VAIBHAV SHARMA
1200 E 356 S APT#1, SLC, Utah 84102
# 801-554-6976
vaibhav.sharma@utah.edu
PROFILE/OBJECTIVE
Motivated individual, with 3 year industry experience, seeking internship opportunity for an experience of a lifetime.
WORK EXPERIENCE
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
August 2010 – Present
“Research Assistant” in FLUX
 Working with Prof. Robert Ricci in Systems area.
 Modifying current infrastructure of EMULAB to use WIM format images for Operating System installation.
Microsoft India Development center, Hyderabad
“Software Development Engineer in Test” in Windows Serviceability
June 2007 – July 2010
Job involved responsibility of maintaining and improving design, architecture and quality of CryptoAPI, CNG,
Protected Storage/Data Protection API, Credential Roaming, Certificate Server, Certificate UI and other PKI
components for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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Shipped following Hotfix for enterprise customers : KB938759, KB956333, KB958058, KB959160, KB959658,
KB961515, KB968730, KB971229, KB973502, KB974971, KB982416 & KB2095711.
Shipped following security updates pushed through Windows Update: KB955417, KB974571 and KB978601.
Worked on about 100 issues reported by enterprise customers in DPAPI\PKI\Cryptography area.
Automated test suit of security components to improve code coverage and also wrote tools to automate hard to
automate task like hibernation.
Vendor Management: Maintaining the complex system of releasing hotfix requires non-trivial effort in test
execution and reporting, which is accomplished through a dedicated pool of vendors. I provided management and
technical guidance to the vendor team.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Languages: C, C++, C # and Python
Platforms: Windows and Linux
Area of Interest: Cryptography, Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating System
EDUCATION
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Masters in Computer Science, fall 2010
National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering 2007
CPI: 7.50 (on scale of 10)
College and Internship Projects
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File Management System For LINUX Platform: Final year project written in C language for compression &
encryption of data, under the guidance of Prof. Krishna Kant.
Encrypt-Me-Fast: implemented a utility to increase the speed of encryption & decryption of certain formats of
multimedia data like JPEG and AVI by encrypting only the metadata, which effectively renders the data useless.
Search Tool: Implemented a cached based search utility for the data servers of Hindustan Aeronautical Limited.
PERSONAL ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS
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Currently Serving as Engineering Ambassador of College of Engineering, University of Utah.
Won the 1st prize in Programming Contest and Hacking Contest and 2nd prize in pre-defined Software
Contest in the Avishkar Technical festival at NIT Allahabad. Represented NIT Allahabad in several online
programming events at IT, BHU, IIIT, Allahabad and IIT Delhi.
Member of NIT Allahabad`s C Programming Team and Computer Science Club.
Participated in dance events and helped in organizing them. Also organized literary Events. Won prizes in
Choreography and Hindi play in college`s Cultural festival.
Taught students for more than three months under “Teach India” campaign initiated by Times of India.
Won “Best overall performance” award for my project in Microsoft’s Employee Orientation Program.
Hobbies include reading, travelling, running and photography.