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    <h1>About Me</h1>
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        Hello there, I'm Pradheap. I work as a Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA and live in Belmont, CA. I graduated in Mechatronics Engineering from <a href='https://www.tce.edu/' target="_blank">TCE</a> in the year 2007.
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        I primarily work with NodeJS and Python with some AWS services. I used to develop applications with Java/J2EE frameworks like Struts and Spring long back.
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        I love reading non-fiction books on various subjects such as Psychology, Biology, Physics and History. Though I've read a couple of fictions like 'Godfather' and 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', I prefer reading non-fiction minus self-help books in the hope of better understanding our complex world, organisms that inhabit this world and the cosmos. You can look at what I've been reading on <a href ='https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4987984-pradheap' target="_blank">Goodreads</a>.
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        I'm a 3D printing enthusiast and I love 3D modeling. You can find my designs <a href='https://www.thingiverse.com/prad/designs' 
        target="_blank">here</a>. I own an Ultimaker 3D printer (the very first DIY kit version).
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        This site is developed using <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a>
        and is hosted for free via GitHub. 
        Images are served by <a href="https://cloudinary.com/" target="_blank">Cloudinary</a> 
        I often create some websites just for fun. One such recent one is 
        <a href='https://www.textosaur.us/' target="_blank">Textosaur.us</a>, a site to manipulate text on the fly.
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        <strong>Standard disclaimer</strong>: <i>All views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my past, present, or future employer.</i>
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