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
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AppLoop
AppLoop is an advertising solution for mobile applications that allows advertisers to highly target users based on real-time location.
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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
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Sam Purtill
Product manager by day, software engineer by night. Living in San Francisco and working on YouNoodle around the clock.
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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!
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Daniel Ha
American, 21, Co-founder of Disqus