Self bio

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I am Gautam, a 17 year old, XIth grader, g33k, obsessed with coding and photography. Anything related to technology interests me, whether it be artificial intelligence or open source projects like WordPress or creating a small bot. You can contact me here. I’ve tried to document year-wise bits of my life below. ;)

’11 | Class: X | Sweet Sixteen

  • Google Code-in ’11 winner
  • WordCamp Jabalpur Speaker
  • DatumDroid Developer
  • Discover I Co-founder
  • Technothlon – National rank 234
  • bbPress 2.0 Plugins: bbP Views, bbP Topic Views

In this year, I also started to take part in presentation competitions and realised that making a presentation really takes up a lot of time. I took part in two, one on Sustainable Environment and another on Substance Abuse. Though I didn’t win any prizes, but it was a good experience as I developed speaking skills and eventually spoke at WordCamp Jabalpur. :)

2010

  • Google Code-in ’10 winner
  • bbPress Plugins: Excluding the ones from ’09
  • House prefect & class topper in International Informatics Olympiad & IT for the session 2009-2010
  • Excellence Award in IT

2009

2008

I was yet again re-introduced to WordPress (really, I’ve never been introduced to Joomla or Drupal). This time it was OrkutPlus.net for which I made Orkut bots and toolkits (no more live, you might still get a copy of the bots though, uploaded on Rapidshare but they won’t be functional). The bots were written in Visual Basic and then the Orkut world shifted to PHP because it was faster – the server could make faster connections with Orkut than the user’s computer. I have almost forgotten Visual Basic, but I still code in PHP and that’s the main language I know. OrkutPlus needed forums, so we settled with bbPress. I tried porting a social bookmarking plugin named SexyBookmarks to bbPress and released it as Social It in 2009, and that’s how I got on with it. I also got an excellence in Information Technology from the school.

2007

This was the year when we shifted to Gurgaon and I changed my school to Amity International School, Sector 46. From my previous school, I also got a scholar for the session 2006-2007. I started a hacking community named Hacking D Worldd… (case, spell and dot-sensitive) on Orkut. I remember doing every possible thing on the internet for that community. And that’s one of the reasons that I’m security-aware while writing my programs. I was re-introduced to WordPress when I was blogging for a friend. I saw the administration interface and remembered that I’ve seen something like that. I saw that it is powered by WordPress, something which I had used before. I didn’t know that you could actually have a site that is powered by WordPress and hosted on your own servers. The blog’s life ended soon. I started taking part in cyber/tech-related olympiads that were held in my school, and won a bronze medal in International Informatics Olympiad.

2006

This was the year of when I have a certificate of me winning something in computers. It was an inter school logo programming competition held in Guru Nanak Public School, and my team (Shobhan and me) came first in it.

2005

I think it was this year when I actually had my first blog – livetech.wordpress.com, and my introduction to WordPress. I didn’t know the laws and I generally used to copy paste the content from other blogs. Then I got bored with it and deleted the blog. Till this year I had been getting various prizes in group singing, calligraphy, art, etc (things at which I’m not good now). I also used to read various Roald Dahl books and my school, Bal Bharati, Pitam Pura had a good reading challenge. You would get more marks in your English test if you read fictions and answered the questions asked by the teachers on that book.

’02 | Class: I

I got to know about email and asked my dad to set up an email account for me. My first email id was on Hotmail and my father used to narrate me the story of how the guy who wrote Hotmail got rich by Microsoft acquiring his service for around 40$ per user (as he used to narrate it). He quickly setup an email in the night, then we slept. When he was off to office the next morning, I opened up the computer, figured out what were sign in, sign up (I don’t know why they didn’t call it register), compose mail (I didn’t know the meaning of the word compose, found out when I actually clicked it and saw some textboxes including cc: bcc: etc.). I soon switched over to Yahoo! mail and used to hang out in Y! Messenger chat rooms. At that time we used to have a dialup connection.

2000

2000 was probably the year that I had my real first encounter with computers when it came into our home. Since then I’ve developed an interest in technology and computers. The following years, I usually used to play RoadRash, Duke Nukem, Claw, Mario, Midtown Madness and some others I can’t remember.

1999

My parents tell me that I got a prize in drag and drop on a computer. I really don’t remember doing that though. I even don’t remember more than 10 days of the two years I went to Mothers Pride, a playschool for kids.

1995

20 October: Gautam Gupta is born in New Delhi, India.

Testimonials

WordPress and bbPress Champ. One coder who believes in – Impossible is nothing. Using his customizations and plugins with no problems what so ever!

- Porush Jain, SportsKeeda

41 Comments

  1. Harsh Agrawal | July 10, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Hey Gautam
    Best of luck and good you have portfolio website now. I have seen your work and IMHO people have all the reason to hire you.
    Best of luck with all new ventures..
    Regards
    Harsh

    Reply
  2. Rahul | July 17, 2009 at 8:44 am

    Best Wishes.

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  3. Suresh | July 19, 2009 at 5:02 am

    Hi Gautam, I am really impressed to see your blog site.
    Wish you and your web site a grand success.
    Regards,
    Suresh.

    Reply
  4. Karthikeyan | August 4, 2009 at 2:33 am

    I wish you a great success for you dude.

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  5. Mr.Hyd | August 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Best of luck Gautam :-)

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  6. upasana | August 30, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    its really nice n unbelievable
    all d very best mr james bond
    wid regards
    upasana

    Reply
  7. Porush Jain | March 8, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Dude thanks you did not tell me that u were in 8th when i gave you the project :D … All the best for ur future! …

    Reply
  8. Navneet | May 11, 2010 at 7:31 am

    Good going Gautam

    Reply
  9. Kiran Vaka | June 27, 2010 at 2:32 am

    Hello Gautam,
    I saw your comment on TechCrunch, and came to see your website. Good going, and All the Best!
    Are you on Facebook? If so it would be good to connect.

    Reply
  10. Satya Prakash | August 14, 2010 at 1:48 am

    Hi, got you from intenseDebate plugin on WP site.
    Nice that you develop and contribute to open source community

    Reply
  11. SATISH | January 13, 2011 at 3:14 am

    Hey Gautam,

    I had seem you many times on bbpress forum, but never knew that you are 15 years old(young!).

    All the best for your future..

    Reply
  12. Shekhar | January 28, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    Hi Gautam,
    You r going very fast dude. You don’t know me but as U have maked ur fan list. I m one of them…Keep it Up….

    Reply
  13. Puneet Sahalot | May 22, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    Hey Gautam! Accidentally landed upon your site and then remembered that I read about you on Devil’s Workshop but didn’t know about the awesome work you have done for WP and bbPress.

    Good going bro. Wish you a good luck! :) Keep rocking!

    Reply
  14. Naveen Gautam | July 5, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    Welldone Gautam !!! I am really impressed. Great job man.

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  15. Ramaswamy | September 26, 2011 at 2:21 am

    Hey nice to find one of the youngest blogger. best of luck for your future…

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  16. Prabhakaran | November 8, 2011 at 3:29 pm

    Hey Gautam, u r doing great ventures and projects, Best of luck for all upcoming works bro :)

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  17. Sanjit Chohan | February 15, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Congrats Gautam .. It was nice reading about your and i am proud i was with you among one of the old group OUG :)

    All the best for your future :)

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  18. shashank | February 24, 2012 at 11:04 am

    Dude you are going great ! Wish i could grow that fast ! anyways will try to have a techie kiddo lyke u:)
    All the best for great future ahead man!

    Reply
  19. Sajit | March 3, 2012 at 11:39 am

    Darned impressive. And thanks for the github links.

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  20. Madhu | May 23, 2012 at 2:06 am

    You are awesome. I am proud to see an Indian here with awesome qualities!

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  21. Aditya Chintha | June 28, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    Many beginners are inpired by you like me, so keep up you work and update you bio to inspire more! :)

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  22. Rooban | July 13, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    Well done, I really inspired to see your blog so nice, Have a great future:) all the best

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  23. Rahul Sharma | November 23, 2012 at 10:02 pm

    Hi Gautam,

    I got to know about you on GSFIndia.com. You have great future friend :) good to see such talented chaps in india. Well Gautam, I am passionate about entrepreneurship and currently working on my startup and looking for technical co-founder. I need a guy with the qualities which you have.

    Reply
  24. Mark Birnbaum | December 18, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    Very well done and its good to see you growing with such quality skills is something awesome… keep up the good and hard work

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  25. Greg | December 24, 2012 at 4:12 am

    Really dig your design here Gautam! How have you been so strong in coding? And, do you recommend setting up a bbPress forum or some other provider…?

    Reply
  26. Vijendra | December 30, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Hey Gautam
    Best of luck and good you have portfolio website now

    Reply
  27. Miranda | May 2, 2013 at 6:52 pm

    I saw you have developed an android OCR app using tesseract. I am now doing the same thing. I think you are brilliant at this young age.

    Reply

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