Deepak Sarda
69A West Coast Drive
Singapore 127989
+65-97684893,
Employment and Professional Activities
Jan 2007 – present Hiperware Singapore
R&D Engineer, Product Specialist

Hiperware is focussed on creating tools and solutions that empower developers and enable them to create complex, high-performance and scalable applications.

Responsibilities include:
  • Managing the core product development.

  • Conducting pre-sales, customer training and support.

July 2005 – Dec 2006 Borland Pte Ltd. Singapore
R&D Engineer

Borland VisiBroker is the most widely deployed CORBA ORB server for developing robust distributed computing applications. It offers rich application services including sophisticated thread and connection management, enterprise-strength naming services and clustering.

  • Member of the Borland VisiBroker for C++ core development team.

  • Participated in the VisiBroker 7.0 release:

    • Implemented the Realtime CORBA specification which brings granular control of multithreading behaviour for real-time response requirements.

    • Responsible for performance testing, investigating performance regressions and fixing them.

    • Fixed various other bugs and regressions during the release cycle.

  • Responsible for transitioning development and support for the VisiBroker-RT product from US to Singapore.

  • Setup a realtime systems development lab in Singapore for testing on VxWorks and Montavista platforms.

  • Also involved in handling customer support escalations, fixing bugs and delivering patches.

Sep 2004 – June 2005 Bioinformatics Institute Singapore
Research Associate
  • Member of the Information Science Research group.

  • Designed a new machine learning based algorithm for the computational prediction of subcellular localization of proteins.

  • Implemented a cluster-backed parallel implementation of the above algorithm, along with a web based query interface.

  • Presented a research poster at The Third Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, 2005.

Jan 2004 – June 2004 Bioinformatics Institute Singapore
Intern
  • Developed and implemented efficient strategies for scheduling computing tasks in a parallel cellular life cycle simulation software.

Education
2003 – 2004 M.S., Singapore-MIT Alliance Singapore
High Performance Computing for Engineered Systems
1999 – 2003 B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Aerospace Engineering
Publications
2005

pSLIP: SVM based protein subcellular localization prediction using multiple physicochemical properties

BMC Bioinformatics, 2005.

2004

Parallel Computing Platform for the Agent-Based Modeling of Multicellular Biological Systems

5th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications and Technologies, 2004.

Skills

C++, Java, JavaScript, Python

Linux, Solaris, Windows

Personal

26, Male.

Indian citizen. Singapore Permanent Resident.