RSSNavin
I live in Pune, India.
I am currently a co-founder and CTO at bharathealth.com, a startup focused on creating online software products in the healthcare industry. I am also the creator of PuneTech.com, a portal for the tech community in Pune, India. In the past I’ve worked for large companies, and small; I’ve worked in India and in the US; I’ve seen a successful exit, and I’ve seen a dotcom failure; I’ve done product development, and I’ve done research; I’ve written consumer software, and I’ve written enterprise software; and I’ve been a developer, I’ve been an architect, and I’ve been a manager (but hated it).
I’ve done my PhD with David DeWitt in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin in 1999, and a B.Tech. in Computer Sciences from IIT-Bombay before that. I’m interested in a number of areas of computer science, including: highly scalable systems; distributed and fault-tolerant software systems; text search, information retrieval, and analysis of unstructured information. My latest interest is the understanding of what drives online communities.
See my resume (HTML, PDF, Postscript), or my linked-in profile for further details.
For social networking I use: linked-in (professional contacts), gtalk (for IM), and a number of twitter accounts for different purposes: @_navin (tech), @ngkabra (info), @punetech (what the name implies), @ngkx (conversational)
Check out these other websites that I am associated with: Punetech.com – technology in Pune, ForPune.com – ask any question about Pune, and get answers, my archive of Hindi Song Lyrics (no MP3s, just lyrics!), Meeta’s Hindi Movie Reviews, and my blog of random interesting information from the internet.
You can write to me at: navin@smriti.com.
Essays and Articles
Here are some articles I’ve written that you might find useful:
- How to choose an engineering college & branch after 12th std.
- 5 things that Computer Science Engineering students should focus on
- Why your talks/documents/presentations/blogs must contain concrete examples
- The “He will listen if you tell him” syndrome
- Why you should be on Twitter – and how to use it (a little dated, but still useful)
On intellectual property
Most people have a very poor understanding of copyrights and patents. Hence, I created this quiz of real-life-like situations involving intellectual properties.
A follow-up to the quiz is this is a series of 5 articles giving a “practical” overview of intellectual property laws:
