The story of my life

Although I'm ethnically Mangalorean, I've never visited my ancestral homeland. Following a brief sojourn as a sea-faring toddler I grew up in the metropolitan city of Karachi: a concrete jungle, bounded on the South by the Arabian sea, with a dangerously turbulent political climate that is almost redeemed by the perennial balmy weather and the delectable food available there in abundance.

My family moved to Canada in the summer of 1996 and settled in Toronto, where I attended high school. Next I enrolled in the Computer Science program at the University of Waterloo in Southern Ontario and spent 6 wonderful years there, alternating between working at co-op placements and studying on campus. Three years after I began attending UW, my sister showed up there as well, choosing to live in the same dorm as I had.

Upon graduating from university I moved to Silicon Valley to work as a Software Engineer for VMware, where I spent the next 4 years.