Vinayak Hegde

Current

• Secretary at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Bangalore
• Co-founder at HeadStart Network Foundation
• Architect at Akamai Technologies

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Vinayak Hegde’s Summary

I like to work with smart people and love solving challenging problems.

- Software Professional with 7+ years of experience in Distributed systems, Large-scale networks and Programming Languages.
- Worked as an individual contributor as well as in a leadership position to design and build large-scale distributed systems.
- Involved in end-to-end product development from conceptualization to deployment.
- Involved in hiring and bootstrapping complete teams for product development.

Vinayak Hegde’s Specialties:

- Software architecture and implementation of Large-Scale systems.
- Measuring Internet performance and debugging Internet related performance issues.

Vinayak Hegde’s Experience

• Secretary

  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Bangalore

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years )

  The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) is one of the most prestigious and well cited resources for research in computer science. I have been instrumental in setting up and operating the Bangalore chapter of ACM which organizes 'Compute' (http://compute.acmbangalore.org), the annual international conference, monthly talks and technology tutorials. ACM Bangalore has relationships with all the prestigious technical institutes in India including the IITs, IISc, TIFR, NITs and state universities.

• Co-founder

  HeadStart Network Foundation

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  HeadStart is a not-for-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship. HeadStart's stated objective is to bring entrepreneurs and startups and new product companies, prospective investors and customers together. I assist with interfacing with investors and startupsfor HeadStart which organizes a yearly conference (headstart.in), monthly meetups (http://startupsaturday.in) across 4 cities in India.
  
  I am also an active volunteer for Startup Saturday Bangalore.

• Architect

  Akamai Technologies

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; AKAM; Internet industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  * Reviewing design of new products and new features
  * Measuring, monitoring end-to-end performance of complete Productline.
  * Improving robustness and improving fault-tolerance of system as we scale the productline
  * Identify new problem areas related to Productline and spec them out.