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Sahil Desai

Cocoa Developer

Headline: Engineer
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://sahild.com
Industries: Computing, Media, Mobile
Skills: C/C++, Embedded systems, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, MacOS applications, Perl, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development
Next step: I want to spend 20 hours a day writing iPhone applications.
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Interested in: Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Getting press, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Trading services
Schools: Purdue University System - Purdue University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Yahoo! Inc.
Position: iPhone App Developer
Time period: August 2009 - Present
Description: Working on really cool iPhone apps

Employer: Motivism
Position: Cocoa Maker
Time period: July 2008 - Present
Description: iPhone application development

Employer: E*TRADE Financial [full time]
Position: Work experience
Time period: June 2008 - Present
Description: Retail systems webservices development.

Employer: TheTumbler [independent iPhone development]
Position: Work experience
Time period: June 2008 - Present
Description: Developed a native iPhone application (http://motivism.com/thetumbler) that allows
for posting to the popular blogging service, Tumblr (http://tumblr.com).

Employer: Tablet PC Software Development
Position: Lead developer
Description: Acted as lead developer in a project aimed at adding functionality to the Tablet PC that is not readily available in when in Tablet Mode.

Employer: Purdue Computer Science
Position: Teaching Assistant
Description: Taught a C & Matlab programming lab to a class of ~25 students - CS159
Taught a Javascript programming lab to a class of ~25 students - CS177

EDUCATION

University: Purdue University System - Purdue University
Time period: 2008
Degree: Computer Science, BSc

INFORMATION

Sports: Golf, Tennis, Cricket, Running, Squash, Badminton
Memberships: Member, Purdue Mac User Group 2004 - Present
Freshmen Mentor, Purdue CS Dept. 2006 - 2007
Awards: Awarded Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Scholarship. 2005, ’07, ‘08
Awarded Semester Honors. SP04, FA07
Awarded Boeing Diversity Scholarship. 2006 - 2007

Sahil's Startups (1)

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  • Bump Technologies

    Bump Technologies builds mobile applications that allow smartphones to transfer data with very little effort required on the users part

Sahil is Following (7)

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  • Pinch Media

    Pinch Media is the FeedBurner of native iPhone applications.

  • Disqus

    A webwide discussion community for blogs.

  • AppLoop

    AppLoop is an advertising solution for mobile applications that allows advertisers to highly target users based on real-time location.

  • TED.com

    Inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers

Sahil's Contacts (6)

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  • Sam Feuer

    Award winning web design, flash, animation, 3d, maya, post production, audio, television, commericals, iphone applications, android development

  • Sam Purtill

    Product manager by day, software engineer by night. Living in San Francisco and working on YouNoodle around the clock.

  • gene tsai

    Gene is a software developer specializing in building applications on iphone, ajax, flash, with super agile software development techniques, resulting in cool stuff that millions of people use!

  • Daniel Ha

    American, 21, Co-founder of Disqus