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Why Moving Abroad Changes How You See Home
Distance has a way of bringing the place you came from into sharper focus.
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From a small town in Odisha to a new life in Ireland
The long version — born in Bhanjanagar, shaped across Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, an engineer who worked through Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand, now a student in Dublin. Each chapter carries its own colour.
Odisha & India roots
Where I learned belonging, resilience and the value of where you come from.
Education & early work
Where curiosity turned into building things — and discipline became a habit.
Corporate years
Where I learned how to work, adapt and reinvent my own skills.
Ireland & Europe
Where I am learning to start again, alone, and to see home from a distance.
The road so far
A life told in chapters
1998 · Roots
Born in Bhanjanagar
Bhanjanagar, Odisha, India
Where the story begins — a small town in Odisha that quietly shaped my earliest sense of the world.
1999–2005 · Roots
Primary schooling
Aska, Odisha, India
Early school years in Aska — the first classrooms, friendships and the shape of childhood memory.
2005–2015 · Roots
Schooling till 10th
De Paul School, Berhampur, Odisha, India
A decade of growing up in Berhampur — the city that quietly became a part of who I am.
2015–2017 · Education
Higher secondary (12th)
Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
The intense pre-university years by the coast in Visakhapatnam — study pressure and the years of becoming.
2017–2021 · Education & early work
B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, Odisha, India
Engineering studies back in Berhampur — and the years I first started building things beyond the classroom.
- State Representative for Odisha at SDNx
- Junior Robotics Engineer at Helium Learning Labs (New Delhi)
- Founded WebArtists India — digital development and branding for Indian and US clients
2021–2022 · Early career
Planning Engineer at KEC
Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, India
The discipline of large-scale work in the salt deserts of Kutch — deadlines, sites and the heat of the Rann.
2022–2025 · Corporate work
Software Engineer at Hexaware Technologies
Chennai & Dehradun, India
The corporate chapter — moving into software across Chennai and a softer, hill-held stretch in Dehradun.
2025–2026 · Ireland & Europe
MSc student in Dublin
Dublin City University, Ireland
The leap abroad — MSc in Electronics and Computing with IoT at DCU, and the start of a whole new chapter.
On the map
The places that shaped me
Eight towns and cities, across India and Ireland, that each left a mark.
BhanjanagarAskaBerhampurVisakhapatnamBhujChennaiDehradunDublin
“Starting again is not the same as starting over.”
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