Who am I?
I am originally from Lucknow, India where I did my schooling at La Martiniere College. After my high-school, I won a scholarship for undergraduate studies and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I graduated with a degree in Comp. Engg. in 2006, and have since worked on several different things. I have the two best parents in the world. My father is a professor at King George's Medical University in Lucknow and my mother is a doctor. I have the sweetest sister too :)
I love computers, especially creating new software and have been involved in several projects both personal and for someone else. I used to code in C/C++ earlier (or BASIC really earlier) but lately, I've begun to mostly hack in Java (see my projects); and in which I've grown somewhat experienced over the past few years. I do try my hand occasionally at some of the more "cool" languages such as Python whenever I feel inclined. I am also as interested in making code beautiful as much as making it work, and feel learning design patterns should be made compulsory for every programmer. The user should be able to enjoy beauty too, so user interfaces is another area which I like a lot. Here's my resume [pdf], a more formal description of my life so far.
I like to listen to music a lot, especially old hindi songs and english rock. I am addicted to drinking chai (tea with lots of milk and sugar), and my idea of paradise is lying on a couch with a laptop (with wireless of course), a cup of my favorite drink in hand and the melodious voice of manna dey floating in the air around :~)
Proteus is a Design and Simulation Tool which runs either as a standalone application or over the web and can be used to model, design and simulate non-linear dynamical systems. 
Instapol is an easy to setup and use Audience Response System using COTS (Commercial, Off The Shelf) components. 
Passepartout is a bike-race simulator game in which several players can compete with each other on a real track. You can ride an actual bike (in which case you must carry a phone+gps device to transmit your position), or use a stationary bike (which has sensors to read velocity etc.) The position of all the players is displayed (in real-time) on a map. 
TestCentrum: An easy to use Computer-Based Assessment tool. 
Keyhole (Look into another world...) is the ultra-cool, most-high and best-in-the-world Remote Desktop Application. It 1) Runs on all platforms, 2) Over the Internet and 3) Inside a browser as an applet. Can your remote desktop software do that? 
A basic Pathology Management Software. 
For creating simple skeleton-based animation. 
Image resizer using Seam Carving to scale images. 
A simple ray tracer, with diffuse and specular reflection, refraction, shadows, super-sampling and a variety of primitives. 
Kookaburra is an application which allows you to play with the Ken-Burns effect. 
Ognat is a server-cum-platform for creating multi-user games. Things such as creating a "room", players joining a game, sending/receiving play status messages and an in-built chat are some of the features that it provides. This 2-player minesweeper game has been written on top of this platform. 
Mandelbrot Explorer is a Java applet which can be used to explore the Mandelbrot Set 
Dragonfly is an online application which allows you to create photo mosaics instantly. 
Iago is an image annotation tool that allows you to label images with "tags" that identify the image. With a clean, efficient and intuitive user-interface, you can annotate large number of images in a very short time. 
At Hiperware, where I worked for approximately an year, I designed and implemented a visual proptotyping tool called Quascade, to enable a user to create independent components and then combine them in a workflow. The workflow gets executed on MP2, a middleware platform installed on computer servers. The middleware allows the servers to communicate with the client as well as with each other. 
Cycad is a CAD tool for visualization and design of bicycles. It can be used to set various parameters of a bicycle and the effect of the settings observed. It has several features such as saving the design in a file, or opening a previously saved file and zoom options. You can even watch an animation of the bicycle in action.
To make it more realistic, there is also an option to place a rider on the bike, and his anatomy modified. This can be used to make a more customized design, based on a person's requirements.
This application was developed for the Mechanical Engineering department at my University to be used for educational purpose. 
A Grid Workflow is critical to grid computing for its ability to creat complex grid computations by connecting different grid jobs logically. Users can easily define and reuse the workflow for their applications that are loosely coupled. I proposed a Grid Workflow Management System (GWMS) to provide the interface for processing a workflow with grid schedulers, e.g., Sun Grid Engine clusters. The client can be a portal, an application or command line. 
mgc is a graphical calculator which runs on a mobile device. A user can enter a mathematical expression (which is then parsed, verified and converted into RPN or Reverse Polish Notation, for ease of computation) and the range between which points are to be plotted. The expression is then sent over to a .NET web service using kSOAP over HTTP which then returns the coordinates to be drawn on the screen.
Some functions:
The Design and Development Project is a compulsory part of the course at my University. For this project, over a period of one month, a team of about 7 people created a robot which could be controlled through a computer. The robot could explore a grid marked by black tape and the configuration discovered was reflected on the GUI of the software. Various algorithms such as the fastest path (from a start node to an end node) and traveling salesman (fastest path through a series of intermediate nodes) were also implemented. I wrote almost all of the software which had a GUI with sound and animation, serial interface, file-handling, and algorithms for the fastest path and traveling salesman problem. 
