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Engineering
I am is a Software Engineer with around 17 years under the belt in the space. I started off working with a financial software development house and was associated with the Architecture and Emerging Technologies division of a large financial institution. I have subsequently worked with one of the largest Telcos where amongst many other activities, I was an early adopter of using internet technologies for web based application development, was the architect for perhaps the first application in the company to be built using Java and CORBA, was nominated to be a panelist at a software symposium to talk about Java and also was appointed to be a member of the corporate wide groups for Object Orientation Realization, Java, CORBA and middleware. In the last 9 years an independent Software Architecture and Design Consultant, I have worked on providing solutions to a number of diverse problems including building interactive educational software for pre teen children, building administration suites for workflow authoring applications, creating applications that compute electromagnetic wave signal strengths in 3D spaces, and building frameworks and applications which process in excess of a million financial transactions per hour. Along the way I have switched across a number of roles including those of a developer, chief architect, chief technology officer and head of product development. I continue to be passionate about programming and design and all that comes under the umbrella of software engineering.

Management :

I did my post graduation from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and have been involved in Senior Management positions and have managed team sizes in excess of 120 persons

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Web Presence :

I contribute to the following feeds :

• Blog : On Software Engineering.
• Tumble log : Pages, links and other trivia I found interestin
• Other Blog : Non technical and / or personal views