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Hello. I am Akshay Dhavle. I am a software professional (for lack of a more generic term) by profession.
I love listening to Indian Classical Music. I play spanish guitar, do a little photography and handwriting
analysis (Graphology). I used to practice karate (and still do sometimes... but not really).
I was born and brought up in a city called "Thane" close to Bombay (now called "Mumbai") in India. I studied
at St. John The Baptist High School, Thane. I was always much influenced by science and it would have only
been natural for me to take up the science stream after I completed X std. I was also deeply interested in
computers and that is what helped me take a better decision about my further education along with my dad's
guidance. My dad made realize that education has nothing to do with what you do in life (although he didn't
say so) and that I should rather give more time to what I want to do all my life than to enter the rat race
for marks and grades. I chose commerce as my stream and completed my graduation in it from
Mulund College of Commerce! Meanwhile I did exactly
what I wanted to do coz the 3 hrs college gave me enough time to learn about computers. I did get my hands dirty
with all kinds of computer related things... free-lance software development, open-source software, assembling
computers, etc.
After three years of B.Com I decided that I needed a course that would get me into a place where I can put to
use the technical knowledge I had gathered till then. I chose to do MBA(IT) from
Symbiosis, Pune for post graduation.
The choice was an entire success and MBA(IT) gave me everything I wanted. Luckily, I found spare time (that's tough
in an MBA course) and something to do in my spare time. So I started learning to play guitar and also started
working in Symbiosis's Software Development and Research Cell. In the second year of MBA I did some free-lance work
for a firm in Pune.
Currently I am working with ThoughtWorks Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore. We follow
Agile Software development practices and it's a more than welcome change
to the usual software development procedure majority of the people follow.
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