G.D. Ramkumar
3322, Waverley St
Palo Alto, CA 94306
gramkumar@stanfordalumni.org
Mobile: (650) xxx
STRENGTHS
 Serial Entrepreneur 
 Over 12 years of software research and development experience.
 Entrepreneurial experience building successful startup Sanera Systems acquired by McDATA Corporation in
2003; played dual roles of Software Architect and Engineering Manager.
 Deep technical expertise in Computer Algorithms, Data Mining ranging from academic research to industrial
applications.
 Expertise working with Internet consumer startups developing Internet applications and technologies.
 Expertise on Data Center Infrastructure Technologies, Storage Networking, Storage Management and Network
Management.
 Experience building a Software team, and leading a Software project from concept, inception through to
product delivery.
 Expertise in implementing Software development processes targeted to deliver production quality Software
with effective use of development process, code reviews and regressions.
 Experience inventing patentable technologies, writing research papers, and co-authoring technical standards in
the Networking industry.
EDUCATION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Stanford, CA
Ph.D., Computer Science
Research Dissertation in Design of Geometric Algorithms, and Applications in Robotics and Data Mining
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
B.S., Computer Science, President’s Gold Medal
1996
Madras, India
1990
WORK EXPERIENCE
SnapTell, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA
Co-Founder and CTO
2006 – Present
 Co-founded SnapTell, image based mobile search company that builds a system to automatically recognize and
drive search using text embedded in images
McDATA Corp.
Santa Clara, CA
Sr. Software Architect
2003 – Present
 Joined McDATA as a result of acquisition of Sanera Systems in 2003
 Lead Application Software Architect for all McDATA products reporting directly to Chief Technology Officer;
McDATA (700M annual revenues) products include SAN Directors, Switches and Extension products
 Developed Architecture and technical roadmap for McDATA Software leading to 2007-2008 and beyond
 Provide Technical Direction to a team of over 100 software engineers in 3 design centers in U.S. and India
 Lead technical due diligence and evaluation of new technologies in the areas of SAN Switching and Extension
software 
 Participate in authoring ANSI standards in the areas of SNMP and CIM/SMI-S
 Develop McDATA API Strategy for interfacing with 3rd party Software Companies and Products by selectively
making available SNMP and SMI-S interfaces on McDATA software and device platforms
Sanera Systems
Software Architect and Senior Engineering Manager
 Early employee and leader of software team at startup developing SAN Director
Sunnyvale, CA
2000 – 2003
 Played dual roles of Software Architect and Engineering Manager
 As software architect, led software architecture and design from inception to delivery; early lead developer of
application and management software, external APIs, embedded management software, and software platform
 As engineering manager, hired and built a team of world class developers that delivered product on schedule
 Engineered and oversaw a high quality disciplined software development process that included design reviews,
code reviews, gatekeepers, controlled checkins, and automatic regressions to ensure quality in software and
firmware deliverables
Independent Software Consultant
Feb 2000 – Dec 2000
 Provided development skills and expertise in software architecture to three Internet startups: Chingari Inc., Blue
Wireless Inc., and Zendoo Inc.
 Developed interactive voice response (IVR) applications for use with wireless phones. 
 Developed tools to find targeted Internet communities.
 Led the architecture of a scalable web based client server application.
MORGAN STANLEY, INC
New York, NY
Senior Associate
1998 – 2000
 Data mining expert in the Information Technology Department. 
 Delivered data mining solutions as technical lead in several projects including a) modeling of consumer credit
risk, b) web-usage analysis and customer profiling, and c) analysis of fund performance relative to S&P 500.
 Managed teams of 4-6 people as technical lead.
HITACHI AMERICA LTD
Senior Researcher, Information Technology Labs
 Conducted research in Data Mining and investigated applications to medical data.
 Filed 3 patents and published in international conferences.
 Promoted to Senior Researcher within 18 months of employment.
Santa Clara, CA
1996 – 1998
DEC SYSTEMS RESEARCH CENTRE
Palo Alto, CA
Software Consultant
Summer 1992, 1993
 Animation of computer algorithms and visualization using the Zeus system, Summer, 1992 and 1993.
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Summer Intern
 Developer in Pyramid group for development of a cross-platform version of Microsoft Word.
Redmond, WA
Summer 1991
AWARDS
 President of India gold medal, awarded to the top ranking student of graduating class, IIT, Madras.
 Ranked among top 10 students in the nation wide entrance examination to IITs, India.
 Co-winner of the best paper award, ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference.
1990
1986
1995
SELECTED PATENTS
Over 7 Patents Approved or Pending
 "Method and apparatus for dynamically counting large itemsets", with Sergey Brin and Shalom Tsur,
Application no. 08/853,757, filed with US patent office, May, 1997.
 "Method and apparatus for classification of high dimensional data", with Anurag Srivastava, Vineet Singh, and
Sanjay Ranka, Application no. 09/420252, filed with US patent office, June 1997. 
 "Weighted association rules: method and apparatus", with Sanjay Ranka and Shalom Tsur, filed with US patent
office, January, 1998.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Over 15 Publications in International Journals and Conferences
 "Clustering data without distance functions", with Arun Swami, in the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol.
21, No 1, March 1998.
 "Sweeping lines and line segments with a heap", with J. Basch, L.J. Guibas, Proc. of the 13th ACM Symposium
on Computational Geometry, June 1997.
 "An algorithm to compute the Minkowski sum outer-face of two simple polygons", G.D. Ramkumar, Proc. of
the 12th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, May 1996.
 "On approximating the longest path in a graph," with D. Karger and R. Motwani, Algorithmica, special issue on
Approximation Algorithms, 18, pp. 82-98, 1997.
 "An efficient system for geometric assembly sequence generation and evaluation", with B. Romney, C. Godard,
and M. Goldwasser, Proc. ASME International Computers in Engineering, pp. 699-712, 1995.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 Taught a televised introductory course on Analysis of Algorithms at Stanford, Summer 1995.
 Taught a senior level course on Database Systems, Summer 1994.
INDUSTRY STANDARDS
 Co-author of Virtual Fabrics SNMP MIB, ANSI T11, “draft-kipp-fc-virtual-fabrics-mib-00.txt”
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE DETAILS
 In depth expertise in forward looking technology areas of Storage, SAN, Databases, and Data Mining.
 Over 14 years of experience building and leading software projects using Java, C, Perl, and SQL in Unix and
Windows environments.
 Over 9 years of in-depth experience in data center application and management software technologies including
XML, CIM, SOAP, SMI-S, and SNMP.
Over 9 years of experience in software development using Java, Perl/CGI, PHP, and authoring using WML,
HTML, Javascript, Voice XML, and XML, and server environments of Weblogic, Apache, and IIS
 Over 9 years of experience in scalable database development using Oracle, Sybase, Informix and SQL Server.