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Virgo
I am actually an introvert, lazy but surprisingly a good cook.
Kakorrhaphiophobia – The fear of failure.
I believe in this Latin word, Excelsior! Faster, higher, stronger, not to stop at any point. The greatest achievement is yet to come.
August 2014. When we released QuickHeal antivirus on a Sunday night.
Sep 2013. When I went into a tiny depression phase.
Mark Russinovich.
Tyler Durden.
Deadpool.
Chuck Palahniuk, Harold Robins , Khaled Hoissaini, Vikram Chandra.
Fight club, American Psycho, A stone for Danny Fisher, One day, Perks of being a wallflower.
Fight club.
The Prestige, Shutter Island, Definitely Maybe, Dark knight trilogy, Inception.
Ability to read people’s mind.
I go to seek a great perhaps.
Spent my childhood on the beaches and my silver years will be spent there. For adolescent and adult life, let the time take me where I am destined to be.
Ability to sing perhaps.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Don’t need a specific time or the place, but if I can choose one, it would be my favorite riverside place when in Goa where the sea meets the river, soothing.
Silence when I am thinking or writing and music when I am on the road & driving.
Be spontaneous, live in the moment.
Not really. Writing is a flow of thoughts; it comes out, regardless of anything.
Wiki pages on Aircraft crashes.
Go out, travel, explore, meet people, socialize, there are stories out there almost everywhere and in everyone.
I am a Certified Ethical Hacker (white hat) and I work for the US-based IT company TIBCO
Software inc. as a Member of Technical Staff (Product Security). I was previously working for India’s
very own Anti-Virus Company Quick Heal and US Cloud Security provider Software Firm Qualys.
Having born and brought up in Goa, I did my Schooling in St. Anthony’s and St. Xavier’s college
Mapusa, North Goa and later completed my bachelorette in Engineering from PCCE, South Goa.
I come from the family of teachers, writers, and librarians and grew up reading novels of all the genres.
The reading-writing skills got inculcated in me right from my early childhood, where I spent my summer vacations lost in the stories of people visiting Morjim beach and interacting with the characters from the books in my Grandpa’s Library.
The hacking interest came much later, having witnessed an Orkut community of Late Dr. APJ Abdul
Kalam getting hacked by some hackers from the neighboring country. It is during my time with Quick Heal
that I came across an unknown hacker while fidgeting with the viruses and thus began this tiny blog post of I’m
S0 Hacked which is now a novel.
When I am not writing or hacking, I cook, hit the gym and love to give a quirky social media commentary on all kinds of social issues.
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Achievements:
- Created India’s very own cyber thriller series with 2 books released and successful.- Won the writing contest organised by Half Baked Beans, which led to co-publishing of a novella on daily quirks titled STONED: The Untold Story of Co-weed-20 under their banner.
- He has worked for Quick Heal antivirus where he was member of team that developed anti-ransomware tool.
- He has won value awards for 2 consecutive years while working on securing one of the crucial data softwares that propelled Mercedes AMG formula one team on their road to consecutive championships.
- He has also given motivational talks through various colleges/clubs and universities such as Rotaract, AttainU, Moderns college etc.
