MSIT Program

Praveen Garimella
Carnegie Mellon West Coast Campus
Moffett Field, CA

email: praveeng at cmu.edu

I have done Master of Science in Information Technology with Software Engineering as my specialization from Jawahar Lal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.

Based on my academic performance and interviews that were conducted I was chosen for the student exchange program across the MSIT learning centers. Dr. Raj Reddy felt that the new west coast campus of Carnegie Mellon University would be ideally suited for our objective, which is to understand the concept of learning by doing and implement these ideas back home in India. My academic experiences prepares me aptly for the program since the MSIT program from which I come is based on the concept of learning by doing and promotes self paced project centric learning. Having done several projects related to Java technologies and open sources I am now open to learn any new technology and realize that technology is a medium and what matters is the end objective. I am familiar with the e-governance domain and education system in India and have done projects for small and medium scale industries. Hailing from a software engineering specialization I am interested in continuing my research activities at CMU (particularly in Software Architectures and Information Security). I am familiar with software engineering concepts and now look forward to gain an understanding as to management of software systems.

In my 2yrs of MSIT (Masters of Science in Information Technology) I did several projects and studied subjects that are core to the field of computer science. Also I used the opportunity to update myself with the latest technologies.
I worked in several of the projects related to e-governance domain many of which are being implemented by the government of Andhra Pradesh, India. For the work done in this field I was awarded a cash prize by the Honorable chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Mr. N. Chandra Babu Naidu
Perhaps the project work that was most successful and won several accolades is ‘Electronic Distribution of Examination Papers’. This system was developed to solve the problem of examination paper leakage in JNTU affiliated engineering colleges. This system is being widely used in 200 engineering colleges across the state of Andhra Pradesh and also at the examination branch of JNTU. I was appreciated by the Vice chancellor of JNTU and was awarded a cash prize
I put pioneering effort to introduce the ‘Service Oriented Architecture’ into the e-governance domain by developing a reference application called ‘Project Blossom’.
I worked intensively on Java related technologies and also used open sources extensively.
Have lead a team to provide a solution to automate an enterprise namely, Diamond Hatcheries Limited.