In my “day job” I manage YottaDB which is an industrial strength, enterprise scale, hierarchical key-value transaction processing database engine and application development platform. The code base is the database of record for some of the world's largest real time core banking systems in daily production use, as well as large scale electronic health record systems, including the nation-scale Hakeem system.
I am interested in all things technical, but mostly technology as it relates to computers and software, and especially free & open source software (FOSS), databases, operating systems (I first used UNIX in 1981; GNU/Linux has been my computing platform since 1999), security and algorithms. I am passionate about highly robust systems which must continue to be available in the face of failure - even their own flaws - and about efficiency, which in practice often translates into performance and benchmarking.
I spent many years of my early career in the electronics test and measurement industry, including a stint as the software lead for an instrument used to test the radio altimeters of two widely used commercial jets, and another stint as the engineering manager of a company whose software included the first Fast Fourier Transform on a PC.
Outside of my technical interests, I am an elected (Democratic) Supervisor of Tredyffrin Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania. I am active in getting my fellow South Asian Americans to be engaged politically, and to vote our progressive values. I have developed software to tag voters based on their names.
My other interests are food - especially locally grown without the use of artificial chemicals, spicy food (I love bhut jolokia), beer (especially a good gueuze or tripel), coffee and chocolate; freedom - as in free speech and free society; and travel.
I can be reached at bhaskar at bhaskars dot com.
