I am just another human being living on planet earth, I believe in technology and try to keep myself constantly updated with latest technologies around the corner. I am an avid computer programmer and also a sys admin who spends most of his time in configuring and keeping the services up with least errors and high availability. I am also a gadgets freak and tend to hack around with lots of interesting hardware like smart phone, wii remote, smart cards, gps receiver, usb data card etc… I am also highly interested in the field of computer and internet security and tend to do lot of experimentation with networks and lot of viruses. I am also a web programmer and designer, who loves to get the things done on the fly and go to extremes to make my app behave same on different platforms and form factors. Currently I am pursuing my Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I completed my Bachelors of Engineering study at M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology and Masters of Technology from IITK. I had a short stint at startup with my friends at Arnium Technologies Pvt Ltd by being its CTO and forming the initial development team and infrastructure, I continue passively as a Director now. I spend my free time in mentoring students for their projects and manage some administrative work for departmental student body. I am also a FOSS enthusiast and currently manage the FOSS group, navya, here in IITK. I maintain my online presence in lot of social networking sites and following are the links for same: