Hello everyone, I don't know if I am the only not technical profile here, but here is the story if anyone wants to hear it.
I have a diploma in Management and Finance, but really passionate with IT and science in general. Today I managed to come up with an intermediate solution for my background - I work with business applications, doing the requirements, planning etc. But this doesn't satisfy my need of being useful for the society. So I have decided to learn Python and enhance my SQL knowledge - so that I can communicate with the people who are basically working with it. And I see a lot more coming because I want to work on subjects as Business Intelligence and Big Data. And working on project with intelligence is like the highest and the most demanding objective I can set for myself - after all reaching for stars is what made us discover galaxies! Today my thirst of being useful is at its peak, so I'm reading and watching all the materials about NuPIC (which I found while surfing github) I am willing (and i hope I will be able to) provide some non-dev contribution to the project if there is such need! Best regards! Katerina 2015-04-13 8:16 GMT+02:00 Chandan Maruthi <[email protected]>: > Hey People, > Here you go. > > I have always liked the idea of being able to create and serve a need. I > did my bachelors in Manufacturing Science in India. As the possibility of > creating something in the manufacturing world with limited resources seemed > remote, I turned to software. I did a diploma in software from NIIT > [National Institute of Information Technology] and then a Masters from BITS > PILANI in coputer science again India. During that time I joined Wipro one > of the top employers in the country in 2000. And over 6 years at Wipro I > worked on several technologies including C#, ASP.net, XML, SOA, Web > services, several Data bases. Most of this work was done for very large > companies and were all enterprise business systems. > > In 2007 I left Wipro to start work on a startup, My first interest was > robotics ad intelligence however there were just too many missing pieces to > do anything i felt comfortable with. After exploring a few concepts . I > co-founded a startup called Storrz. Storrz was an e-commerce marketplace > for small and mid size business to be able to setup store and reach > customer quickly. Storrz was built on the technology i knew, Asp.net, > windows 2000 server, sql, ajax etc. We tested the platform for 100K stores > and a several million products and it stood well . We did reasonably well > as a startup quickly with over live 120 stores , we had customer's who had > purchased up to 30 time within a few months on the platform. We were > covered on Mashable here in the US and raised a few angel rounds of > investment. In 2009 when the markets crashed I had to move on . I joined a > data company and built a SaaS financial computation product for incentive > management , The product was based on Hadoop, Python, Java, LifeRay and > CouchDB. We had built one of the leading incentive engines for indirect > channels in the industry and won some pretty awesome deals. > > I had read On Intelligence several years ago and have been hooked since. > Over the last few months i have learnt Python, Django, Redis and other > technologies while working on Walnut. I am interested in building some > very interesting products that show intelligence. And excited to meet other > folks that share similar interests in the Nupic community > > Regards > Chandan Maruthi > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:21 PM, James Jenner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Peoples, >> >> I've been a lurker here for about a year. I joined after watching a YOW >> keynote presentation by Jeff Hawkings in Brisbane, Australia (Dec. 2013). >> >> I've always planned on getting involved, unfortunately both work and some >> external projects have kept me busy. My intention is to get involved when I >> finish my current project. >> >> My background is quite varied, though mainly a tad boring as my >> professional career has been focused on business software. >> >> I started in the late 80s working for CCH using various languages, mainly >> Cobol, C, C++, Clipper (a DBV derivative). >> >> Most of the 90s was spent working in Progress for an ERP solution called >> MFG/PRO. During this time I also did some C/C++ work, mainly for handhelds >> and also introduced myself to Java (with some limited HTML work). >> >> Early 00s I worked on quite a few different technologies. Some Progress, >> implemented YModem in Java, developed various touch UIs using Java >> (including generic MJPeg adaptors, Onewire, etc) some C++ based mobile >> solutions and media streaming. >> >> Mid to late 00s I switched roles and companies and became an Architect, >> so my hands on day to day work in programming ceased. However in my own >> time I continued to work in Java (mainly touch screens). >> >> In the 10s I went to Uni to do a Masters in IT. I focused on Interaction >> Design and did a number of major and minor projects. This being the lead >> author on a paper (IEEE published) around cross platform multi-touch >> interfaces interacting simultaneously with multiple UAVs. This involved a >> proof of concept that I wrote mainly HTML5, CSS3 and node.js. I also did >> some PHP work, mainly importing PPTx files into Drupal. >> >> Lately I've been working on a node.js driven HTML5 front end around 10 >> foot interfaces to visualise KPI information (called Vor). >> >> When I finish Vor I plan to do some work in the area of robotics, >> specifically autonomous robots. Areas that interest me is collaboration, >> swarms and object recognition. I'm especially interested in object >> relations and attributes as an approach to machine intelligence and action >> determination for object recognition (apologies if my terms are off, I'm >> still new to this field). I'm very interested in robotic assistance for >> people with limited mobility. >> >> So I expect that I will not be active in this community until the later >> half of this year. >> >> Cheers, >> James Jenner >> >> +61 402 203 344 >> [email protected] >> >> On 12 April 2015 at 04:08, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm seeing many new faces in our community, and I keep wondering about >>> the skill sets you folks have. Does anyone want to describe their >>> technical programming prowess? Here is your chance to brag about your >>> history. I'll go first ;)... >>> >>> >>> I started seriously programming around 2002 in PHP and FORTRAN77, >>> believe it or not. I had taken no college classes at all at the time, >>> but I was an analyst at a company that was doing lots of complex >>> military defense simulations in FORTRAN. I was doing PHP as a hobby >>> and learning relational databases in MySQL (when it was free as in >>> beer). >>> >>> I finally went to school and learned Java while I was working on Java >>> wrappers to our FORTRAN applications so scientists, engineers, and >>> pilots could actually use the simulations without intense technical >>> help. This involved a lot of Swing GUI work, so I started getting more >>> into front-end technology at that time. >>> >>> I quit my job and moved to St. Louis to work as a freelance software >>> contractor, landing almost entirely Java jobs for several years, but >>> getting a breadth of experience in some diverse fields, but always >>> supporting scientific research in some way. Jobs working for banks are >>> boring. ;) >>> >>> Then I got into Groovy, a functional and dynamically typed JVM >>> language with very tight integration with Java. This really piqued my >>> interested in functional programming, and I got involved in the Lambda >>> Lounge group that was just starting up [1]. We were mostly disgruntled >>> Java programmers who wanted to work in more interesting language >>> paradigms, and I believe we changed the programming landscape in St. >>> Louis to be much more polyglot. >>> >>> Somehow I networked with the right people and got a job for G2One, a >>> startup that included the founders of the Groovy language and the >>> Grails web framework. At this time, I was working a bit on Grails >>> itself, and implementing a GUI plugin that integrated Javascript as a >>> collection of server-side pages, so backend programmers didn't have to >>> mess around with the JS (this was before Javascript was considered a >>> "serious" programming language to most people). >>> >>> Then SpringSource bought G2One (I was a contractor, so I didn't get a >>> payoff), and I was laid off after 6 months. Eventually VMWare bought >>> SpringSource, Pivotal took over all the Groovy Grails stuff, and then >>> dropped it all and it moved to the Apache Foundation. Anyway I still >>> have a good relationship with all the Groovy/Grails folks, and I still >>> have a deep-seeded love for the elegant Groovy language. >>> >>> During my time working on GrailsUI (the Grails Javascript plugin), I >>> worked extensively with YUI, the Yahoo! User Interface Javascript >>> library. So I emailed the YUI time a bit and got to know them, which >>> was great because David Glass helped me get a job at Yahoo! and I >>> moved my entire family from St. Louis to Cupertino. >>> >>> I worked at Yahoo! for 2 years maintaining and building Javascript >>> frameworks. I learned a lot about Javascript, and that helped me get a >>> job as a Frontend Engineer at Numenta. When Numenta approached me, I >>> was really surprised, because I'd been a follower for a long time >>> (since reading On Intelligence), and I had always dreamed of working >>> on something I thought was so important. >>> >>> So I went from F2E at Numenta to Manager of Web Services, helping >>> build out REST APIs and such. Then when Numenta got the open source >>> bug, I jumped at the chance to help make open source NuPIC a reality. >>> And here I am. :) >>> >>> [1] http://lambdalounge.org/ >>> >>> Who's next? >>> >>> --------- >>> Matt Taylor >>> OS Community Flag-Bearer >>> Numenta >>> >>> >> > -- Katerina Muradyan 06 50 20 13 71 [email protected]
