Mrinal Wadhwa

I build tools, tools to help you collect, tools to help you understand, tools to help you communicate—tools that can help you run a more informed business.

Building software tools is a craft & as a craftsman I obsess over every aspect of how software is forged—from algorithms to data structures; architectural patterns in code to system architectures; distribution to virtualization; automating tests and builds to automating infrastructures and deployments; unit testing code to testing systems for security; programming interfaces to user interfaces. Over the years, I’ve tried to learn & master these & other skills that go into making robust, fast, easy to use, secure software that doesn’t cost a fortune to develop and maintain.

While retaining the above broad perspective, I’ve tried to focus on 3 specific areas that I find interesting:

• User Interfaces
In enterprise software, the quality of user interaction hasn’t, traditionally, been a priority & I’ve spent a significant share of my career promoting the value of well-designed user experiences to various clients and building engaging interfaces in technologies like Flex/Flash, Modern HTML/JavaScript/CSS, Mobile UI toolkits for Android, iOS etc.

• Enterprise Software
At SAP, I was introduced to systems that help businesses ‘run better’ by analyzing business data and optimizing business processes. I find such systems fascinating and continue to help clients implement solutions across industries like Publishing, Health Care, Advertising & Manufacturing.

• Distributed Systems
Distribution, along with virtualization, is at the center of what we today call ‘Cloud Computing’. At EMC, I started my career working on a high availability solution & since then I've contributed code to various such distributed systems & developed a keen understanding of the nuances of a distributed world.

If you need help developing high quality, easy to use, fast & secure software tools then please get in touch at: email@mrinalwadhwa.com

• SAP Mentor

  SAP

  2008 - 2011
  
  “SAP Mentors are SAP's top experts and community influencers, around the world.” ~ SAP http://slidesha.re/QMfcf

• Adobe Community Champion / Adobe Community Professional

  Adobe

  2007 - Present
  
  “Adobe Community Champions are the ‘megaphone’ of the Adobe community.” ~ Adobe

• Adobe Developer Spotlight

  Adobe
  • 2007

  “The Developer Spotlight program is where we periodically feature a developer who is pushing the limits with our technologies, and contributing to the larger Adobe developer community in a significant way” ~ Adobe
  
  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/spotlight/articles/spotlight_mwadhwa.html
  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/spotlight/articles/developer_spotlight.html

• Engineer of the Quarter

  SAP
  • April 2007

  “displayed significant leadership in the support of SAP's business throughout the quarter. His dedication to excellence is exemplary and focused on our unwavering comitment to help each customer become a best run business” ~ Senior Vice President, SAP

• Performance Recognition Award

  EMC
  • March 2006

• Contributor of the Month

  EMC
  • January 2005

  Recognized for my accomplishments in the very first month of joining EMC as an Intern

• Talk: An Introduction to processing BigData with Apache Hadoop

  • Open DataCamp
  • March 3, 2013
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  A 2.5 hour introductory workshop on Hadoop. We looked the platform’s strengths and weaknesses, some code and more.

• TALK: Bits, Bytes and Blobs: Binary Programming in JavaScript

  • Hasgeek: jsFoo — India's premier JavaScript conference
  • January 21, 2012
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  A primer on how to work on binary data with Javascript in web browsers.

• TALK: GPU Programming in Web Browsers with WebGL

  • Hasgeek: MetaRefresh — India's leading conference on User Interfaces
  • April 21, 2012
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  An introductory tutorial to the fundamentals of GPU programming with WebGL.

• TALK: Transport Layer Security

  • null – The Open Security Community
  • August 21, 2011
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  An introduction to the TLS 1.2 spec presented at null Bangalore.

• TALK: Molehill — GPU acceleration in Flash Player

  • Adobe
  • July 27, 2011
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  An introduction to GPU accelerated applications in Flash Player with the Flash Player Molehill API

• TALK: Pixel Play — Bitmap manipulation in Flash Player

  • Adobe
  • August 26, 2010
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  An in-depth tutorial on working with Bitmaps in flash player.

• TALK: Custom Components in Flex 4

  • Boston Flex Application Incubator
  • June 15, 2010
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  An introduction to the Spark Component Architecture in Flex 4

• TALK: JavaScript Performance: How to measure, study and optimize the performance of JavaScript code.

  • Barcamp Bangalore
  • June 2010
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  How to measure, study and optimize the performance of JavaScript code.

• TALK: A tutorial on Rich Internet Applications

  • The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • January 23, 2010
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  A 4-hour tutorial on the Rich Internet Applications, various available technologies, an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

• TALK: Component Architecture in Flex 4

  • Adobe
  • November 24, 2009
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  An introduction to the Spark Component Architecture in Flex 4

• TALK: Rapid UI Prototyping — Lessons from the trenches

  • USID Foundation — India's leading UI Design Conference
  • September 18, 2009
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa, Uday M. Shankar

  Tips and tricks for Rapid User Interface Prototyping.

• TALK: An Introduction to SAP Flash Islands

  • SAP
  • September 23, 2009
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  An introduction to SAP WebDynpro Flash Islands.

• TALK: Optimizing performance of Flex and ActionScript

  • Bangalore Flex User Group
  • December 16, 2007
  Authors: Mrinal Wadhwa

  Tips and tricks on how to get the performance from your Flex and pure ActionScript applications running in the Flash Player.

1. Business Intelligence
2. Data Analysis
3. Statistics
4. Data Visualization
5. Data Integration
6. Distributed Systems
7. Cloud Computing
8. Enterprise Software
9. Application Architecture
10. User Interface
11. Web Applications
12. Mobile Applications
13. Java
14. SAP
15. JavaScript
16. jQuery
17. HTML
18. CSS
19. ActionScript
20. Flex
21. Flash
22. RIA
23. Android
24. Databases
25. HTML 5
26. Agile Methodologies
27. Hadoop
28. Big Data
29. Business Analytics
30. Data Warehouse Architecture
31. Data Governance
32. Data Quality
33. SaaS
34. Application Security
35. Parallel Algorithms
36. Erlang
37. C
38. C++
39. Python
40. PHP
41. Ruby
42. C#
43. Statistical Learning
44. Objective-C
45. iOS
46. DevOps
47. Puppet
48. Chef

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• Apache ESME

  • 2008 to 2009
  Team Members: Mrinal Wadhwa, Richard Hirsch, Anne Kathrine Petterøe, Vassil Dichev, David Pollak, Bertrand Delacrétaz, Darren Hague

  Apache ESME is an open source, secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to various sources of information within and across enterprises.

• erlang-bcrypt: bcrypt hash passwords in erlang

  • 2010 to 2010
  Team Members: Mrinal Wadhwa, Hunter Morris

  erlang-bcrypt is a wrapper around the OpenBSD Blowfish password hashing algorithm, as described in "A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme" by Niels Provos and David Mazieres.

• eAMF: serialize/deserialize flash action message format in erlang

  • 2009 to 2009
  Team Members: Mrinal Wadhwa

  eAMF provides Action Message Format (AMF) support for Erlang

• crayons.data.binding: very lightweight and fast data binding in actionscript

  • 2011 to 2011
  Team Members: Mrinal Wadhwa

  crayons.data.binding is an as3 data binding implementation using signals

• adaptImages: responsive images in html5 pages using javascript

  • 2012 to Present
  Team Members: Mrinal Wadhwa

  adaptImages.js provides support for responsive images on your web pages today.

• Sun Certified Java Programmer

  • Sun Microsystems
  • 2007

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Hindi

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Websites:

• Open Source from Mrinal
• Presentations from Mrinal
• Pinboards from Mrinal