Friends

pirama

Project teammate, one of the top scoring students (GATE 2005 AIR 2), really good at algorithms and programming, (useless to try and find what he is not good at actually). Great team man. Among the top 3 high scorers of my department. Currently heading to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for a PhD in Compiler technology ( passing an opportunity to work for Oracle India)

aruna

Project teammate, really interested in algorithms, data structures and programming. Fighting spirit. Lived in the college hostel, supporting himself through intercollege contests. When he goes home in the holidays, his whole block would miss his antics. Got a job at HCL India, Trilogy India (very prestigious), currently working for Microsoft, Hyderabad in the CRM team

ajay & nirmal

Brothers, close friends right from beginning of college. Ajay is the elder, a very hard working, exciting things happen when he is around. nirmal his brother is more relaxed and cool, but can produce immense results. In the first year we studied different foreign languages. I sat in Japanese, nirmal studied french(as did aruna), and ajay learnt german. Ajay became expert in network security in the final year of college. Nirmal is more of an all-rounder. Ajay works for IBM India, nirmal is a consultant for Tata Consultancy Services(first Indian billion $ org)

bala

Good friend from college. Chased his dream, and made it come true. Algorithms expert. Missed an opportunity to work for Trilogy India, went to work in ImpulseSoft Bangalore (along with friend amrit). Now works for Microsoft. Now dreams of earning an MBA at the reputed IIM ( - sure to happen in a couple of years)

Several of my friends are members of the community called orkut. You can visit my friends by looking for me at orkut. My username there is keerthi_ram