Kaushik Gopalan

Around the same time that the world saw its first supersonic passenger flight, I started my life with a bang (pun not intended!) in Madras, India. I was named Kaushik a.k.a the angry sage Vishwamitra who somewhat digressed from his sagely duties to start my lineage. The association ends there, for anger and me are poles apart!

Born into an Iyengar Vaishnavite family, I adore my traditions and culture. My favourite shrine being in the city of Srirangam.

My childhood was truly global. Moving from Chennai to the tiny island of Singapore, I would call this home for the next 12 years of my life. Apart from attending school, I also took violin and vocal Carnatic music lessons at the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society.  High school years saw me back in my beloved Chennai where I attended Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Senior Secondary School  I then ended up in West Lafayette, Indiana and attended Purdue University for the Computer Science program. My love for Carnatic music also continued at Purdue, with my involvement in ICMAP – Indian Classical Music Association at Purdue. A co-op and later full time offer with Procter & Gamble saw me move to the river city of Cincinnati. P&G was to form the basis of my professional life. I am now working for Hewlett Packard in the Bay Area.