About

Hi, thanks for visiting my blog!

I am Madhukara Putty. My formal backgrounds are in physics and computational fluid dynamics.

I am convinced that having the ability to develop quality software is an important skill in any area of knowledge today. Therefore, since late 2019, I am making conscious attempts to improve my programming skills. One day, I hope to be good enough to contribute to opensource scientific software.

Most recently, I was part of a space tech start up located in Bengaluru, India. Before that, I was a freelance science journalist who wrote popular science articles based on research papers published in top science journals. Please visit my Contently page for a list of articles I wrote as a freelancer.

Before my freelance gig, I was part of the awesome team that ran the Science Media Centre at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. I was responsible for content related to physics, math, and engineering, while our Chief Editor, Sandhya Sekhar, looked after the biological sciences. We built a fantastic team of writers who wrote about 300 articles in the first year of operation. It was great fun, but at some point, some of us decided to move on and pursue our other interests.

That’s my story so far! I hope you enjoy my blog :)

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