Jignesh Kakadiya has experience in software development and open source contributions. He completed his B.Tech in Information and Communication Technology from DA-IICT in 2013. His experience includes internships creating backend software for a music application using C, contributing over 26 patches to Mozilla using C++ and JavaScript, and porting KDE frameworks from Qt4 to Qt5 using C++. He is proficient in languages like C, C++, Python, Java and technologies including Linux, Qt, jQuery, and version control systems.

1. Jignesh Kakadiya
+91-7794902826 | jigneshhk1992@gmail.com
401, Shree Laxmi Heavens, Madhapur, Hyderabad - 400081
Education
Undergraduate - CGPA 7.09/10 2013
B. Tech. Information and Communication Technology from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India.
Class 12 – 83.40% 2009
Class 10 – 85.40% 2007
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Surat.
Experience
Grit Innovation Software Pvt. Ltd. [Internship] Jan 2013- Present
Created Backend (FTP, discovery, libsync) for Music Application to have proper audio
playback synchronization between different iOS mobile devices.
Language: C
Mozilla Corporation - Contributor Dec 2011- July 2012
I have written more than 26 Patches and tests for Core Accessible APIs and Gecko layout
engine. My codes are now part of Mozilla core platform.
Languages: C++, JavaScript
Patches: https://github.com/neonux/mozilla-all/commits/mozilla-central?author=jigneshhk
Season Of KDE 2012 (K Desktop Environment) May 2012 - July 2012
I helped to port KDE Frameworks from qt4 to qt5, also contributed patches to applications
like calligrawords to set up page layout tool and KSnapshot.
Languages: C++/Qt
Patches: http://goo.gl/OoCjT
Calligrawords (submitted patch): http://goo.gl/Sgcg
MILLEE [Internship] May - Sept 2011
Mentor: Prof. Matthew Kam (CMU)
MILLEE creates educational games to teach English to underprivileged children. I was maintainer
for three JAVA/ME based games. Fixed more than 30 existing bugs and Written DOM scripts
and library modules for esthetic scoring displays.
Languages: Java

2. CLIR [Internship] May - Aug 2012
Experimenting with terrier search engine to improve the precision of multilingual translation
for Indian languages. Performed translation, transliteration and dictionary based CLIR (cross
language information retrieval) methods.
Languages: Python, Java
Self-Projects
NewsPro Jan - Apr 2012
News Reader Application for Android devices which lets user simultaneously read news from
various news-sources and gives user ability to share them to nine different social
networking websites.
Language: JavaScript
Chit-Chat Sept - Dec 2010
Developed a messenger clone in C. Threading was the crucial part to handle multiple clients.
Features: Multicast, Send message to nick, list already existing clients.
Language: C
Skills
Programming Languages
 Proficient in C, C++, Python.
 Significant experience with Java, Bash Shell Scripting, Assembly (LC3, 6502,
8085), JavaScript.
Specific technologies
 Client side - AJAX, Canvas, jQuery.
 Platforms – Linux(3+ years), KDE, Qt, J2ME, Pygame, Node.js.
Tools
 Programming – Vim, Qt Creator, Eclipse
 Version control - Git, Mercurial, Svn.
 Build tools - CMake, GNU Make, qmake.
 Debugging - gdb.
Activities and Achievements
 Teaching Assistant for Computer Organization course at DA-IICT.
 Mentioned in Mozilla credits list (http://www.mozilla.org/credits/)

3.  Awarded Dakshana Scholarship (www.dakshana.org) (Jun,07- May,09)
 Awarded JNV Scholarship (www.navodaya.nic.in) (Jun,05- May,09)
 Vice-Captain of the DA-IICT volley team.
Other interests
Volley ball, Drawing, Music, Reading tech blogs.
Github: https://github.com/jigneshhk
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Last updated May 10, 2013