Subrata K. Sircar
Born: 9/6/67, New Orleans, LA
| Work Address | | Home Address |
|---|
| Apple Computer, Inc. | | 732 Harvard Avenue |
| De Anza Six, MS 37-2DA | | Sunnyvale, CA 94087-1205 |
| Cupertino, CA 95014 | | (408) 738-3543 |
| prophet@apple.com | | prophet@mac.com |
Objective
Seeking web development opportunities in the Bay Area.
Education
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey MAE Dept. 1989-1991
Master of Science and Engineering, September 1993
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Science, Avionics, June 1989
"Design and Construction of an Air Bearing for Wind Tunnel Support"
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, June 1989
"Design and Implementation of an X Windows Toolkit Paradigm
for the Lecture Authoring System"
Computer Skills
Extensive software development experience with C, Objective-C, XML,
HTML, and a variety of UNIX environments. Expertise with Java (Sun
Certified Java Programmer) and Mac OS (9, X, X Server) user
environments. Familiar with MS-DOS and Windows (98/NT/2000) user
environments.
Comprehensive client-server experience, along with tremendous practical
experience in system architecture, design, integration, and deployment.
Experience
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California
Senior Software Engineer, February 1998 - present
Architected, designed, implemented, debugged, tested and documented
over twenty applications, including many parts of .Mac, the
AppleStore, MacBuddy/Setup Assistant, DirectoryServices, USB Driver
Update, Software Update, Viper, CampApple, iMac Sweepstakes,
SSLSocket and more.
Heavily involved in systems operation, deployment and maintenance for
many of those same applications.
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California
Senior Software Engineer, January 1997 - February 1998
NeXT Software, Inc., Redwood City, California
Senior Software Engineer, July 1996 - December 1996
Technical lead and primary architect for Apple's WebCatalog project,
that became the basis of the Apple Online Store. Architected, designed,
implemented, debugged and tested the object model and framework used
by the editor and shopserver applications, and designed, implemented,
debugged and tested most of the editor and shopserver applications.
NeXT Software, Inc., Redwood City, California
Senior Software Engineer, August 1996 - December 1996
Senior SQA Engineer, March 1994 - August 1996
Responsible for development, maintenance and administration of NeXT's
Internal bug tracking system (Tracker/Tracker2). Maintained and
administrated the previous version of this software (which used a flat-file
storage medium). Simultaneously worked on both systems and provided
the software which kept both in constant live usage.
Canon Information Systems, Palo Alto, California
NeXT Project Team Member, January 1992 - February 1994
Wrote three scanning applications to work with the IX-series scanners, the
CJ10 and the CLC300/500 scanner/copier/printer devices. Designed and
Implemented the low-level interface and produced a series of objects for
the CJ10 and IX-series devices, allowing their use from other applications
running on remote machines.
Honors
National Merit Scholar, 1985-1989
National Science Foundation Honorable Mention, 1989
Princeton University Tuition Scholarship, 1989-1991
Special Skills and Interests
20+ years of programming experience on a wide variety of platforms and
languages, including FORTRAN, several Lisp variants and Java. Fluent in
French and Bengali. Hobbies include bridge, downhill skiing, basketball,
Ultimate Frisbee, racquetball, tabletop games and any team sports.
Voracious reader.
Publications
Stengel, R.F. and Sircar, S.K.
"Computer-Aided Design of Flight Control Systems"
1991 AIAA Controls Design Challenge,
New Orleans, LA, August 12-14, 1991.