About

DISCLAIMER : This is my personal Blog, please treat it that way. All the views expressed here are my own and don’t necessarily reflect the views of the projects/companies I am involved in.

Thanks for visiting my blog. I think its about time i should restart blogging after I lost my old blog.

I intend to post regularly here. Stuff im doing….stuff im interested…or even something nice i come across while digging the web.

Btw im Sajal Kayan ~27 years old and into some software programing and web development. And I work as a freelancer don’t work for others am available to consult/collaborate on projects.

Ill put in more content here later (i promise).

Skills :-

  • Measuring and optimizing client-side website performance – Im available to consult on web speed issues.
  • SEO
  • HTML
  • BASIC programing – Had quite a good command on it while at school
  • Perl – Learning by experience
  • C/C++ – Learnt a little out of touch now
  • PHP – can copy paste and some hacking
  • Graphics – Light manipulation
  • Visual Basic, .NET and .NET compact framework programing – Back when I was a M$ fanboy
  • Joomla
  • WordPress
  • Drupal – Recently acquired interest.

My profiles on external sites

Portfolio :-

  • Some coding jobs at RentACoder
  • Personal Projects – Will try to release to public once presentable (didn’t even name them yet)
    • A perl script to automatically get wordpress posts, gets keywords from Yahoo Tag suggest API and edits the posts. uses metaWeblog XML-RPC API
    • A perl script to check latest posts in wordpress and sends out tweets in the popular microbloging platform twitter. Searches the post for specific keywords and sends tweets accordingly.
    • A perl base web scraper to log into a particular website, uses cookies and fetches pages then fetches new links, scrapes contents off new pages and posts to wordpress. NOTE: I’m not palgarising content.
  • BarCampBangkok – The first BarCamp in Thailand
  • thaindian.com (Current) – A website for Indians in Thailand
    • Partner and Co-Founder
    • Business development
    • Community Building and PR
    • Setup and maintain server
    • Making and maintaining the website (Joomla + wordpress + perl + php)
    • Occasional writing
    • Photographer
    • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
    • In charge of online monetization
  • Adopt A Tree Today (current) – A new concept to reduce global warming
    • Technical Lead + webmaster
  • thaivisa.com – Expat forum in Thailand – Largest online expatriate community in the world
    • Setup Joomla website
    • Setup and maintain new server for few months
    • Setup and ran the sms service at sms.thaivisa.com
    • Super Moderator for a few months