It Begins

My name is Ronit Ray, and I am the fastest man alive.

Nope. My name is Ronit Ray and I am an engineering student looking for the will to live. Now that's more like it. Over the last few months, my mediocrity has crept up to me and I feel there are more impediments holding me back than ever before. I'm trying to stand out from the crowd of mediocre engineers, and can't seem to find a way to do so. Which is what I hope to change here.

I'm going to try and keep this blog as updated as I can over the next few years so that it serves as a technical journal, a progress marker of sorts, and maybe even as a decent addendum to my CV provided I can do half the stuff I dream of doing.

Here's who I am, or at least what my LinkedIn profile has to show.

A computer science student at the University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata.

My skills: 

Elementary:

Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, C, Python, SQL, Arduino.

Intermediate/Advanced:

Yup, nothing.

Trainings and Certifications I've undertaken:

1. Embedded Systems and Basic Robotics using Arduino from a firm called Distronix India.
2. HTML5 and CSS3 Fundamentals- Development for Absolute Beginners (Microsoft MVA)
3. Front-End Development Certification- FreeCodeCamp (I still have a couple of projects left to get the actual certificate, but the course is done and dusted.)
4. Introduction to Programming Using Python (Microsoft MVA)
5. Intro to Python for Data Science (DataCamp)
6. Tidy Data in Python Mini-Course (DataCamp)
7. Ethical Hacking Workshop from a private firm called HackCieux.

Projects I've done:

1. Basic Calculator with HTML/CSS/Bootstrap/JS/jQuery
2. Wikipedia API Search with Wikipedia's JSON API.
3. A Local Weather Viewer which uses the OpenWeatherMap JSON API coupled with the browser's geolocation or ip-api's JSON API to automatically show the weather for the user's location without any manual input.
4. Research Projects
1. A concurrency-based bitwise symmetric-key cryptographic algorithm.
2. Segmentation-Based Image Compression
3. Recognition of Hindu-Arabic Characters using Mathematical Morphology. 
• All of these were presented at the 7th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference at Columbia University, New York City and should be published anytime now. Hopefully. Just about now. Aaaanytime now would be nice. Please?

That's about it. I used to have great scores in school, but my college scores are just about average. 82.5% in the first year, and an entirely directionless second year. I'm sitting here blogging when I have an exam on Monday. You get the drift.

Anyhow, I picked Blogger because it loads a lot faster than WordPress (which was my favoured medium earlier. Oh yeah, Medium. Medium would have been cool too, but again, I needed something which loads fairly fast even if I have downloads running in the background, which I almost always do.) Let's see how this goes.