Part of a team of 3 in the CAD S/W division that designed and
developed modules for 'NatSpice'- National's in-house circuit simulator.
 Completed a module integrating two applications (one in C and the
other in C++) that helped improve running time by 15%.
HCL Infosystems, India
Summer Intern May 2001 – July 2001
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Designed and developed a problems/solutions interactive database
search system using ASP, JavaScript and MS-SQL server
Created a 'Flash' presentation on precautions to be taken in the
hardware industry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching Assistant, Aug 2003 – Dec 2003
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Consultant for CS302-Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
BITS, Pilani
Professional Assistant, Aug 2002 – Dec 2002
Skills
Academic Projects
Activities/
Leadership
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Consultant for Computers and Programming course: X86 architecture
and assembly level programming using MASM
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Operating Systems: Win98/NT/2k/XP; Linux; Unix; Solaris
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Languages: C, C++, Java, x86 assembly
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Software: SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, HTML,
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Development of a Linux based web-server for EMC Centera CAS
(Content Addressed Storage) systems.
 Comparing processor cache performance under virtual machine and
conventional workloads (team of 3)
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Implementation of Secure Electronics Transactions (SET) on Linux
using C (team of 2)
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Design and Implementation of Battleship- a network game: written in C
on Linux using socket programming (team of 2)
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BITS Integrated Database System using Visual Basic and Oracle
(team of 6)
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POSTMAN- a 2D Graphics game written in Java (team of 2)
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Implementation of Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
using C (team of 3)
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Deployment of CISCO IP/TV on BITS Campus (team of 4)
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Active core member of the BITS Pilani Alumni Association, Silicon
Valley Chapter
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Participated in several projects of Oracle volunteers as a project
leader and as a volunteer.
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Served on the Graduate Admissions Committee in the CS
department at the University of Wisconsin during Spring 2004.
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Coordinator of the Computer Sciences Department for APOGEE
2001, an All India inter-disciplinary academic meet at BITS Pilani
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II Year Representative of the Computer Science Association at BITS
during 2000-2001: edited the fortnightly magazine; organized C and
UNIX tutorial lectures every month.
Achievements
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Was awarded the BITS Merit scholarship (awarded to the top 10
students of the undergraduate batch) for 5 semesters.
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Secured II rank in the state of Pondicherry (India) in the Class X
Matriculation Examination (1997)
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Secured II rank in the state of Pondicherry (India) in the Class XII
Higher Secondary Examination (1999).