Abhijit Patharkar - Master's Student at Columbia University

Abhijit Patharkar

Master's Student at Columbia University

I'm an Technology Management student at Columbia University.

A developer by heart, with a deep focus on scalable architectures. I have been in the Software industry for the past 14 years and counting. I'm both self-driven and motivated, and constantly experimenting with new technologies. Have got my hands dirty with most of the programming languages in the past 15 years.

Prior to being a student, I was a Staff Engineer at VMware and prior to that I ran my own Technology Consulting Start-up for around 6 years. I intent to re-ignite the entrepreneur spirit inside me and jump into the start-up world, only this time much prepared. Looking forward to mee you all at the meetup.

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