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Aparna
RV,
Vikram Pandita and Srinivasa Prasad Vangaru
(SP) are working for Motorola,
Bangalore. Aparna just finished a Masters from Illinois Insitute
of Technology. SP was with Hughes Software Gurgaon till
Jan 2003 and recently moved to Motorola.
Aanchal
Yogesh (formerly Aanchal Roongta) and Yogesh Sundaramurthy
are the first BITSian couple of our batch to get
married. They work at National Instruments.
Srinivasan
has recently moved to SAP,
Bangalore after a stint of two years with I-flex solutions. He's
currently with a group that caters to Software Product
Management for the Public Sector industry. Whether, he's
comfortable working in SAP technology or not, he insists
he's picked up a smattering of German to start with!
Srinivas V
(Vasu / Sherni, 96B2A5496) works with SCT Software
Solutions Bangalore.
Sandhya
E
and Vrushali Mahalley work for Sun Microsystems.
Sandhya is married to Bobby (BITS, 94?)
Amjad
Baig(96A4PS200)
works for Symphony Services. He worked with Oracle for
2.5 years, and then moved to Symphony.
Sriram
Ramadoss
(SickG) works for Texas Instruments at
Bangalore.
JG
Prasad
(JG)
and RajSekhar Tanneru (Raja) work for the other
Indian IT icon, Wipro at Bangalore.
Vinodh
Rajaraman (P3, 96A8PS169) is now working for Huawei, PR China and is busy with
the masseuses of Shenzhen. He hope to be back in
Bangalore in a couple of months.
State
University of New
York, Binghamton plays host to Satish P (Satti,
96B4A4328), Satish Chaparala and Shiva Kalyan
Mandepudi (Shivki, 96A4PS226). Satti is doing his
Masters in Mechical Engineering. Satish Chaparala is
writes in to say “After finishing my masters in
mechanical engineering with specialisation in electronic
packaging, I am working towards my doctoral degree. My
research involves determination of material properties
for various lead free solder alloys.” Shivki just
finished his Masters in Industrial Engineering.
Gopi
Maguluri (Gopi, 96A4PS247), is at
Boston University. He worked at Mahindra and Mahindra as part of their R&D team at
Nashik (Scorpio??), for an year before moving to the
US.
A certain Narendar Shankar (Papa
for everybody), has been making waves with his research
on wireless security(or rather the gaps in it). At
present he works for HP Labs as Research Associate.
Legend has it that he has become a white-collar
mercenary and works for the research lab that offers him
the most challenging work and a compelling pay packet.
Among those who have already used his services are
Fujitsu and IBM.
Tarun
Desikan (Taklu, 96A3PS036), works at a optical networking startup in
California after finishing his MS at Stanford.
Bandarupalli Sasikiran,
Krishna Reddy (Kris) and Harsimran Singh
work with Cognizant Technologies, Chennai.
V.Srikanth(96A4PS223,Vumma)
is working in Covansys Chennai and also pursuing his ME
SS from BITS DLPD program. He is very busy organizing
cricket matches in his company and he won best batsman
award twice.
V
Sriram
(96A3PS080) is a design consultant for the Embedded
Systems Group at HCL Technologies at Chennai.
Srinivas Eushakoila
(Srini, annai, 96B3A6487) is working for TCS, Chennai.
And he is currently working as Tech Lead in one of the
complex projects in Insurance Business Domain.
Sriram
Sankaran
(Thangamani, 96B1A3606) is doing Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at the
University of
Illinois,
Chicago.
Also at UIC, Chicago is Siddharth
Ramakrishnan (Hamsa). After a brief tryst with a
Master's in Computer Science, Siddharth is now avidly
courting his passion in Biological Sciences. At present
he is pursuing a PhD in the field of Neuroscience. Bored
with the inanimate, digital media, his research now lies
with the brains of snails.
Karthik
Hariharakrishnan
(Coonoor, 96A8PS073) is doing an MS in Electrical
Engineering. Currently on the hunt for jobs. Having fun
with hordes of Bitsians at Univ of Illinois at
Chicago.
Jagadeesh
(Jaggu, 96A8PS153) is working in Texas Instruments,
Dallas since Sept 2002.
Ankur
Jain
finished his MS in photonic devices, and now working on
a Ph.D on Biomedical imaging in University of
Florida.
Shravan
Kumar Chargonda
(96C5C6653) is working as a Research Associate at INSEAD,
France on Project Management Simulation since Aug 2001.
Nagavijayalakshmi
(Naga) is working in Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon.
Ashok
Balasubramanian
(Ska) is doing his
Master’s in University of
Hawaii,
Honolulu(very difficult to concentrate there??)
Sreenivas Kolanuvada
(Banda,
96A4PS208) is putting night outs at ADP Wilco
international, Hyderabad. Rumor is that he is getting
married to one big shot.
Ashish
Agarwal is working in ESRI India (NIIT - GIS),
Hyderabad
Hemchand Alla is currently working with Microsoft,
Hyderabad. After a brief stint at Veritas, Pune, he
moved to Microsoft India Development Centre at
Hyderabad.
Raghavulu Patchipulusu
(96A2PS333, Vulu, Raghav) works for AmSoft Systems at
Vienna, Austria. He has been staying in Austria for last
couple of years, and will return to New Delhi sometime.
Arun
Ramakrishnan
(Toad) finished his MS in Comp Sci at
Ohio
State
University and is going to join the Storage Networking
Group at Silicon Graphics Inc.
Vijay
Devatha and Vivek Sadanand (Visa, 96A6A7393) are doing their Master’s
in Computer Science at
University of
Illonois at Urbana Champaign . Heard that both are creating
waves there. Vijay Devatha is an year away from
finishing his MS. He is currently on the hunt for a job.
Visa will be finishing his MS soon.
Archana
Ramakrishnan
(96A6PS300) is ensuring that every penny (paise??) is
squeezed out of the supply chain. She is working with i2
Technologies.
IBM Bangalore has ARK Ranga Rao,
Brahmaiah Vallabhaneni(96A1PS297), Ira Kanwar
(96A3PS007), Madhu Sridharan(96A3PS133) and
Vishnu Vardhan. A friend told us that Vishnu has
got a ‘race bike’ and is busy flitting between Bangalore
and Pune to meet his fiancee.
Rashmi
Iyengar
and Vidhyeshwari Sekhar (Yash) work with I-Flex
Solutions.
Sandeepan Chaudhuri(Sandy),
Vinay Venkateshwaran and M Venkata Shreeram(Pandu,
96A3PS025) are doing their MBA in IIM Bangalore. Sandy
and Vinay will be graduating in March 2003. Sandy is
currently single and says this status may change soon.
Pandu joined IIMB in 2002 after working with
Intelligroup at their Hyderabad office.
Infosys Technologies apparently has many
people from the 96 batch. Among those who have written
in to confirm their presence are Chandra Sekhar V
(Chowki), Rahul Singh(Pondy). They work for Infy
at Bangalore.
Arun Kumar D
(Chult) is has his hand full of chips and is working with Intel,
Bangalore.
Ravi
Kiran.G
(96A6PS065) is currently working at Bangalore for a
networking startup called Ionic Microsystems in the area
of home networking technologies.
Krishna
Pramod A
(96A3PS098, KishP) has been working with Lucent
Technologies, Bangalore since June 2000.
Ravindra. P (96A7PS027) is with HP as senior software engineer. He
joined Veritas from campus and worked there till
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Amarnath Reddy
(96A3PS015) works for Orbitech-Polaris(Formerly COSL),
Hyderabad. He is currently single but the astrologers
are busy predicting dates
Ravisekhar CH was working with Pramati,
Hyderabad. Presently, in the midst of a job change.
Ashwin
Yadav
(Jat, 96A3PS062) is working with Aditya Birla Group,
Indian Wilderness. He survived two years of Powerpoint
templates and two by two matrices at MDI, Gurgaon (Think
its called an MBA) Presently: With the Aditya Birla
Group (If there ever was a loyalist!!)
Jeevan
(Jeeku, 96B4A7290) is doing his Masters in Computer
Science in University of
Iowa.
Jashobrata Bose (Jasho) worked with Hindustan Lever for 2 years,
manufactured ice creams in Nashik, shaving cream at
Yavatmal (= Heart of Maharashtra) got some fundas at IIM
A and is now doing his MBA at XLRI, Jamshedpur. He will
be doing his summers at PWC, Kolkata.
Krishna
Yadappanavar
(YadP,
96A7PS011) worked with Veritas, Pune & Andiamo,
Bangalore before moving onto Commvault, Jersey City.
Expert in Storage Area Networks!
B G
Ramprasad Torati
(Rampi) worked for Cisco till Oct 2002. Now, doing his
predoctorla school in Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology at Lausanne,Switzerland.
Planning to do PhD in distributed systems area.
Vikram
Soni
(Soni, 96A8PS462) completed his MBA from IIMA and joined Global Markets
group in Deutsche Bank,
London.
Single and no kids.
Ramu
(96A8PS914) is doing
MS in Computer Systems Engg at University of
East London,
London and topping the university and says “We are the
supreme in what ever we get into. We challenge!!!!!!!
Aravind
Sundaresan
(Sundi)
is doing his Ph.D in electrical engineering at
University of Maryland, Maryland.
Abbhirami Rajagopal
(Abi) and Vijay Gopalakrishnan(96C6PS678) are
doing their PhDs at University of
Maryland at
College Park, Maryland. Abi in Molecular and Cellular
Biology and Vijay is a 3rd year PhD student
in Computer Science.
Anuradha Raju has finished her Masters from
University of
Maryland,
College Park and is working as a consultant with Appian
Corporation, Washington DC.
Anukul
(96A3PS072) Worked with Orbitech/COSL for a year, did a
little bit of Europe trotting and then decided to get
back to academics.He is currently pursuing his Masters
in VLSI at Wayne State University,Michigan.
Manoranjan Das (96A2PS284) is working at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Consulting, Mumbai.
Dindi
Kesava Rao
(Chebbu) works for iflex Mumbai. Was in
Malaysia for about 2 years on project work.
Kiran
Kumar Jinka (Jinka, 96A1PS211) is working with Mahindra British
Telecom, Mumbai.
Anand
Bharadwaj(AB, Andy, Andu, anything else?) finished his MBA from
IIM Calcutta and is selling hair oils and edible oils to
hordes of Indians for Marico Industries, Mumbai
Rajarshi Chakravorty
is working as a Management Trainee at Reckitt Benckiser,
Mumbai after finishing his MBA from IIM, Lucknow.
Ranjith
(96A2PS383) works for AmSoft Systems, New Delhi.
Bhuvan
Gupta, Deepak Nohwal, Madhav Vodnala are working with Fiorano
Software Inc.,
New
Delhi. Deepak is working as Team Leader and looking to
hire good-looking girls for his team..:-))). (The guys
of his office are queuing up to join his team!).
Kiran
Chandra Z
(Z aka Z-Ki, 96A7PS037) is working as Sr. Member of Tech
Staff at Adobe, Noida.
Ashok
Inigo Roy and Rishi Jhaver are doing their Master’s in
University
of Cincinnati at Ohio. Ashok worked at Hughes Bangalore
for an year and is now doing his MS. Rishi worked at
Orbitech Chennai for an year, then quit the job in Aug
'02 just after returning from Citibank, London and now
doing his MS in Computer Science.
Manish
Bothra is doing his Master’s in Material Science at
Oregon
State University, Oregon.
Satyam
Vaghani graduated from Stanford a year ago and now works for a
Palo Alto, California
startup called VMware. For a month in summer, his alter
ego drives him to work at the Performance
Center at
Spartanburg, SC.
Juhi
Mohan
(96A3PS085), has started her MS in Engg at San Jose
State
University this spring. After BITS, she worked at COSL/Orbitech
Mumbai till Jan 2002. Got married in Feb 2002 and has
been at Santa Clara, California since then.
Mukund
Adapala (96A1PS294) works for Infosys at Pune.
Rajesh
Polimera (Big B, Bade), Ganesh Kumar Gella(Gella,
96B2A4519) and Jayaprakash Katari(96A7PS194) are
working for the Storage company of the world, Veritas at
Pune. Rajesh works as Associate Software Engineer.
Ganesh is a Software Engineer and is a core developer
for Veritas "Netbackup" product.
Pushkin
P
finished his Masters in Computer Networking from NCSU
and has just started work with CipherOptics Inc at
Raleigh,
NC.
Prashant(Pram,
96A7PS035) plans to graduate by December 2003 from North
Carolina State University Raleigh, NC and make it big in
the area of network security. He is single and searching
actively ;-)
Anand
Sudarshan (BBC) is doing his PhD at Mayo Clinic, Department of Immunology,
Rochester Minnesota.
V
Prasanna Krishnan
got a Masters in Computer Science from Univ. of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She says : “Cham-bana is a lot
like Pilani (with a few more cars & a few less camel
carts), but it's a great school & I really enjoyed my
work there”. And now working as a Program Manager at
Microsoft, Redmond, Seattle.
Satish
Chandra Sista
(Sista, 96B3A3408) is working with O2micro Pte Ltd,
Singapore.
Aparajit
(Appu, 96A4PS217) is doing his Master’s in Mechanical
Engineering at University of
Texas at
Austin.
Chaitanya Reddy (96A3PS089) just finished Master's thesis. And still
very very single. Interested ?
Prasanth a.k.a Pashu
(96A6C6506) is in the second year of his MBA from IIM
Ahmedabad and will be graduating in March. He did his
summer training at Goldman Sachs, London trading
Currencies, Power, Oil, Gold and Government Securities.
Final placements start in a couple of weeks time
Naveen
Kumar Patha
(Glow,
96A4PS195) now works with Accenture, He finished his
bachelors in Mechanical to do his practicals in software
at the world's database company, ie Oracle, Bangalore.
Worked there for 2.5 years, then moved to Accenture.
Anil
Sharma (96A7PS026), Arunangshu Chakraborthy(96A7PS004) and Nikhil
Kolar(96A7PS049) work at Celstream Technologies.
Nikhil will be starting his MBA at
Carnegie
Mellon
University during the Fall of 2003.
Bhanuprakash GVS (96A1A7207) and Himanshu Gupta (96A7PS033) are
ensuring that the bits and bytes go places– by building
software for Cisco. Bhanu has been with Cisco since June
2001. Himanshu is working on optical systems and has
resolved to dump the TV and spend time with books.
Krishna
Hegde (96A7PS034) has been working with Hindustan Lever –
after a 15 month stint as Business Leadership Trainee
that saw him sell soap at Adyar, study social cohesion
in rural Rajasthan and learn the smarts on strategy and
finance at IIMA, he works as Systems Manager and handles
information management for the Levers sales function.
Alphonse Reddy, Siddharth Toshniwal (Sito), Subhash Nayak
and Vishal Kayship (Ketchup) work for Hughes
Software Systems. Alphonse has finished his GMAT and
plans to apply for an MBA next year. Rumor has it that
he will soon be shifting to Sasken Technologies. Sito
and Subhash are putting night outs working on Internet
Telephony/SIP. Kayship in addition to software has been
doing a client facing role and sweeping the women off
their feet.
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