About Me – Muru

Call me Muru.

ムッラセレルムルケシュと申します。ムルと呼んでください。宜しくお願い致します。

I know English, മലയാളം (Malayalam), हिंदी (Hindi), 日本語 (Japanese) and a smattering of मराठी (Marathi).

I graduated in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Guwahati, back in 2012. But early on, I realized that I preferred the world of computers. I took to CS courses like a duck to water, and adopted Linux as main OS in my second year. I was the geek that classmates turned to for tech support.

So I decided to switch fields, going for a Master of Technology in Computer Science in IIT Bombay. During the course, I worked for the department as an RA in System Administration, and got plenty of opportunity to hone my Linux skills.

Then, at Yahoo! Japan, I did DevOps for the NoSQL team, principally working on Cassandra. After Y!J, I moved to a small startup, NABLAS, where I did a bit of everything: system administration, DevOps, software engineering.

Now, I am at Paidy, where I work as a Platform Engineer.

I was a prolific contributor to Stack Exchange, mostly on the Ask Ubuntu and Unix & Linux sites. I have also contributed to the creation of the Vi and Vim SE site, serving as one of its first pro-tem moderators.

Lately, I don’t post that much.

I share the hobby of the masses - reading. Favourite books include:

Stephen King’s The Green Mile,
Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series,
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series (expanded by the Galactic Empire and Robot novels),
Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series,
Neal Stephenson’s Anathem,
Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive

I took up photography in IIT Bombay and cycling after I moved to Japan. Photography is my driving passion when it comes to the outdoors: when I travel for fun, I travel to photograph. That’s why I like cycling - it affords more opportunities to capture visuals than racing past in a bike or a car does. I haven’t really kitted up: I have a Nikon D5300 and a 2017 Giant Contend 2.

I am a Gooner. Favourite players include Dennis Bergkamp, Santi Cazorla, and Wojciech Szczęsny. I have been an Arsenal fan since the Champions League final in Paris, 2006. (Yes, I never got to enjoy the peak of the Wenger era.) Even so, there’s only one. Arsène. Wenger.