About
So, who’s this ~Romil guy anyway?
Don’t really want to write an extensive autobiography here, so I will try to fend-off few obvious questions and some not so obvious ones too.
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.
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?
Erm, that’s a difficult one. 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 business. Web security is one area of special interest to me and I keep in tune of ‘whats up’ things in this arena.
Tools of trade and projects involved?
- Joomla! CMS – Developer, Planner and Enthusiast since 2005
- Wikipedia – Editor and Enthusiast (English and Indic languages)
- WordPress – Love it! Executed many 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.