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Hello everyone!!

<p style='text-align: justify;'>I am Sanchayan Maity and my life revolves
around electronics, programming, music and books. Long term goals are to
learn Haskell, compilers, Mathematics and operating/distributed systems in
depth.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Used to live in Mumbai and worked as an
Embedded Systems Engineer from July 2010 to 2012 at Godrej Security Solutions,
a sub division of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. Settled in Bangalore now.
Worked at [Toradex](https://www.toradex.com/) from 2013-2017 as a Development
Engineer on Linux for their downstream BSP while also making [upstream
contributions](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=sanchayan).
Spend two years at Harman International where I worked on custom Linux FPGA
driver for a frame grabber system. Currently am working at
[asymptotic.io](https://asymptotic.io) where my work mostly involves working
with GStreamer and also Pipewire and Pulseaudio. Was lucky enough to get to
work on Haskell for 8 months for a client as my very first assignment.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Am passionate about open source and also
organise and speak at the [Bangalore
Haskell](https://www.meetup.com/The-Bangalore-Haskell-User-Group/) and
[Rust](https://www.meetup.com/RustBLR/) meetup groups. Come say hello.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of
man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,
with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only
absolute.”
—Ayn Rand.</p>