Manish Sharma

My name is Manish Sharma and this is my corner (or center?) in cyberspace.

Table of Contents

1 Meta

The site is an experiment in self expression and organization. It has been created in super awesome Org-mode of Emacs.

"Vyom" means sky in Hindi and Sanskrit.

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2 About Myself

Professionally, I am an Oracle certified Applications DBA currently working with on capacity planning for a very large ERP site from Hyderabad, India.

2.1 Technical interests

  • Debian GNU/Linux for personal computing
  • Emacs as an immersive envronment
  • Git for version control
  • R for statistical data analysis
  • Ledger for personal accounting
  • Perl, Python, Lisp for programming
  • Org-mode with LaTeX for document processing
  • Virtualbox, VMware, Xen and OpenSolaris zones for virtualization
  • Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and DB2 databases
  • Oracle ERP and CRM for enterprise management
  • RRD Tool for system monitoring
  • Queuing theory for system simulation
  • And Org-mode for putting it all together

2.2 Other interests

  • Almost all kinds of music including Reggae, Hip-hop, Western Classical, Indian Classical, Metal, Techno
  • Books by Alexander Dumas, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Issac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Peter Drucker, Edward deBono, Douglas Adams, Oscal Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle among others.
  • Amateur radio… someday.
  • Toastmasters… someday.

2.3 People I admire (some real some not, in no specific order :)

  • Jimmy Wales
  • Lawrence Lessig
  • Richard Stallman
  • Linus Torvalds
  • Nicholas Negroponte
  • Phil Zimmermann
  • Richard Feynman
  • Carsten Dominik
  • John Wiegley
  • Gopinath
  • Uday Bikkasani
  • Adarsh Nomula
  • Emperor Akbar
  • Sardar Patel
  • Batman
  • Lord Krishna
  • Karna

2.4 Curriculum vitae

3 Software I use, support and promote

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4 Contact

mail to manish dot sharma at gmail dot com

5 But wait, there's more!

Author: Manish Sharma <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>

Date: 2009-06-24 Wed

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