I am an average human & introvert by nature; an IT Pro by profession and Infosec is a subject I am quite enthusiastic about. I work for the IT industry in the infrastructure side of things i.e I manage IT geeks, Servers, Network, Security & Desktops, a resident of Chennai, INDIA and happily married with a boisterous son.
My full name is Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian I am generally called by people as Ramki. Since people often got confused and addressed me as Balasubramanian (my father’s name) and as my full name is a bit long; I use the profile name as “Ramki B Ramakrishnan”. This tweaking makes it standard and most of them end up using Ramki or Ramakrishnan.
I like to read books - any type fiction, non-fiction, tech, philosophy, comics; Watch movies & listen to music - any genre as far as they are enjoyable (I am not doing much of both nowadays). I spend lot of time on internet learning & reading; other than general news, common subjects & trending topics my favorite subjects are Infosec, IT Infrastructure management, General management, and Leadership. I have made lot of attempts to blog but never really succeeded in doing it regularly; after embracing twitter I am now into micro-blogging.
I am a member in most of the popular networking sites and I use them as below:
Twitter (https://twitter.com/ramki_b) – My favorite; almost every day I spend an hour on this. I use twitter to learn & share interesting things. Most of my tweets are related to InfoSec. I predominantly follow InfoSec people and I follow people back except when I find them; spamming, having porn content, doing sales pitch, network marketing, using tweets for only communication, devoid of any interesting content. I have nothing against these types of tweets but they do not fulfill my purpose on twitter.
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ramki.b) – Largely my Facebook friends are classmates, friends, friend-of-friends, colleagues; meaning I know them by flesh and skin not only online. Lots of my friends are on facebook, in fact most of them do not even have a online profile; may be due to a) I grew up on a middle class environment where most of my friends are not computer savvy b) ISP’s came up only well after my student days. Hence most of my freinds do only email. My agenda on facebook is just to stay in touch with a circle of people.
Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/bramakrishnan) – My connections are a varied mix in this, but for classmates (I am still searchingJ for them online). I connect with my colleagues (ex. & current), professional contacts, customers, etc. Though I am not sure how? My primary Linkedin agenda is to get networked with the industry and career development.
Friendfeed (http://friendfeed.com/bramkie) – I am not very active on this whenever I find anything of general interest I share it. Idea is to share interesting stuff.
I do have a profile but I am not active on Orkut, MSN, Flickr, and Myspace.
I have couple of blogs on blogger (http://ramkie.blogspot.com/ & http://itpro-blog.blogspot.com/) where I post occasionally and of course Posterous (http://ramki.posterous.com/). I have rather good intentions of becoming an active blogger but do not have a definite plan for it. (Similarly I want to get into Writing, Films, and Photography J not sure how & when these will happen)
I appreciate connections, comments, and suggestions feel free to contact with me at bramkie (at) gmail (dot) com
