I build things, solve problems and bestow upon unwitting folk my unsolicited product opinions.
I currently work as a backend Software Engineer at Yelp where I solve problems and build things around understanding places, locations and geocoding.
During the summer of 2014 I interned at Rackspace in Atlanta, working on and around Openstack. Grad school was preceded by a stint as Systems Software Engineer in the healthcare division of Siemens in Bangalore. I did some fun work around electronic control of diesel engines in the summer of 2011 as an intern in the Automotive division of Mahindra & Mahindra.
I write occasionally (less frequently these days than I would care to admit) at SeePha. This started off many years ago on blogger as an arbit collection of personal posts and at the most chuckle-inducing rants but seems to have grown older and wiser over the years into a longer form comprising quite a few travelogues. Travelling has been a deeply personal and favourite pastime.
The other side to storytelling comes in the form of photography, another evolving and satisfying hobby.
1998: Oh, look a violin!
2001: I hate going to violin classes, mum. I want a keyboard. I like that thing.
2002: I love this keyboard. If only I had my own.
2007: The drums is where it’s at. This is so intuitive. And the most satisfying thing to play.
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2014: Oh look, a violin! I wonder if I can still play it like old.
2015: I love the violin. Man I know nothing about wind instruments. Also, the Irish whistle sounds beautiful.
2016: I absolutely love the damn whistle. Oh look, the bansuri is played with the same finger-placement!
Scatterbrained and occasionally on the lookout for a more expressive medium.
For a while, it was a case of merely having strong opinions about the above. This site is one experiment where the itch was actually scratched. Moving my old blog from blogger to a newer, github-pages hosted one is another.