About

Joy
By day I am a software engineer, and I write code for the Yahoo! finance site: http://finance.yahoo.com. I am a backend developer working with webservices for financial data, but occasionally dabble with frontend as well. I also make usable web applications and tools whenever I need to reduce tedium in my work. My career interests are primarily in solving complex problems and improving performance of data-driven systems, be it finance or bioinformatics.

LinkedIn would be a good place to check out my professional background.

Quickest way to reach me by email: jdutta@gmail.com

This blog is my primary publishing platform. I also have a home ownership blog and a casual journal.

Some history

I grew up in Santiniketan, a small town near Kolkata, India. My primary education was in an open-air school which made a profound impact in my life. From an early age I developed a fondness to design and create things as a hobby, be it electronics or cardboard models or visual art. At 15, I got my first computer – a 40Mhz 80386 with 4MB RAM. I had a lot of fun with BASIC before moving on to C. The fascination with computing devices eventually got me a graduate degree in computer science. To this day, my CS background motivates me to develop solutions for real world problems.

Inspiration

I am driven by productivity. I get my inspiration from the works of great engineers in the software and design industry, as well as famous photographers and creative artists. I believe life is too short to not indulge in the euphoric satisfaction that comes from creating usable products and provocative visual imagery.