Abhinav Singh

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- Abhi

Did my schooling from City Montessorie School (CMS), Mahanagar, Lucknow. Though there are many achievements of CMS-Lucknow, I would like to highlight a few of them here.

CMS, whose inspirational motto is "Jai Jagat", is the first school in the world to be honoured with the UNESCO prize for Peace Education in 2002. It is one of the world's largest schools in terms of number of students and by July 2005, had shown a record enrolment of more than 30,000 pupils.

After my schooling, I decided to pursue engineering in the field of Electronics and Communication at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. I graduated from IIT Guwahati in 2007.

At IITG, I worked extensively on "Automatic Music Categorization and Classification" Systems. My final B.Tech thesis can be downloaded from here.
I am currently working at Yahoo, Bangalore (June '08 - Present). My journey started as a backend engineer in Yahoo India Movies Team. There I primary focused on building scalable web services and backend caching implementation. Next I moved to the micro-site building team where I was working on India Elections '09 site. And, Currently I am working as a backend engineer in Yahoo Cricket Team.

Oracle was my first employer (June '07 - May '08). There I was a part of Supply Chain Management (SCM) Team, OBIEE Group. Specifically I worked on building Common dimensions and SCM Modules for the OBIEE Apps 7.9.4 and 7.9.5 release.


I did my 3rd year internship at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (May '06 - July '06). There I was a part of the ITS Team, building Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems for the Axmedis Project.
I was introduced to the web technologies in October '07 during a training session at Oracle. Tomcat, Oracle Db, Java and JSP was what we learnt during the training sessions. However within a month, my focus shifted towards technologies like Apache, MySQL, PHP, Javascript, Openlaszlo. As a result, I switched my job from Oracle to where I was able to find my work interest.

In April '08 I started my weblog which is a collection of various views, discussion and tutorials written by me. The blog primarily focuses on web development technologies.

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My first real introduction to music was way back in December '02, thanks to Amit Chandra and Navneet Singh (best buddies). Back then Navneet was looking to form a band and after some effort finally the band was named as "Aaveg" which went on to win various college gigs and festivals.

I never looked back after my initial introduction to music. Luckily I went to IIT Guwahati for my graduation, which already had a good culture for rock music. There I formed a band called "Ichor". Ichor performed all throughout the 4 years in various cultural night and competitions. Remarkable achievement include 2nd runners up at Rock-o-Phonix. Ichor finally came out with 4 original compositions.

Listen to Aaveg and Ichor Songs
Few things that interests me apart from Music are sports. Cricket was always my first love from my school days. That passion continued after coming to IIT Guwahati where I was opener for IITG cricket team for 3 years.

Apart from Cricket, I love to play Table Tennis, Football and Badminton. Other than this I have always been a lover of Pool, Billiards and Snooker. Infact at one stage of my life I was looking for a carrier in Snooker.

Finally my sports interests ends up with swimming and Snow-Sports, for which I found interest while I was in Switzerland for my internship at EPFL.

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