Unleashing Identity

I am Chandni Verma, a Senior Software Development Engineer, working as a Chief Engineer for Let's Code_ - a community initiative and chilling and intellectually stimulating spot for Software Engineers and programmers. I live in Bangalore, India. I graduated as an Engineer from Dr. M.C. Saxena College of Engineering and Technology affiliated to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India, in the year 2010 with specialisation in Computer Science and Engineering and have 11 years of Software Design and Engineering experience. My past engineering affiliations have been ITC-SAES, IBM, Rapyuta Robotics, Perpule and OYO Rooms(or Oravel Stays Pvt. Ltd.).

In 2011, I completed Software Development internship in GNOME Outreach Programme for Women Internships where I worked on Empathy, the default IM/VoIP client on GNOME hacking into the underlying Telepathy communications service of the desktop, at times.

After playing the roles of an ex-member of GNOME Foundation and GNOME.Asia committee, I worked as a Team Leader for Applied R&D at I.T. Centre of Society for the Advancement of Environmental Sciences where my focus was on Bio-metric software and creating Data Generation tools with my language of preference being Java.

In May 2015, I joined IBM India Pvt. Ltd. as a Software Engineer in the Linux Technology Center. Here I work on Linux tools in the Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) team and ensure they work correctly and compliantly on IBM PowerPC Architecture. Here I work mostly on C++ tools like lshw and lsvpd, diagnostic tools and some tools written in C like hwinfo and powerpc-utils.

Since November 2018, I moved to Tokyo, Japan, where I develop robotics systems in the Robotics Science and Systems team for Rapyuta Robotics - a company where our interests align for empowering lives with connected machines! Language issues persist in Japan, and without any inclination to learn them, I returned to India. Backend engineering at Perpule.com was an exciting opportunity and I grabbed it with both hands! After this work-stint at Tokyo, I have been focussing on Backend engineering using Java stack to build worldly solutions to ease lifestyle and create possibilities that save time and efforts for product users.

I am fond of competitive sport programming (mostly in Java and C++) and have a long history of participation on sites like codechef.com, spoj.com,topcoder.com, hackerearth.com, codeforces.com. My username on most of the sites is chandniverma.

Hobbies: Researching and contributing to open source projects, Algorithm contests, solving riddles, following technology trends and trying to apply the principles of Software Engineering to make as many things in the unorganised-sector digital (and hence organised) as possible. Think AUTOMATION EVERYWHERE!

I can speak Java, C and C++ fairly well.

I like outdoor sports. I can swim, ride a horse and can drive cars @90kmph. I also cook at times ( sometimes some of these things are piped into my non-technical blog ) but I'd rather offload that job to a robot.

I have travelled to many cities within India and 3 countries across globe where I inhabited 2 - India and Japan - for longer duration. Wherever I went, I explored the local culture, compared the habits and gauged their growth while learning what they do differently than what we do in India!

I am a Software Engineer with expertise over a variety of technologies, frameworks and programming languages. I like coding efficient solutions to real world problems and am always on a lookout for a platform where I get a chance to exploit my extreme interest in the field of computing.

Stay tuned with my latest works by following my technical blog.