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Hey, what the heck you landed here out of curiosity or as a matter of fact that some search engines that said that I am Keith Dsouza. Yea my name is not unique but I am a bit popular when you search for my name. While you are here, why not spend some time knowing me. And by the way if you came here searching for someone else, spend some time read about me and then let me know if you think you want to know me.

If you are here to crib about how I am the most wanted person on the Internet with a similar name, I must say I had similar feelings some 10 years ago, so I made a resolution and fulfilled it and made every search engine point to me when someone types my name. I am not being cruel, but its unfortunate you share a similar name. I shared the same identity crisis 10 years ago when there was only Yahoo!.

Well before you know me, you need to know about my existence, so to be frank I was born on 8th of October, its also a holiday throughout the world celebrated as my birthday, yea I am that famous.

I have lived 24 years of my living life in Mumbai (India) a place they call the business capital of India, but seriously I never had any business out there. For the rest of the years (two right now, maybe more depending on when your reading this, but caclulate it this way (1982 + 24) - which year you are reading this) of my life I have been in United States where I can sit on a train and see 6 people from different nationalities sitting across me.

Well there are several things I have done in my life, or if you can say with my life that make me proud.

I never attended college because I felt it was a waste of time (I am a graduate by correspondence), in the time that I could spare I built software and made a career out of it.

I bought my own house when I was 22 years old (I am still cribbing since I was technically 23), yea that is a plus point of not attending college to waste time.

I was laid off from a company after the first month I started working there, because they were cost cutting and I was studying, not because of my capabilities. They called me back and then when I was leaving them, they offered me a offer which I could not refuse, but I refused nevertheless because it was more like being a jerk working there.

I got my first appreciation of my work in the new company barely two months after I joined it with a raise in salary.

I make more money blogging, than I made while I was working full time in India 3 years ago, by writing a single blog post review. (Yea, people pay me $500 to write stupid things about them (sorry sponsors, but this is my personal blog))

I have a bad habit of speaking my mind out, which in the past few years I have "scaled down" to speaking my mind out to myself, still reaching the goal there. I have adapted a saying called “Sleep on It”, please don’t confuse this with “Sleep with It”.

I can get pretty sarcastic if you annoy me.

I am a practically joker making fun out of situations rather than having to crib about it.

The word fear is not in my dictionary, unless it all settles onto me.

Well there are several things you should know about me, but I would leave it to the age old formula of know me to know me better.

What do I Exactly Do?

By the time you have reached this paragraph I am totally sure you have a question in your mind, asking yourself what the hell you are doing here. But if you are interested here is what I do exactly.

Software Engineer [June of 1999 to Eternity]

Well I have been into software for 8 long years, I do not know when I will cease to stop being one, but yes I love coding, I love challenges and I love solving puzzles clients throw at me with something called software.

I have been developing applications in Java, ASP, PHP and more since last 8 years, though I do not have any client recommendations to show you how good I am (they always say I sucked). I grew from being a developer into a planner and integrator and my work obviously was noticed which led my employers to think that, I should be working from the US office rather than someplace else. Sigh all my other clients always told me I sucked at what I did (kidding).

I am good learner and quick at it, no kidding. I make software seem easy to those who are around me, if you don’t believe me talk to me.

Top WordPress Plugin Developer

Well I have been using WordPress for like eternity and never felt that the underlying software was good enough. My first thrust with WordPress development came with a still yucky commenting system where administrators had to visit a post and then reply to the comments. I swear I Googled a lot before I could find a solution for it, and yea the solution was writing something myself.

So I began a new journey, learning how to write WordPress plugins, taking numerous printouts from the help section and then wrote the plugin which started it all, it’s called Better Comments Manager. All it did was fix a feature that had to be inbuilt and allowed a site administrator to reply to any comments right from the admin panel itself.

Well for a period it did satisfy my underlying self telling me that I did something really big, but that was until I heard about a plugin competition that was being held at Web Logs Tools Collection (Disclaimer: I write for WLTC now) that led me to write one of the best, if not the best plugin of all time for WordPress called WordPress Automatic Upgrade. I won the third prize in the competition, but that did not leave people from saying it was the best plugin ever. Check how many people are talking about it on Google.

I have written several other plugins, few of which I have released and few which I am still finding time to release.

Well not end of the road, but a start to several new things you will see from me for WordPress.

Failed Entrepreneur

Well I have tried my hands at several things that I thought would lead me to glory, but I leave it as it is here, there are several ideas I have right now and given the right time and place will implement it.

Technology uhm All Niche Based Blogger

I have been a writer by birth, I came out with a pen and paper in hand. Just kidding. I have always loved writing, since my school days where I wrote essays and more. The liking has since grown into me, but nevertheless did not mean that I was good at it.

I started blogging roughly more than two years ago in 2006 and have since never looked back, I own and edit my technology blog called Techie Buzz, A place to know your technology head on, along with keeping a place where I can crib without making someone lose their balance. I also write professionally for several blogs, the most known of them is Web Log Tools Collection and have also imparted Blogging tips at Blogging Tips.

Other than that I can’t write or no one else want’s to hire me yet.

Yea What Else

Well I do much more than a average person can do, but what the heck why should I tell it to a unknown person, read the get in touch with me section to contact me and know more about me.

Getting in Touch With Me

I was surprised you stuck so long and are really looking to contact me, but here are some ways in which you can get in touch with me.

Well that about says things you should know about me, before you can actually know me. If you want to keep in touch use one of the ways I suggested, the last one is for those who outright hate me or my existence.

Note: If you came here looking for my resume, hard luck, if I want I will send it to you, it’s on a very secret location right on this site and I will definitely make it aware to you, when I think I should.