Srayan Guhathakurta is a graduate student in telecommunications engineering at UT Dallas with over 4 years of experience as a software engineer. He is currently interning at Microsoft working on Xpert, a tool for monitoring performance metrics in data centers. Previously, he worked at Mahindra Satyam on projects for clients like KPN Telecom and SAAB involving network configuration, capacity management, and application development. He is also working on projects involving a load balancer using SDN, managing smart home appliances via SNMP, and a battery-saving GPS application.

1. SRAYAN GUHATHAKURTA
469.888.1792 | srayan.guhathakurta@utdallas.edu | I code here | Website | LinkedIn
PROFILE
Graduate student in Telecommunications Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas. 4 years of experience as a software engineer in
telecommunications and embedded systems. Interning at Microsoft, working on Xpert, a Data Center performance management software.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering 2015 (expected)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Coursework: Advanced Computer Networks, Network Security, Software Defined Networks, Database Design, Probability and Statistics,
Telecommunication Software Design and Network Management, Operating systems, Object Oriented Analysis and design.
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering 2009
West Bengal University of Technology, India.
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
OPERATING SYSTEMS SERVICE ENGINEERING INTERN, MICROSOFT CORPORATION, REDMOND, WA.
Design and development of a visualization tool to help engineers monitor CPU and Network performance metrics June 2015–Currently
of Data centers deployed globally on daily cadence. My model allows easy addition/removal of new Data Center
sources. Performance counter data is fetched from Azure and visualized as a line charts/histograms and aid trouble-shooting.
Design and development of a tool to help engineers visually review the scoring of Wi-Fi networks in a heat-map, Sep–Nov 2014
by mining data from Cosmos (Microsoft-Big Data). This will enable users to accurately monitor live-sites. Having
completed my first project with the Wi-Fi Sense team ahead of time, I worked on a second project on setting up
the infrastructure for testing Data-Marts (Windows 10)
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, MAHINDRA SATYAM, BANGALORE, INDIA | MAY’10-JULY’13
Client- KPN Telecom, The Netherlands Jan 2011–July 2013
System integration and end-to-end testing and validation of Network Configuration and Capacity Management
(OSS and BSS Provisioning) in KPN Telecom architecture, resulting in 105% system performance improvement.
Author of BAAN ERP handbook for use by analysts and engineers.
Tools / Software used: BaaN ERP, MQJ Queue manager (IBM), Net Cap, Net Task (TTI Telecom), Net Order, OIM.
Client- SAAB, Sweden Dec 2010–Jan 2011
Application design on Battle Management System platform
Also represented Mahindra Satyam at Aero India Air Expo, Bangalore 2011.
Client- Mahindra Satyam Embedded Design Engineer, India May–Nov 2010
Application development of a multimedia player using Embedded C programming
Automation of OS (Android) porting onto Texas Instruments OMAP2430 using scripting resulting in 70% rise in performance.
Audio device driver development team for onboard chip TWL4030 using GStreamer framework.
CURRENT PROJECTS
 Smartphone application to help save battery power when using GPS intensive applications
Development of an application to control the polling frequency of the smartphone with the GPS satellites,
based on the movement velocity of the user. Won the Mastery of Computer Science award at Rice University Jan’14.
 Designing a Load balancer using a Software Defined Network (SDN) solution-OpenDaylight controller.
With a centralized software based controller approach this will help organizations reduce OpEx by trading expensive
custom hardware for economic software solutions running on a standard computer cluster.
 Using SNMP to manage smart home based appliances (IoT). Data from these networked devices is fetched and displayed on a webpage.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software language: C#, SQL, Microsoft Big Data-Cosmos:SCOPE, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PhP, Bash scripting, Python.
Operating Systems and environments: Linux, Macintosh, Windows, MySQL, Vim, GCC, Telecom OSS architecture, ERP, SNMP, SDN.
AWARDS
Spirit of Innovation Award by Texas Instruments and US India Chamber of Commerce, Dallas'14. Mastery of Computer Science award at Rice University
Hackathon 2014. Scholarship from ParisTech, France. Bravo awards from KPN Telecom, SAAB for completing time critical projects.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
News writer at UT Dallas and previously at Mahindra Satyam. Embedded device hacker, avid reader and guitar player.