Hi, My Name is Paramananda Ponnaiyan. If you google my name there should only be one of me. You should find my linkedin profile and maybe a patent filing.

I have been using computers from the time they just began to become popular. My first computer was a ZX spectrum and I learnt BASIC and wrote my first game. A leapfrog variant.

And so it wasn’t much of a surprise (in hindsight) that my first job would be in computer engineering even though my BTECH degree was in Electrical and Electronics Engg from NIT Calicut.

Since then I have worked on Proprietary Software and Hardware (Cisco), having to learn hand optimized dual pipeline assembly or writing copious C code. Moved on from there to web-application software with Zynga where I tried to get HipHop (PHP to C++ translator) to work on Zynga’s php code with middling success. Spent some time later in a small startup (Wobe) where I grew the India team and finally landed up in the Decacorn hyper growth startup – Gojek.

Having seen software development in all stages of a startup, Seed, stage A-B-C, IPO, well-established business, I have been witness to a variety of ways to develop, maintain and deploy software (and engineers) and I hope some of that shows in these posts.

I can’t say I will be very regular posting here, but I will definitely try to be. I am a lot more regular on twitter/param108 although its mostly a different type of gyaan.