Category: Journal
Consists of site updates and the various events happening in my life.
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Website migrated to WordPress
After running this website on Drupal 7 for over a decade, I’ve now migrated it to WordPress. This change was prompted by the official end-of-life for Drupal 7 in January of this year. I considered upgrading to Drupal 10, but ultimately chose WordPress for several reasons: Popularity and Ecosystem: WordPress is the most widely used…
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Personal Update
After living in London and working at Meta for four years, I’ve relocated back to India earlier this month to reunite with my wife and daughter, who moved back about a year ago. There was a lot of contemplation after our third year in London about whether we should settle down there. But considering our…
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Relocation to London
About two years back, I relocated to London with my family. It was not something really pre-planned. I was looking for job opportunities in late 2020 and a recruiter from Meta (then Facebook) reached out to me. I had managed to close a couple of other big tech job offers and was almost sure to…
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Roopkund Trek – An unforgettable adventure!
Two years back, my wife and I did the “Valley Of Flowers” trek in Uttarakhand. While the “Valley Of Flowers” trek covered considerable distance (65 km in 4-5 days), it was pretty convenient as we always got to sleep in tents and never had to face the wrath of nature. The Roopkund trek, however, was…
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It’s a girl!
I am pleased to announce that we have been blessed with a baby girl on Sep 26, 2014 5:57 P.M weighing 2.76 kg. I had strongly desired for a girl and this is like a dream come true. We decided to name her “Tanvi”. Words can’t describe my joy :).
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A decade since I started my career!
Today marks the tenth anniversary of starting my career. Exactly ten years back, on June 14 2004, I, along with few of my schoolmates joined Infosys Bangalore for undergoing training. Ten years later, I am again working in Bangalore! It has been a long time since my initial days in Bangalore. A very eventful journey…
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The Theeka Pan Experience
Another Sunday evening. With my wife not at home, I feel bored and decide to go to office and finish some pending work. After work, I go to a restaurant and have two delicious parathas. As I begin to walk home, I pass a paan shop where I had a meetha (sweet) paan the other…
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A Month At Lexity And Relocation To Bangalore
This post comes in a little late. I’ve recently joined Lexity, a startup with headquarters in Mountain View and branch office in Bangalore. Lexity is an E-commerce company which mainly designs products for small businesses with online stores, to increase their traffic and sales. Work and environment have been pretty good at Lexity. I was…
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Now An Official Debian Maintainer
Today, my GPG key has been added to the Debian GNU/Linux keyring maintainers package, thereby converting me from a sponsored Debian maintainer to an official Debian maintainer. A little history about this. My involvement with Debian packaging started while working on Synovel CollabSuite. The Darwin calendarserver which we were using as part of the product…
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And Rahul turns 30!
What an eventful decade this has been – Graduation, Work, Friendships, Break-Ups and Marriage. With all this experience, I do hope I’ve become wiser :). Unlike every time when I’m generally not very enthusiastic about celebrating my birthday, this time I went with my family to a farm and spent the day there. Later, I…