Victor Parmar

Victor started programming in grade 6 when his mother decided that she didn't want him around during summer vacations. He was thus duly siphoned off to the first opportunity that came along, which happened to be a programming course with one other person (who quit soon after joining). Thus began his programming career with him wrapping his head around the reason for semi-colons in Pascal, usage of caps-lock in COBOL and the point of Wordstar. He only survived because the teacher would let him stay after class to play solitare on her pc.

About a decade and a half later, Victor graduated with a Master's in Bio-informatics from McGill University in 2009 and has done stints in the financial and telecommunications sectors, with experience ranging from large organizations to small start-ups since graduation. He is currently working at the intersection of software architecture, healthcare interoperability and data modelling, with systems that have to survive contact with the real world.

He is passionate about technology, problem solving and traveling. He also enjoys cooking, keeping fit and learning new languages (he's fluent in 3 and can barely get by in another 3).

Oh and he is finally friends with semi-colons.