About

Hi – My name is Chandra. Avid coffee consumer. Highly opinionated developer. Technologist, love to learn and teach technology, student of spiritualism, dabble in photography with my DSLR camera, love everything about Space, a Sci-Fi geek, aspire to learn playing a guitar.

A confirmed #Saganist, I look up to and follow my dad as well as the late Carl Sagan as a human role models for myself. I am deeply grateful to my mom who pushed me towards technology and programming at a very early age, she reviewed my first program (and helped me create my line number scheme for GW BASIC)!

I enjoy reading content by Chinmaya Mission (spiritual Hindu), Immanuel Kant (philosophy), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (aviation and philosophy) and Edsger W. Dijkstra (computer science).

Motto: docendo discimus

  • Smalltalk programmer working in the Java world.
  • Java developer since 1998.
  • Java Champion.
  • JUG Leader @ NYJavaSIG (largest JUG in North America).
  • Organizer/speaker/volunteer at NYJavaSIG.
  • Co-chair of NYJavaSIG HOW (NYJavaSIG Hands-on-workshops).
  • Past speaker at Oracle Code One, QCon New York, NYJavaSIG, Devnexus, OracleCode New York, ACGNJ JUG, GIDS India etc.

All these when I have time away from my family, especially my twin daughters.

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