About
Thanks for stopping by. I started blogging in 1998 when blogging was unheard off. For the last few years I’ve been working as an an IT guy for a bioinformatics company which most of you wouldn’t have heard off. When I’m not working, I spend time researching and prototyping which in the good old days would have been called “hacking“.
My field of interest & research has changed many times over the years, some of the interesting non-work related projects I’ve worked on in the past are listed here….
- 2009: pubsubhubbub-java is a publisher-client implmenetation in java which I wrote to play with the newly lauched pubsubhubbub protocol
- 2009: Blackbox search engine testing tool was released after Bing launch to understand how good is the basic search infrastructure which runs Bing.
- 2008: Webtrace.info was built while playing with PHP and DNS protocols. Some of the DNS crawling code on that website was written in pure PHP. I didn’t believe it was possible until it was done. The site also crawls BGP route databases to gather BPG peer statistics.
- 2008: Scalability Blog was started to document my experiences with various scalability issues around web applications. The focus recently has shifted to cloud computing which seems to be hot topic now a days
- 2007: Flagthis was an attempt to create a self-destructing online bookmark engine. The idea is nice and could be unique, but not feature rich or stable. This site has gone through many transitions. Starting with running from my home network, it moved to EC2 / simpleDB for experimentation
- 2006: Zoppr – was an attempt to understand the “digg” phenominon. It was a crowd sourced new engine like digg focusing on asian-indian news
- 2005: Blogofy – A News crawler and scoring engine to search and escalate important realtime events to the top of the page. This engine was married to a Bayesian filtering engine to find stories wanted. Was interesting while it lasted and learnt a lot from the experiment
- 2001: Security –
- Used to run a security website. Published one rule to snorts rules.
- Got credit for reporting a major security hole with a Jrun (macromedia product>
- Almost came second : ) in a forensic investigation challenge organized by honeynet.org. My submission seems to be still online here.
- I’m currently a GCIA (SANS) certified intrusion analyst. My submission is still online here. Expires in 2010 March. Not sure if I’ll try to retake the exam again.
- 1996: I worked as a freelance journalist/writer for Indian editions of PC World and Computer World.
How to contact me
| Google Profile | royans @ google |
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| Phone | (408) 728-9421 |