#Hi!#
My name is Dhasharath Shrivathsa, a 16 year own born and brought up in Silicon valley. I built my first computer when I was 11 years old, and that basic frame has lasted me through the years and is one of my main computers still (albeit with a few upgrades)
I started writing Python and Perl when I was 15 to administer my VMWare ESXi cluster and perform routine tasks. I am by no means only a software guy, and am very interested in the intersection of hardware and software. I currently mostly write code for these practical purposes, and have attained some stunning results with them
A few things I do with my knowlege of both hardware and software is useful devices in and around my house. Examples of these are
- A private cloud based on Owncloud
- storage backend based on ZFS and a cool project called Greyhole
- A Plex Media server running on top of it all
- All of the above using authentication off Active Directory
- A Raspberry pi embedded in areas above my ceiling which monitor and control aspects of my house, using IR distance rangers and a couple of relays, and a whole lotta logic to detect which people in my family are in which rooms, have their music follow them around from room to room, and have their own presets.
- A VMWare ESXi cluster based on old server hardware runs all of this (BTW if you need large amounts of compute, the Dell c6100 is awesome
My passion is not only limited to hardware, and I'm currently actively following Ghost, a node.js based blogging platform, and trying to teach myself a lot about node and Jquery. Django really interests me as web framework due to its python roots.
if you need any info about me, feel free to ask!