Skills

Background / Trivia

• I started programming in highschool in BASIC, when my school bought its first computer
• I read about 50 books/year on an average, some years around 100
• I have lived for years in the following countries: US, India, Singapore, Indonesia
• I used to be a part time martial arts instructor in college
• I held part time jobs as accountant and technician, from 11-17yrs with a manufacturing business owned my parents.
• I am fluent in 3 natural languages, and have basic skills in another 2
• My earliest projects used electrical and electronicelectronics, and electromechanical systems, and I still enjoy working on robotics, IoT and hobby electronics.

General

• I can use first principles thinking and deconstruct complex problems
• I can program computers, phones, microprocessors, and other such machines
• I also like working with electrical and mechanical machines: automobiles, bikes, appliances and such.

Technical skills

• I can work in many modern programming languages and stacks or learn new ones pretty fast.
• I am good with software architecture, system design, optmimizations, performance tuning, porting and such.
• Programming languages : C, C++, C#, Javascript, PHP, Python, SQL, Typescript, VB, VB.net, Shell Script, Google Script, VBA, and probably a few others
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, OSX
• PaaS: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Front-end Frameworks: React, React Native, Angular, Vue
• Automation: Sikuli, Selenium, UiPath, PowerAutomate

Skills in the learning queue

• Rust
• Golang
• Biosensors
• Reasoning systems
• Advanced Symbolic logic

P.S.

I find LinkedIn to be rather distasteful overall, but do maintain a profile there to stay connected to the mainstream tech industry, and it has a skill section too.

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