AYASKANT SAHU(AK)

Has been the technical architect/technical lead/lead programmer of many White House/OMB(Office of Management and Budget) and several GSA Projects... etc

• www.usaspending.gov
• www.recovery.gov
• www.performance.gov
• goals.performance.gov
• www.itdashboard.gov
• www.fedspace.gov
• permits.performance.gov
• www.data.gov
• www.sba.gov
• green.sba.gov
• www.acquisition.gov
• www.section508.gov
• www.pic.gov
• www.fmi.gov

As the software architect lead a team of 15 people in US and India to design a social networking portal, consisting of tools like Wikis, Blogs, Forums, Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Search Appliance. The eventual plan was to store all of the information for the bank in this portal. Was involved in the planning, designing the application and database, development of key components of the application in LAMP stack.

As a Senior Developer Mr. Sahu was involved developing two tools called Coverage Matrix( to track product development and testing efforts) and Quality Metrics(A Defect Tracking and Management Tool) for the EESOF division of Agilent. At this time Mr.Sahu was working with a team of 30 people across the globe. Mr.Sahu was involved in planning, designing, presenting new ideas to product development teams and developing prototypes for these ideas. Couple of his ideas were awarded trade secret by Agilent Technologies.

Since Agilent is Six sigma certified, all the process, development practices had to follow 6 sigma best practices. Mr. Sahu has undergone several training for six sigma processes.

As a Senior Software Developer Mr.Sahu was involved developing new features and tools for PubSub search engine. PubSub was a startup and used to be the Google of blogs, newsgroup and rss feed searches. PubSub's prospective search matches user requests against new documents as they're published - in real time. In a team of 20 people in India and USA Mr. Sahu was involved in the development of tools like blogtags, pageranks, linkranks and brandranks built around pubsub engine

Mr. Sahu was a consulting software engineer with Zustek corp and was working with Ebizmailer, which was world’s no 1 email marketing tool at that point of time. During this time he worked with many clients such as Overture, Mattel, SONY, Time Inc., Game Show Network, National Geographic, Panasonic, Thrifty and Cendant who were using Ebizmailer. Mr Sahu’s primary job was to interact with customers, collect new requirements, and develop new tools around the core product called Ebizmailer in PHP, Perl and shell script.

Founded one of the first Linux and Open Source Services/Training company in India. Zaxer helped companies migrate from Microsoft based technologies/products to Linux based solutions. Zaxer's unique solution helped clients replace existing proprietary Mail Server, File Server, Proxy Server, Chat Server with free and OpenSource solutions. Also provided Linux/Open Source Training on System Administration, PERL/CGI, TCL/TK, Python, Shell Scripting , PHP etc.

As a software developer in this startup of 15 people was involved in designing and creating products like Netpod and CarbonCloud. Netpod was an all in one server solutions for small and midsized companies. CarbonCloud was a backup solution which would automatically track and sync any file changes in your system to a remote cloud server. Was a lead developer on these projects and was instrumental in contributing to planning, designing, proposing new feature solutions, giving product demo to client along with marketing team, architecting and developing new features using php, perl, python and shell script.

• Netpod
• Ndrive
• CarbonCloud backup solution

Worked on many websites like kaizen.com, cgroups.org, mahalife.com, biblesindia.com, professionals.us.com, linuxpertise.com and ccac.networkninja.com. He was responsible for developing many different components of these websites in PHP and PERL.

Worked in Satyam’s Language Technology Research Center, which was developing India’s first language translation software from any Indian language to any Indian language. He was responsible for an Oriya Language word generator and a multi lingual accounting software. He used Perl, Tcl/Tk and Shell script to develop the products.