# Puru Guna

> Software Engineer at Trulia

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/puruguna

Software engineer with senior level expertise in web technologies and junior level in mobile development.

Involved with full life cycle of application development including:
- Architecture of the application
- Development, testing and maintenance
- Server maintenance

Autodidact and self-motivated, learn quickly new technologies. Enjoy working in a Team, getting and giving advice.
Always looking for performance and code quality.

Specialty: Engineering, Software, Web, Hacking

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Trulia
Jan 2013 – Present
Work with the rental team.

### Software Engineer @ SMRT Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
SMRT Systems is a cloud based workflow management software company, focusing on specific vertical markets.
•	Lead the design and implementation of various back-end workflow features.
•	Improved the software to support various features that resulted in 200% improvement in revenue.
•	Led and implemented mobile clients for the workflow software, and added the corresponding server side changes.  
•	Actively participated in full development cycle, that involves collaboration with web designers, deployment, testing, and bug-fixing, and iterative enhancement. 
Technologies used: LAMP, JavaScript, Objective-C, Java, Python, Amazon EC2, S3, Authorize.Net API, Linea-Pro SDK.

### Developer @ Sharem
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Sharem was a startup aimed at building a web platform for sharing and borrowing items within a community.
•	Implemented the web-based platform as a social network project.
•	Single-handedly performed back-end, front-end, server admin, and UI/UX tasks.
Technologies: PHP(Yii framework), JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, MySQL, ImageMagick, Google/Amazon/Facebook APIs.

### Owner @ Kaliganet
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | Paris Area, France
Ran a one-man shop with focus on online business and IT solutions.
•	Designed and built a web portal to publish content, and monetize through CPC/CPM (10000 visitors/day peak).
•	Performed A/B Testing to optimize revenue, and built a web-crawler to search the web to gather target audience.
•	Built web sites and provided IT support for small businesses.
Technologies used: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, CSS, Photoshop.

### Intern Developer @ Cosmics
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | London, United Kingdom
Cosmics provided hosted PBX solutions to businesses.
•	Designed and implemented the front-end of the portal used by business clients.
•	Developed back-end modules to talk to internal servers as well as external telecom service provider.
Technologies used: PHP(CodeIgniter framework), SOAP, MySQL, Ajax, JavaScript.

### Intern Developer @ LaNetCie
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Paris Area, France
LaNetCie is an end-to-end IT provider for small businesses.
•	Added new functionality to the ERP system built in house, such as invoice editing, customer support tracking, customer IT inventory tracking.
Technologies used: Perl, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, CSS


## Education
### Certificate program Management  and Marketing of Information Technology
Dominican University of California

### Master in Computer Science
SUPINFO

### Bachelor's degree in (DUT) Two-year diploma from a university institute of technology
University of Paris XIII


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/purusho
- Portfolio: http://twitter.com/purusho

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/puruguna/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11