
Social Media Expert at UbuntuAtWork
India

Social Media Expert at UbuntuAtWork
India
Thejesh GN is an Electronics and Communication engineer from VTU. He started his career with Siemens Information Systems Ltd as an intern. After spending about six months, he joined Infosys Technologies Ltd as Software Engineer. Since then, he has taken many roles such as Developer, Programmer Analyst, Technical Specialist and Senior Technical Specialist. Currently he is working as a Technical Architect on a project related to holiday readiness for a big ecommerce website. His main areas of work are Rich web, real time web, java, j2ee etc. He has 7+ years of IT experience.
He loves hacking Open source softwares such as word press and Drupal. Most of the sites that he has created, involves using the LAMP architecture. He frequently takes sessions on OpenSource software to students. Last time he took the session was for the students of BMS, Bangalore and SJCE, Mysore to inspire them to use Free and Open source software.
He has contributed to several online communities through his personal projects like tweet4blood (skynews coverage), blogging and social media communities. His explorations into the social media and social tools space led Nokia to invite him to their home office at Finland. He represented India at OpenLab-Finland (Bangalore Mirror coverage). He likes blogging, cycling and exploring social entrepreneurship world.
Languages : Java, JSP, JavaScript, PHP, Python
Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Ajax, Google Web Toolkit, Jquery, CakePHP, Junit, LAMP stack
CMS : Drupal, Wordpress
Middleware technologies: WebSphere MQ 5.3
Database: DB2, MySQL
Tools: Toad, Eclipse, WSAD, RAD, OpenSTA
Design: Rational rose for UML modeling, Visio
Application Server: WebSphere 6.x, Tomcat
Operating Systems worked on: Windows, Linux
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
I volunteer at UbuntuAtWork as web designer, developer and social media expert. I deal with all related aspects, from concept to implementation.
(Public Company; INFY; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
I started EventsBangalore.net to share some events/happenings in and around Bangalore.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — December 2007 (5 years )
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — December 2002 (7 months)
I was the project trainee in SISL bangalore working on Digital Tachometer.
BE , Engineering in Electronics and Communication , 1998 — 2002
1998 — 2002
new technology, sky diving, scuba, traveling and writing
Bangalore Linux User Group (BLUG)
FOSS community of India, Bangalore, FilmCamp, blogging