My Journey so far...

Hi friend !!! Thanks for visiting my blog.
Let me try to introduce my self to you.
I love being alive and living the life. I believe that we are into this world for having adventure, great experience , lots of fun and great time . And believe that someday we would have to leave every thing behind and move on to God's next play.
Having said that , I would want to live a life of my choice and enjoy what I do, day in and day out. I spend most of my waking hours doing programming and I completely love the experience. I would like to thank my fate to have introduced me to the world of computers very early in my life. I did "Diploma in Computer Science an Technology" from Quli Qutub Shah Govt. Polytechnic after my 10th standard.
During my polytechnic, I learn my first programming language namely "C"  and other fundamental subjects like Data structures , Databases , Discrete mathematics. My first favorite programming book is "Let us C" by Yeshwanth Kanetkar. I would like to thank my fate to have introduced me to such a nice book and also being able to provide access to PC to practice programming. In those days I used to go to my Cousin, Shrawan Kumar's, institute every day and competed this book all by myself. I did each and every exercise from this book. Later I did other books of this author like "Pointers in C" and "Test your C skills".
When I was in final year of Polytechnic, I started learning C++. Yet again I came across a nice book in C++ as well.It was "Learning C++ : Hands on Approach" by Eric P. Nagler. Even though I started this book during the final days of my Polytechnic, I could only complete it in my Engineering. I did my Engineering in Information Technology from "Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology". Another book that helped me understand C++ and Object oriented programming concepts better is "C++ FAQs".
During my engineering, we had a very interesting book in our syllabus. It was "Data Structures and Algorithms with Object Oriented Design Patterns in C++" by Bruno R. Preiss. Although I could not do this book completely but what ever part of that book that I did, I enjoyed it completely.
During my engineering, I came across a contest that was sponsored by Microsoft namely "Imagine Cup". To compete in this contest, I started learning C#.net . I attended a 3 day workshop on Dot net by my favorite author Mr Yeshwant kanekar. During this workshop Kanetker told about a nice book on C# named "Inside C#" by Tom Archer. I did this book and also learned Asp.net by listening to web cast called "Asp.net Soups to Nuts" by William Steele . Although I never could do well at that contest but learning Dot net has helped me to earn my bread and butter later in my life.

During my Polytechnic and Engineering , I also worked as a Part Time Home Tutor for School students.

Apart from these , I was fortunate enough to have come across a great online programming contests site called TopCoder ,  during my engineering . This site has help me realize how bad I was at programming. It helped me get out of the illusion that I was too good at programming already. I still remember the first algorithm contest on this site and how long I took to properly solve the first basic problem in that contest. Later when I went though other contestants submission , I realized how much I was lacking in programming. I practiced regularly on this site for a while but I never could really do well on this site. I loved this site so much that I even spent a few years as freelancer on this site after my engineering.

Later, I joined Neudesic Technologies as a "Custom Application Developer". Initially I worked for about an years or so, on a Maintenance Project for an Insurance Client. Although I was hardly coding on that project , that expedience of bug fixing and maintaining the existing code, has definitely helped me test my "Analysis" skills thoroughly.
Today I work for the same client but on a new development project. This project is on latest Microsoft technologies like MVC , Entity framework etc. But the most interesting part of this project is that, its based on Functional Programming. I never had any experience on Functional Programming prior. This project is definitely helping me understand this new paradigm of programming.

Recently, I have also started going on Trekking. Thanks to my colleague  , Manohar Tummala, who introduced me to "Greater Hyderabad Adventure Club". I went on 2 treks so far.

Well, this was, in brief, about my past and current life.

In my next post I will share with you , what I wish I would do with rest of my life.

Thanks once again for visiting this blog !!!