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My name is Arun. I'm glad that you're here.
I am a programmer, a budding artist and an aspiring thought leader in the space where those two intersect.
The rush and exhilaration experienced after solving a particularly difficult C programming problem with I/O registers for one of my first college projects, made an indelible impression on my mind and that's when I realised that I had fallen in love with coding. This was many years ago, an entirely different era, well before the Internet's ubiquity.
I've been fortunate to have made a career in software as hoped for two decades ago. In the meanhile, I've played with many a programming language, multiple technology stacks and a variety of platforms. Looking back, everything's been evolving and in a state of flux, with the exception of the sheer joy arising out of solving problems and creating stuff out of thin air!
Five years ago, as a revival of another childhood hobby, I started painting. To limit the area of focus from an infinitude of alternatives, I chose to work on Kerala style mural paintings. That's where I built skills for the most part, however, I have observed an unmistakable mark of spillage of it into other artistic styles as well. I wouldn't call myself a professional as yet, but I have made good progress through diligent effort.
After spending considerable time and energy in these two seemingly disparate domains viz. software and art, I've started observing a surprising lot of commonalities and mutual enforcements between these two. My intuition tells me that I've barely scratched the surface. Going forward, that's an area that I wish to study and think about in-depth.
This website contains notes on software, github links to my hobby projects, imgur links to my art works and some other miscellaneous observations distilled out of experience. Do take a look.
Thanks for stopping by!
Disclaimer: I am employed by HCL Software where we build test automation products under the HCL and IBM brands. Just to clarify and keep things separate, let me reiterate that this is my personal website. So, the opinions and interests expressed here are my own and don't necessarily represent HCL or IBM's positions, strategies or views.