Professional Work Experience
Software & Web Services Engineer, PayPal Inc. (May 2014 – Present)
Working as Software and Web Services Engineer (Mid level Software Engineer position)
Responsibilities include:
Working within Platforms division to enrich APIs for PayPal Developers
Working on Application Lifecycle Management Service
Working on end to end including Development, Unit/smoke testing, Automation, Release etc.
Working on Java Stack with Jboss, Eclipse and REST APIs, Scala & more
PayPal Website
Software Engineer, Shutterfly Inc (Jul 2013 – May 2014)
Worked as Web Engineer II (Mid level Software Engineer position)
Worked on cross–functional engagement with Shutterfly brands and Integration of Order Management System of these different brands using diverse technologies and platforms (LAMP Stack, Java Stack)
Worked on extracting code out of existing OMS cron jobs and convert them into PHP REST Web Services.
Worked on projects involving PHP ORM DB design, invoking P13n web services, improving UI and developing new reports.
Shutterfly Website
Software Engineer Intern, Demand Media (Jan 2013 – May 2013)
Responsibilities include:
To shadow mentor in order to learn how the rest of the company operates
To learn how to interact with the non-engineering members of team
To learn how to develop and release particular property by performing minor maintenance
To work with mentor for a small to medium sized project
To be vocal about ideas and opinions
Demand Media Website
Web Developer, Decorrev Inc (Sep 2012 – Dec 2012)
Responsible for building out the feature sets created by the design team in conjunction with the launch of the platform. Collabration with Senior Developers & CTO to develop platform from scratch.
Decorrev Website
Web Engineering Intern, Shutterfly Inc (May – Aug 2012)
Designed and build web-based applications for the Order Management System module and wrote Restful API web services for third party vendors to automate the CMT process. Collaborated with third party vendors and built these services to support their existing system.
Built a productivity report that effectively reduced time of other teams and increased their productivity.
Shutterfly Website
Teaching Assistant (Course Grader), USC (Jan 2012 – Present)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Involved in grading of student projects for course Information retrieval and Web Search engines (CSCI 572) for a class of 80 for the Spring 2013 Semester under Prof. Ellis Horowitz and Prof. Chris Mattman
Course Homepage for CSCI 572 for Spring 2013
Involved in coordinating with new graders and grading of student projects for course Internet & Web Technology (CSCI 571) for a class of 300 for the Fall 2012 Semester under Prof. Ellis Horowitz and Prof. Marco Papa
Involved in grading of student projects for course Internet & Web Technology (CSCI 571) for a class of 250 for the Spring 2012 Semester under Prof. Ellis Horowitz and Prof. Marco Papa
Course Homepage for CSCI 571 Fall 2012
Student Web Developer, USC (Feb – May 2012)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Developing a centralized app interface to syndicate major USC news publications.
Using Yahoo Pipes API, Treemap, Javascript, HTML5, CSS.
Working to develop a license-ready program for implementation at other universities.
Project Homepage : Annenberg Scoop - Student News Aggregator
Application Development Intern, USC (Sep 2011 – Jan 2012)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
CMS Development using SharePoint 2010
Web development using HTML/CSS & QA Testing.
Involved with creation, maintenance & Quality Assurance testing of various subsidiary websites.
Marschall School Website
Senior Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services (Nov 2008 – Jun 2011)
New Delhi, India
Worked in Central Board of Direct Taxes project, involving handling of Income tax application for India, development in Oracle Forms & Reports using PL/SQL, testing, deployment, post production support & End user training
Administered a module involving PHP, XML, MySQL & Ajax to synchronize the records of Indian Income Tax Users Developed an application for the Delhi Excise Tax Department application using Oracle Forms & Reports
Deputed at Client location for System administration, Debugging, Maintenance, user support & client training
Tata Consultancy Services Website
Lecturer of Computer Science Engineering, UP Tech University (Aug - Nov 2008)
Lucknow, India
Lecturer of C Programming Language & Data Structures for the fall 2008 semester for a class of 60 students.
Software Engineer Intern, HCL Technologies Ltd. (Jun - Jul 2007)
Noida (National Capital Region)
Uttar Pradesh, India
Implemented a 3-Tier solution in a business web app using ASP.NET with C#. Improved scalability & security of the application
HCL Technologies Website
Admin, WindowsVJ (Aug 2009 – Present)
Writing code examples, tutorials, wiki styled how-to's, technology/product reviews from a consumer as well as technical user blended views.
Deployed and maintained PHP Code base behind Wordpress 3.5.2 CMS and MySQL database supporting the CMS.
Worked with tools like cpanel, filezilla, Fantasico De Luxe, npp++ ftp plugin
Integration of web services like Google Adsense, Facebook Plugins, Akismet anti splamming, Recommendation system for blog posts/articles, Google Feedburner, CAPTCHA, RSS Feeds.
Worked with web configurations, troubleshooting, debugging, security, upgrade and enhancement of the entire web service to perform a seam less experience.
Worked over Responsive and Modern UI (Microsoft Windows 8 Inspired) design and layout for the entire service.
WindowsVJ Website
Contact Me
Vasu Jain
Software Developer Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
California, USA
Email: Vasu Jain