Anand Sharma

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area, North Carolina United States

IT Architect

Electronics / Computer Hardware

I am a Blue-Collar Solution Architect and an aspiring Software Craftsman passionate about architecting, designing and developing distributed applications and services that meet high performance-at-scale numbers. My first programs were in Fortran (in 1991) and fell in love with Perl during my Graduate School years (1995-1996) at Arizona State. Since then, I have enjoyed being somewhat of a polyglot dabbling with building applications in Java, Python and Ruby. I pride myself at always striving to stay close to the Mezzanine level of an Information Technology Shop Floor (read, "code"), befriend other "Byte code Badshahs", pray at the altar of knowledge and worship intellect and insight whe..