Umashankar Sivakumar
By trade I'm a software engineer in high performance computing. Outside of work, I practise Hindustani classical music (Khayal on sitar and Dhrupad on surbahar), take black & white photographs, play tennis, and learn Vedic chants. When time and schedule allow, I read books, play video games, listen to classical music, code tech projects, explore fragrances, work on bonsai plants, or travel.
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High Performance Computing
Code that simulates proteins and fluids, built for the largest computers.
Hindustani Classical Music
A raag is that which colours the mind, in a thousand shades.
Black & White Photography
A symphony of lights and shadows, with the geometry holding each frame together.
Tennis
The rush of a clean strike, and the running, and the exhaustion, and the ball coming back at you.
Vedic Chants
Mantras I grew up around, and the Yajur Veda I'm learning to chant from our acharya.
Travel
You go to see a place, and come home seeing your own.
Play
Everything else I spend time on because I enjoy it.
Thoughts
Ideas that ran for a long time, written down to find clarity and a position to work from.
About Me
The one doing all of the above, up at five to do it all.