I was born in this beautiful city of Bangalore on June 11 1982. From that auspicious day its been a joy growing up in this garden city for the past 23 years. According to me, this is the best place in the world to live even with all the traffic chaos and other problems the city is facing. Films, a phenomenon passed on by cousin to me has been integral part of my life since my childhood. It would be hard now, for people associated with me, to believe that I used to imagine stories and team up with my friends to make our "dummy" films since early part of school days. This would have been my chosen profession by interest, but as usual since parents in India want their son/daughter to choose a more "secure" career I took up my studies seriously to earn a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering (Visveshwariah Technological University) in the year 2004.

Cricket has been my passion since my childhood as it is to millions of Indians. I enjoy both playing and watching cricket.

Mine is a very large family with lots of cousins, uncles, aunties with the usual jealousy, anger, tension between some of them as in a typical Indian family. Coming to our own sub-family, I am the eldest son as usual with lots of responsibilities, with my brother Vishal being more carefree and less responsible. My mom and my grandmother are the guiding force behind us. I joined Servelots Infotech Pvt Ltd on Febraury 22, 2005 to pursue my IT career. Programming is an an eternal joy I enjoy forgetting everything else in my life and keeps motivated me to sit days together continuously. It gives me immense pleasure when a task conceived by me is completed successfully.

My experience at Servelots has been wonderful, I have learnt so many things with help of my wonderful and helpful colleagues and of course Google. The thought that my work helps NGO's excites me a lot. Working for one of our client SAATHII which focuses on issues like AIDS and our Tsunami Portal (knowledge bank for tsunami rehabilitation) has made me put my work in a much better perspective. My new code base experience was absolutely great. Working with Jason was such a delight it completely transformed me in terms of the way a "program should be written". Working on technologies like hibernate has improved my learning curve tremendously.

With this release our Pantoto software is in a much better state to serve the "information management" needs and hope it further improves and there will be lot many features in next release. I would like to sincerely acknowledge all my colleagues who helped at many stages in new code-base, especially Sapana for being considerate enough to give me more time and extend my deadline very often.

Special thanks to Surekha, Raghavan, Arun, Geetha, Jason and Dinesh.