About me
As a Software Developer
I have had 4 years of experience in PHP 4.x.x. I have also worked in Pear and frameworks like Tikiwiki, Joomla, Drupal and OS Commerse. Among these frameworks I had been involved as developer in eParliament Project, in which I customised and added features like voting, CAPTCHA, and various report features to Tikiwiki, which is a wiki and groupware in PHP-MySQL.
Besides PHP I have also worked in JAVA. Currently I am working as a JAVA developer (J2SE). I have gained some experience in JFC Swing and bit level speech programming JAVA.
- JFC Swing: I have a profound knowledge in JFC Swing development. I am developing custom Swing components to meet the requirements for illiterates in SambadProject.
- Bit Level Speech Programming:
As a technical Writer
I always have been interested in technical writing. During my previous job at Sambad Project at Madan Puraskaar Pustakalaya, I got the opportunity to co-other some of the technical papers with Sambad Team headed by Prof. Pat A. V. Hall. Luckily some of the papers have been always published in International Technical Journals.
- Content Development for Telecentres (Paper)
- Sambad – Computer Interfaces for Non-literates : HCI 2007 (Paper)
As an FOSS Activist
As an Interaction Designer Student
I am doing a masters in Interaction Design, from IT University, Göteborg, Sweden. I am particularly interested in designing new ways of interaction between people and IT enabled devices. Some of the projects and studies I have done during my two years Masters Study.
a. Interactive Graffiti Project in Ubiquitous Computing Course
b. User study of Curictus System
c. ITrainer Project in Interaction Design Project
d. Approximation of position and orientation of Senseboard device
e. Lohorung Dictionary for Linguistics Department, Göteborg University