Profile

I have managed and developed software solutions for more than 7 years. I have started my own software consulting firm. Currently we are working on products and components for StataLabs.
Befoer I started consulting, for a few years I worked on Embedded/ Systems software for Applied Materials (http://www.appliedmaterials.com) on behalf of Mindteck Ltd., (http://www.mindteck.com).

I am a committer for open source projects in apache.org (http://jakarta.apache.org) and also develop ANT (http://ant.apache.org) based products and tasks.

You can see a list of some of the commercial and open-source software projects I worked/ am working on.

• Post Graduate Diploma student in Intelectual Property Law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore
• Post Graduate Diploma student in Software Technology from the National Centre for Software Technology (currently part of C-DAC)
• Sun Certified Java Programmer (Java 2.0)
• B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Govt. College of Engineering under the University of Kerala (1992-'96)
  • Project:
    • Synthesis and Analysis of Mechanisms with Computer Simulation in C
  • Seminars: 
    • Virtual Reality.
    • Artificial Intelligence and Expert System

• Singing and listening to soft music (was a Member of the church choir) 
• Oil paintings (Used to conduct painting exhibitions) 
• Basketball (Captain 1996 of the Govt. CET team) 
• Designing and playing Adventure games. 
• Playing Computer games and War Games (War games research group's De Bellis Multitudinis, Sid Meier's Gettysburg, etc) 
• Parlour magic
• Movies and Theatre (production and viewing)

• Member of Toastmasters club, Applied Materials
• Chairman of College Union 1996 : Govt. College of Engineering.
• Magazine Editor to the College Union 1995: Govt. College of Engineering.
• Chief Organizer, Pot Pourri 1996, : International Youth Hostels Association (an intercollegiate Arts festival).
• President 1996 : Rotract - Trivandrum (N).
• Executive Board Member 1995 - 2002: COSA.