Karthik Sankar
Student at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
India
Summary :
I am currently pursuing my Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, where I am expected to graduate in June 2010.
My professional interests lie in Algorithms and Data Structures, Designing and Management.
I worked as a Summer Employee in the Technology Division of Goldman Sachs Investment Bank, Bangalore.
I am the Campus Ambassador for Sun Microsystems, and my job responsibilities are to evangelize Sun technologies and other open source technologies to the student community.
I am a disciple of violin maestro Padmashri (late) Dr. Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, and I have been performing various concerts.
Specialties :
Data Structures and Algorithms, Web Designing, 2D Designing, C, C++, Java, PHP, MySQL, XQuery
Experience
Campus Ambassador
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 - January 2010 (1 year 5 months)
The responsibility involves learning all about the latest Sun open-source technologies and sharing that knowledge with fellow students. This includes activities such as starting a Sun user group on campus, demonstrating Sun technology to fellow students, promoting Sun events and contests.
Summer Employee
Goldman Sachs
(Public Company; GS; Investment Banking industry)
May 2009 - July 2009 (3 months)
Worked as an Analyst Developer, in the Technology Division.
Developed web-based software to efficiently query huge XML databases and display results for further analysis.
Worked on the Java back-end code to analyze equity data from various trading systems and run surveillances on them.
WebSites
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More About Me
The Eskay Factor is a blend of humour, work, musical journey, games, academic pursuits and loads of fun, converging to form Eskay, the name by which I am affectionately called.
I’m Karthik Sankar, a young 20 year old Indian living in two worlds, the real world and the virtual one.
DISCOVERING ESKAY:
The real world identifies me as a final year undergraduate, studying Computer Science at National Institute of Technology, Trichy. I reside in Thanjavur, the temple city in Tamil Nadu. But I have two other residences, the hostel and the computer lab.
The virtual world traces me through my blogs, website, email and other digital means. This is where strings of data from my brain concatenate and transform into keystrokes which are then shared across the network for the world to have a glimpse of Eskay.
MY PASSIONS:
Among my various passions, music features first. I am a violinist, disciple of violin maestro Padmashri (late) Dr. Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan. I have been performing various concerts in South India for the past few years.
Teaching is one of my passions. I love teaching students, explaining concepts, quoting analogies and creating interest in the topic I am talking about. I have conducted various seminars for school students in Trichy and Madurai. I also organize workshops and conduct classes for my fellow students in my college.
I don’t know from when I started watching movies frequently, but now I have become a movie freak. Watching movies has become a habit. One movie per day, especially during semesters. And I don’t run out of movies either!!..
Give me a Jeffrey Archer book and a chair to sit, and I would transport myself into a new world of mine. I read books by Sheldon, Ludlum, Archer, and many others. But now I am shifting my focus to articles on computers, Indian economy, technology, etc.
And the most important of all, computers. And what do I do with it ? — blogging, designing, programming, browsing, gaming, chatting… I spend most of my time with my laptop. And when it comes to screwing up my laptop, be it in windows or linux or solaris … I love it .. ( as long as I am sure that I can fix it )
