About Me!

The first thing, I'd like to share about myself is that I am a mother of two adorable kids aged 5 and 3. For the last six years or so, they are all I have been doing. For the duration of these years my interests have mostly been frequenting babycenter.com, reading books on parenting, researching home remedies for cold and cough and articles on productive parenting.

Before this, I worked for three years in a bank as a Client Relationship Expert. My daily tasks included interacting with customers and basically managing their portfolios with the bank. It was a very people-oriented job and I think meeting new people almost on a daily basis was one of the most exciting things about this job.Coming from a Computer Science background, this was perhaps one of the reasons I chose to work for a bank.

Going back even more, I graduated with a major of Computer Science and two minors in Mathematics and Economics. My relationship with computer science has been bitter sweet. The first time I took up studying computer science was during my junior year in high school. I found everything extremely difficult and I ended up dropping out just one week before my finals. I am happy to see how things have progressed from then to now. It is so exciting to see so many young kids engage in programming and technology.

Anyhow, I enrolled in my undergrad with an Economics major. CS 101 was the course that made me fall in love with programming and computer science once more. We had an amazing teacher and everything was taught so methodically. Things actually made sense. ;-) Given this, I still had to repeat my first programming course (C++) at least twice before I could manage a decent grade. Since then I thoroughly enjoyed my entire experience of learning about computer science and exciting programming languages like Java and C++. I developed an interest in graphics, since it combined my interest in mathematics with programming. My senior year project (which I am extremely proud of) was detecting motion across picture frames (talking head videos) and rendering frames across network, based on the motion calculations.

Coming back to the present, I am really glad I am learning to code once more. Even though I have forgotten most of what I learnt all these many years ago, it is a truly amazing experience to learn everything a new. There was no web development taught back in the early years of 2000s, so everything I am learning as part of this program is all very exciting and new.