About

So, who’s this ~Romil guy anyway?

Don’t really want to write an extensive autobiography here, so I’m taking this QnA approach to my introduction.

Why the heck do you add “~” with your name all the time?

Well, tilde (~) is an ASCII character with many usage. I started using it during 2004 while working with Amazon.com as mark of regards while signing-off internal communications. The usage derives out of Unix shell reference to user home directories. Tilde also is a non-SEO character, so it gives me some kind of anonymity over the web when I require.

Where are you located, live and work at?

Born and grew up in Pakur (a small town, 250 kms north-west of Kolkata, India) and moved to New Delhi in 2001. Work primarily in India, sometimes travel to South-east Asia for assignments. If you want my contact details, please drop me a line.

What do you do for living?

Although I try to wear many hats, but in short I’m a web and media consultant. I do things with new and social media that helps companies or individuals garner optimum benefits from Internet. I develop and manage promotional tools on digital mediums for small and medium-sized businesses. Web security is one area of special interest to me and I’ve talked on it on various forums.

Tools of trade and projects involved?

• Joomla! CMS – Developer, Enabler and Enthusiast since 2005
• Wikipedia – Editor and Enthusiast (English and Indic languages)
• WordPress – Love it! Executed numerous projects, continue doing so…
• Entrepreneur – Media Craft, Raconteur Media and Net Insta
• Editor & Moderator – TechArena, leading Indian tech community (2003 – 2007)
• Web Consultant – NIFM, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India
• IBM Global Business Process Pvt. Ltd. – 5 year stint with E-commerce giant in CS Usability and Reviews, part of Amazon.com, Yahoo! and Target.com projects
• Others – Documentary Films, New Media, Social Media, Copy-writing and idea incubating™

…and what else?

• Pink Floyd India – Member and Co-Founder on Orkut, since 2004 (18,295+ members)
• Philately, Calligraphy and Traveling

More scoop due here. Thanks for reading.