Abhijeet Maharana

I am Abhijeet Maharana from Orissa, India; currently staying at Mumbai. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and work as a Software Developer in the IT industry. My interest in computers dates back to the time when I was in 5th std.. “Computer” was not a household name back then. But luckily, we had a computer period in school which consisted of Space Commanders and Paratroopers. I absolutely loved the fabulous games and the one with highest scores used to become a celebrity for a day. These games caught my imagination and I was hooked. I am still an avid gamer; although now I play select titles at the “I can win” mode. In 6th std., I moved to Sainik school, Bhubaneshwar where we had computers from 8th std.. I found it difficult to subscribe to the idea and approached the computer teacher who agreed to allow me into his lab on the condition that I won’t touch anything. That was more than I could have asked for. Although I cannot say for sure, I think we had BBC Micro computers there with the BASIC programming language. I shifted to Mumbai in 7th std..

My daily efforts are directed at understanding more of this vast subject and I continue discovering new things every day. I have worked on .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 8i and MySQL 5.x. I also had a chance to dabble with GWBasic and DBase III+ in school. In my free time, I like tinkering with C, Java and Linux. I pass on, whatever little I have understood, to others by conducting workshops on OpenGL, C/C++, VB, Java and Linux whenever feasible.

My interests, apart from computers, keep changing. Sometimes its sports. Sometimes movies. I use this blog to make note of the things I discover. Here you will also find information on the projects I have worked on and the workshops & seminars I have conducted so far.

I would love to hear from you:
mail at abhijeetmaharana dot com
abhijeet dot maharana at gmail dot com