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I live in Pune, India.

I am currently on a sabbatical - I am taking time off to explore some ideas I have about information processing on the internet, and to generally get a better understanding of how to build online communities organized around specific areas of interest.

I am also doing some small consultation projects in my areas of interest.

I’ve done my PhD with David DeWitt in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsinin 1999. I’ve worked with large corporations and startups, in US and in India. I’ve always remained a techie and stayed away from management. I’ve worked on distributed and fault-tolerant software systems; file-systems and storage technology; text search and information retrieval; design and implementation of database systems.

See my resume (HTML, PDF, Postscript), or my linked-in profile for further details.

For social networking I use: linked-in (professional contacts), facebook (for …umm… unprofessional contacts), gtalk (for IM), and twitter (for …umm… twittering)

Check out these other websites that I am associated with: Punetech.com - technology in Pune, my archive of Hindi Song Lyrics (no MP3s, just lyrics!), Meeta’s Hindi Movie Reviews, my blog of random interesting information from the internet, BasKya - Bollywood Humor, the DeepGriha Blog (an NGO working in Pune slums), and the Lokayan Blog (which contains thoughts of people working in the social sector in India).