Sudipta Mukherjee was born in Kolkata and migrated to Bangalore, the IT capital of India, to assume the position of a Senior Research Engineer in a renowned research lab. He is an Electronics Engineer by education and a Computer Engineer/Scientist by profession and passion. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He has been working with .NET Generics since they first appeared in the .NET Framework 2.0.

He has a keen interest in data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing ,programming language, tools development, and game development.

His first book on data structure using the C programming language has been well received. Parts of the book can be read on Google Books at http://goo.gl/pttSh. The book was also translated into Simplified Chinese available on Amazon at http://goo.gl/lc536.

He is an active blogger and an open source enthusiast. He mainly blogs about programming and related concepts at sudipta.posterous.com. Inspired by several string processing methods in other languages, he created an open source string processing framework for .NET, available for free at stringdefs.codeplex.com.

He lives in Bangalore with his wife. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected] and via Twitter at @samthecoder.