Briefly:

Narayan is the resident Systems Engineer for Raincity Studios, running the servers for Bryght Hosting. He also manages the servers powering drupal.org and its sub-sites. He got into computers in his later teenage years, ending a desire to be an African game warden before that. After dropping out of high school, attending a community college at 15 and finishing his degree at 22, he now lives in Portland, Oregon and is less boring than you might think.

Narayan was a biker at OSU and continues to enjoy biking around Portland. He also enjoys mountain biking, hiking, playing pickup basketball and live music.

Factoids:

Favorite City to Visit?

New Delhi

Secret, super hero power?

Hill climbing on a racing bike after server migrations

Why Drupal?

Community and a commitment to technical excellence in web development.

Beverage of choice?

Deschutes Obsidian Stout

Where/when did you first get online?

Electric sheep from a black and white apple mac in my father's office.

Website you actually go to often – for fun not work?

digg.com

Hobby you hardly ever talk about?

Photography

Fave dish (that you can actually cook)?

Thai Red Curry

Fave “analog” tool?

Wok

Another profession would you like to try?

Fireman

Favorite artistic era/movement?

Impressionism

What do you “bring to the table” at Raincity?

Sarcasm

Your best tech skill?

Patience

Country you want to visit that you’ve never been to?

Italy

Where’d you go to school? Why?

Oregon State University, I like Beavers...

Three words of advice to younger developers?

Don't talk about working, work.

Fave Drupal module?

Project module

A fave Drupal site?

drupal.org

At home: video games or movies?

Movies