My Bio
Personal Information
- Name: Ramesh Ananthakrishnan
- Sex: Male
- Age: 23
- Date of birth: 06/10/1981
- Marital Status: Unmarried
- Residential Address: 205, II Floor, Vijayakripa Appartments 39, Motilal Street. T.Nagar Chennai Tamil Nadu India 600017
- Mailing Address: Same as above
- Phone Numbers: +919841490272, +9104424338466
- Mail id's: rameshananth(at)gmail.com, rameshananth(at)yahoo.com
Education
- I did my schooling at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Chennai in the CBSE medium. I gradguated from the school in 1999 after clearing the CBSE certifying exam with honours.
- I did my engineering in Crescent Engineering and gradguated from Madras University in 2003 as a honours student. My specialization includes Instrumentation and Control Systems.
Awards Recieved
- I recieved a medal of distinction in the Educational Testing Centre Austrial during my secondary schooling in an english and maths aptitude exam.
- I recieved on consecutive years, the award for being the most outstanding all rounder in school.
- I recieved the National Scholarship Award from the Central Board of Secondary Education India for exemplary performance in the Secondary School Mathematics Examination.
- I recieved the Department of Telecommunications India, Technical Scholarship through all four years of my graduation for excellence in engineering
Work Experience
- Data Acquisition Systems : 6 months
- Tata Consultancy Services : 18 months
I am currently employed in Tata Consultancy Services as an Assistant Systems Engineer
Projects executd at current job
- Automatic Data Synchronization: In this project I had to develop a set of Perl scripts that would keep in synch the US Telecorp's Database and AT&T wireless's proprietary macro cell database. Project responsibilities included development, cost and time estimation, quality control, and client side requirement's gathering. I was also entrusted the responsibility of gathering the defect metrics for the project.
- Win Testing: In this project I had to prepare a test suite for testing AT&T's proprietary application Win and WorldView. Project responsibilities included test suite preparation and execution, and liasing between the test team and the development team.
- Originating Carrier Billing: This is AWS proprietary project to bill carriers for use of AWS networks. Project responsibilities include project management, cost and time estimation, design and development, preparation of test cases and requirements gathering from onsite. Skills include system administration, scripting in Shell and Perl, coding in C++ and website maintanance besides.
Check out the projects link for detailed information about all my projects
SkillSets
- Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris,DOS
- Programming Languages: Perl, C, C++, Linux systems programming (specifically port and data acquisition), Python and Ruby.
- Skills: System administration, Web server and network admin, general troubleshooting.
- Responsibilities: Liason between two teams, design, development and requirements gathering. Analysis and testing.
Languages
- Hindi: Can read, write and speak Hindi quite fluently.
- English: Can read, write and speak English quite fluently.
- Tamil: Can read, write and speak Tamil fluently.
Hobbies
- I write a lot. Technical articles and funny pieces. Check out my blog at abyuthvad for a collection of my writing.
- I also listen to a lot of music.
- I also read a lot. Amongst my favourite authors are Wodehouse, Bill Bryson, Douglas Adams, J.R.R.Tolkien, Mark Twain, Isaac Asimov, Clarke and everything else in between.
- Quizzing and Cricket. Especially slow left arm bowling.