About Me

Hi! I am Susam. Welcome to my website. This page provides a brief introduction about me and this website.

I am a software engineer by profession. I have a keen interest in free and open source software. My first non-trivial contribution to open source was NUTCH-559 in 2007. That contribution added support for various authentication schemes to Apache Nutch, an open source web crawler. I have remained active in the open source communities since then.

When not involved with technology, I like reading books, playing the piano and travelling.

Blogroll

This website has a blogroll consisting a list of my favourite blogs. The blogroll also offers an OPML file, so that you can follow the websites in my blogroll from your feed reader. To check my blogroll, please visit roll.html.

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Name

I have been told many times that my name, 'Susam', is a little unusual which makes it difficult for others to figure how to pronounce it. It is pronounced almost like the English words 'sue sum' (/suːsʌm/). However you may call my name however you find most natural, convenient or intuitive. I do not mind mispronunciations of my name at all whatsoever.