Shashwat Vidhu Sher is seeking a job as a software developer or quality engineer. He has 4 years of experience working for SAP Labs as both a software developer and quality engineer. He is currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science from the University of Arizona with a GPA of 3.87 and is expected to graduate in May 2016. He has extensive experience with programming languages like ABAP, C, C++, and Java and tools like SAP BO, SAP HANA, Tableau, and Qlik. He has worked on projects involving business analytics, algorithm development, quality assurance, and database implementation.

1. Shashwat Vidhu Sher
1333 North Tyndall Avenue, 206
Tucson, Arizona
vidhusher@gmail.com
520-328-5230
 Worked both as a software developer and quality engineer for 4 years with SAP Labs. Have 360 overview of SDLC.
 Experienced in Business Analytics and Intelligence. Have worked on SAP BO and SAP HANA (In-Memory Relational Database)
 Have worked on algorithm intensive projects requiring implementation of multithreading in C and C++ (Linux platform)
 Highly experienced in Quality Assurance and various product standards. Experienced in Test-Driven Development, Waterfall
model, Agile etc.
 B.E from Bangalore University with 3.87 CGPA. Currently pursuing MS in computer science from University of Arizona with
current GPA of 3.87. Graduation in May 2016.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Developer (08/2010-06/2014), SAP Labs, India
Projects Undertaken – HCM Manager Self-Service, HCM E-Recruiting, HANA Legacy Report Implementation
 Developed applications on Web-Dynpro ABAP for the highly successful product of Manager Self-Service: Add-On (MSS) and
SAP E-Recruiting.
 Experience in working with HANA systems. Have worked on legacy reports optimization project which resulted in reducing the
running time of legacy reports given to my team by a factor of 300X.
 Worked on MSS Analytics which involved utilizing data mining techniques (SAP Business Warehouse) and Business Intelligence
(BI). The extracted data is then represented using analytical reports.
 Worked on HCM Enterprise search by integrating different databases for employees, position, learning, organization etc. into a
common framework.
Quality Engineer (02/2013 – 06/2014), SAP Labs, India
Projects Undertaken – HCM Process & Forms, HCM E-Recruiting, SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer & Suite Page Builder
 Successfully delivered renewal cycle of HCM Process & Forms and SAP E-recruiting which deals with various forms and
recruitment process in industries like IT, manufacturing, banking etc.
 Have been instrumental in delivering SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer which is touted as the next revolution in the domain of
usability for business software.
 Experienced in direct customer interaction and support for customer integration tests, solution acceptance tests and pilot releases.
Also in depth knowledge in creating test data, test cases and test plans.
Business Development Intern (06/2015 – 08/2015), Prysm Inc; U.S.A.
 Developing executive dashboards for different business verticals.
 Learned and developed Tableau, Qlikview and Microstrategy dashboards. Also worked on other social media dashboards like
Linkies and JanRain
Teaching Assistant (08/2015 - ), Computer Science Department, University of Arizona
 Teaching Assistant in the subject of Algorithms and Computer Security.
 Responsibilities involve assistance in course development, examinations and grading
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Title: Building Watson (10/2015 – 12/2015)
Place: University of Arizona, Language: JAVA
 Building an Information retrieval system which can mimic the abilities of a QA system like IBM Watson on a small scale.
 Worked on standard and advanced IR techniques like Mean Reciprocal Rank, Top K retrieval and lemmatization.
 Worked extensively on Lucene and Stanford NLP libraries.
Title: The Minibase Project (02/2016 – )
Place: University of Arizona, Language: C++
 Creating a mini database from scratch
 Understanding and implementing different database components like buffer manager, heapfile, data-page, B+ tree etc.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS

2. Title: Router Implementation (09/2014 – 12/2014)
Place: University of Arizona, Language: C, C++
 Implemented a software router that can handle real time traffic and route packets to correct servers.
 Simple router functionality as well as OSPF protocol between a group of routers implemented. Worked extensively on TCP/IP
Protocol Suite for the project.
Title: Implementing Cryptography (10/2015 – 11/2015)
Place: University of Arizona, Language: JAVA
 Implemented Asymmetric (RSA) as well as Symmetric (DES) key cryptography
 Worked on techniques like Fiestal Network, Key expansion, Substitution and Permutation Boxes, Using Euler’s theorem etc.
Title: Defect tracking in solar telescopes (10/2009 – 08/2010)
Place: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, Language: C, C++
 Worked on improving solar images using linear predictive coding (LPC) involving the cancellation of drift in the solar images.
 My part involved programming the DSP kit and using linear predictive coding techniques which then could predict the incoming
signal with 99.99% accuracy.
 The output from the program is utilized for corrective measures to cancel the drift.
Title: Accurate Distance Measurement through smartphone (01/2015 – 05/2015)
Place: University of Arizona, Language: JAVA
 Android app to accurately track distance walked by patients indoors by only using a smartphone.
 Developed an algorithm for accurate distance tracking through raw acceleration data and step heuristic.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Programming Languages: Advanced - ABAP, Web-Dynpro ABAP, HANA SQL, C, C++, JAVA,
Beginner - VHDL, HTML5, MATLAB
 Hardware Knowledge: Microprocessor 8085, 8086, Microcontroller 8051
 Other Tools: Tableau, Qlik, Microstratey, OpenGL, SAP Portal, SUPA, JAWS, HTTP BasicWatch, Eclipse,
Visual Studio, MATLAB, Model-Sim, CADD, Selenium, J-Unit, JIRA
 Courses: Scrum/Agile Software Techniques, certified in software testing and embedded systems, certificate
course in Information Security in public and private domain
SOFT SKILLS
 Excellent project management and planning skills
 Agile development methodologies
 Excellent inter-personnel skills
 Ability to lead from front
 Research Oriented Nature
EXTRA CURRICULARS
 Active involvement in CSR activities (2010- 2014)
 Organized school, college and corporate cultural fests (2002-2012)
 Directed short movies and street plays for social awareness (2002-2012)
 Organized college wide soccer tournament in 2007
 Conducted database management training for new recruits in SAP Labs in 2012
 Represented school, college and corporate in soccer tournaments
 Won several awards in drama, singing, quizzes at school and college level
AWARDS & ACHEIVEMENTS
 Scholarship award from University of Arizona Computer Science department for Spring 2015 session.
 Won the SAP Labs India HANA (In-Memory) coding challenge for improving performance of legacy business reports in 2012.
 Awarded the D.A.V Meritorious Student award for securing more than 90% in class 10th
C.B.S.E. Examination in 2004.
 Awarded ‘Certificate of Excellence’ by All India Talent Search (AITS) at junior and sub-junior levels