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About Sameer Niphadkar :
Sameer Niphadkar was born sometime ago in the eighties in the cosmopolitan city of Mumbai in India. It was a time when India was about to transform itself as an IT super-power. Most of the Indian IT MNCs were still in their nascent stages. It was during this IT or call it Computer revolution period that Sameer started his education in Mumbai. Though both his parents were in biology and medicine based fields, Sameer had an earnest affinity towards computers right from his early childhood.
Initially it started just as a hobby or may be even addiction towards computer games. But with the endless tapping of keys and continuous maneuvering of the trackball at his fathers office, Sameer developed a persistent philia towards these great machines. And yes ! not to mention he was lucky enough to get his own personal PC at the age of 13, at a time in India, when PCs were meant either for work or only for spoilt rich kids. The Pentium 133 Mhz, 16 MB RAM PC was fairly advanced by its contemporaries which were all i486 m/cs. And thus began the adventure of associating, programming, development, designing, system management, networking, synchronization, experimentation and knowledge which has continued till date.
Sameer has worked with programming languages like C/C++, Java, Perl and his current favorite Python. He has scripted in ASP, JSP, Perl and PHP. He has worked on Microsoft Windows 9x, 2000, XP and 2003 servers. But his main primary OS is GNU/Linux and its distros like Redhat, SUSE, Slackware, Gentoo and Ubuntu (Debian based) etc along with Open Solaris. He has also worked on architectures like Intel x86-Itanium , AMD 64, IBM RS 6000, SUN SPARC. He is a member of the Mumbai GLUG, the Ubuntu India team and the Fedora Documentation project. He was working on his open source project at the Indian Institute of Technology, sponsored by Redhat India. Incidently, that project won the "Best Engineering Project" award from Indian Society of Tehnical Education. Last heard, he was pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at George Mason University. His latest area of intrest includes - Distributed Systems and Networks. You can read his blog at Sniphadkar Pensive and mail him sniphadk@gmu.edu
