engineering perfection on rails

Niranjan has spent five years putting his degree in mechanical engineering to good use, first as a Consultant at Infosys and then as a Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks, delivering software at Fortune 1000 clients across the globe.

He's spent the last two years helping build a suite of RESTfully integrated Rails applications at one of the world's largest hosting providers.

Niranjan is one of the organisers of RubyConf India 2010, India's first ever RubyConf. He is also a trustee of the Innovation and Technology Trust, the organisation created to support the event.

Niranjan has spoken at numerous conferences, most recently RubyConf 2011 in New Orleans.

Srushti spent five years of his life learning the ins and outs of a big software services company as a Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He felt he could do better and now he is.

Srushti is the lead developer on the Goldberg project and author of XStream.net, the .Net implementation of Joe Walnes' XStream project as well as Azazel, an attempt to build a newer, better Launchy.

He claims to be on the brink of inventing psychohistory, but, we don't believe him.

Aakash obtained his degree in Mechanical Engineering with the intention of doing research in the field of refrigeration and air conditioning, only to discover that his true passion lay in programming.

He then spent the next few years at a Fortune 500 company doing application migration, a 100,000 employee services giant doing ERP development and a hot local search startup doing app dev, before deciding it was time to do things his way and joining C42 Engineering.

His application development is driven by one motto - "Abstraction is the key."

Sidu has been writing code since he was six, starting with Logo back in the days when the 80386 was pretty l33t.

He started working with Ruby and Rails in 2006 when he co-founded Activ Mobs (the core of which was a Rails application) with a friend. Since then he has done a bunch of Ruby and Rails work, both open-source as well as commercial, the latter as a Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a committer on projects like Wrest and Goldberg and has contributed features to the RSpec project.

He is a founder and moderator of the BangaloreRUG, one of the largest and most active Ruby lists in India. He also conceived and helped organise both DevCamp India as well as RubyConf India and has presented at several conferences including RubyConf India and RubyConf US in New Orleans.

He writes occasionally, and his blog is one of approximately three hundred ruby related blogs indexed by Rubylicious.

Jasim started programming at twelve, working with his dad to write accounting and inventory applications in CA-Clipper. He went on to independently build business applications for local companies and was juggling time among twenty-odd clients by the time he turned eighteen.

After studying engineering in CS, he worked with a startup in the wireless telecom domain where he built applications that powered some of India's top telcos.

Jasim blogs occasionaly and contributes to open-source.

Aninda graduated from BIT Mesra, with a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering which he traded in favor of a life in programming. He started his career in HP where he spent 4 years learning how not to build software on the .NET platform (which he still loves).

He delved into the world of startups where he was able to make a leap of faith into the world of TDD, REST, MVC, DRY, YAGNI, Git, ROR and other abbreviated coolness. He fell in love with software again and gravitated to a deep appreciation of agile philosophies and vows not to leave home without it.

Aninda is passionate about building elegant working software and wanted to work with people who are too, when C42 answered his call. Here he plans to actively contribute back to open source, build value and live a little on the edge.

Tejas has been writing code since he was a kid, although most of the apps he wrote involved throwing pies at images of his principal.

Tejas accidently crashed Windows on his machine in the early 2000s, and had to install Linux on it. He has been an ardent supporter of Open Source Software ever since. Tejas has been a contributor to the Fedora and KDE projects, implementing the Bonjour protocol for Kopete. You can find more of his hacks on his Github Page. Tejas has also been an organizer of multiple popular Open Source Conferences.

After graduating in Computer Science from PESIT, Tejas spent two years at ThoughtWorks, where he was on a team that wrote large scale C# apps. His passion has always been in Desktop app, and bridging the gap between online apps and the Desktop.

Steven spent the last decade working for DRW Trading, ThoughtWorks, Adxstudio, The Canadian Department of National Defence, THE MAN, and some other people. Also himself. Not in that order. Whatever, you don't care -- he's obviously just an ineffective old man. He's last on this page, isn't he?

Steven will drink you under the table at the conference of your choosing.

Akshay started programming in the usual Indian way with Borland Turbo C++ and Visual Basic in high-school, but then quickly moved to Ruby when he discovered _why's poignant guide. Since then, he has hacked a fair bit of Ruby, been a part of the Google Summer of Code 2011 and contributed to GNOME.

He's the youngest recruit and deservedly last on the page .

Asif spent the past two years working at a fast-growing wireless telecom startup where he picked up Ruby and helped build the systems that power India's largest GPRS-based subscription service. Fairly burned by his own code, he's currently discovering first-hand at C42 how and why pair-programming, Agile and all that jazz actually make better software.

He also tanks up on arbitrary knowledge for using it to save the world on D-Day.

Nivedita is a final year engineering student working with C42 as an intern. She developed an interest in programming when doing a school project in C++. Since then she has been trying her hands at various languages, mostly C++ and PHP.

After joining C42 she was introduced to ruby and rails. She is still grasping the awesomeness of this world and hopes to contribute something significant to it soon.

Smit is working as a intern at C42, while he completes the final semester of his engineering course. He used to be a stereotypical disinterested college programmer until he became a part of the KDE community and things changed for him.

He now contributes to the NEPOMUK project and was also a part of the Google Summer of Code program in 2011.

His passion lies in becoming a master craftsman at art of making software.

Anu’s association with C42 started as a fortuitous meeting with us during a visit to India, while she was still nostalgic of her days in ThoughtWorks. After spending a couple of weeks in our office in Bangalore, she almost moved back to India to work with us, but eventually decided she was taking C42 with her to the US.

Anu has provided Experience Design consulting to companies like Expedia, HP, Bloomberg, Eyefinity, RadioShack, HSBC, AAA, Citibank, The Hartford, CCC, Pfizer, and Siebel amongst others.

She leads Experience Design at C42, and is as passionately committed to creating empathic engineering teams as she is to designing empathic products.

Jithu believes that speaking in third person makes him sound like a Roman emperor. And that is weird. But what's weirder is him roaming around in a mask, sneaking up on people, whispering "I'm an idea" and freaking them out. You are not safe either. He's known for breaking the fourth wall at times.

He writes occasionally, likes comics, graphic novels and has taken a renewed interest in coding thanks to ruby. And with an awesome team to work with, he believes this is his calling.

For better or for worse, he's signed up for this chaotic but wonderful voyage and there is no looking back. Like the wise man said, "Excelsior!"

Well, here's a suit-in-disguise. A self-confessed number-cruncher who, simply put, will keep the engine running smoothly.

In his earlier avatars, he's been a programmer on the AS400, a business analyst and a marketing eagle. He's the goto guy for everything operations related and now we wonder how we ever got by without him.

He also happens to be the only true blue vegetarian and teetotaler on the team - black sheep!"

Timothy has been vaguely passionate about computers ever since he got all the way through Prince of Persia when he was five. This grew into a legitimate love for the field after he crashed his Windows box in 2007 and managed a fragile triple-boot system that included a patched version of OS X.

While he was slacking off from doing his mostly-meaningless Computer Science degree, he discovered an interest for coding, and there was no looking back.

Having graduated recently, he's eager to put in his 10,000 hours and finally get some real-world experience.

Srihari has loved telling computers what to do since he was 14. He's a FOSS enthusiast and a GNOME lover and hacker. He contributes to The Gimp and Guake.

The youngest on the team, he likes saying 'Good Morning' and loves classical music. One day, he will have a company of his own that will shake the world's taste of software.

Neha does not like talking in third person about her but for the record she loves computing and wondering. Wandering too. She has been making people jealous since 2006 by telling them she studies/studied at Goa. As an aftermath of graduation, she is a closet hippie. She is also a recovering Java programmer with brief alliances to Amazon and Oracle. But after writing the hippie song, she decided to get rid of the cubicle and find the meaning of life. It is 42, silly.