Ishwar Joshi Awalgaonkar has been a Bhakta (Devotee) since having a blissful experiencing at the age of 10 while growing up in Bharat (India). He has had several such experiences since then as he lived in India, Dubai & USA. He is a Hindu and has read the holy books of all the major world religions: Gita, Vedas, Upanishads (Hinduism), Bible (Christianity), Quran (Islam), Dhammapada (Buddhism), Akaranga Sutra (Jainism), Tanakh (Judaism), Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism), Tao te Ching (Taoism), Kojiki (Shinto) & Zend Avesta (Zoroastrianism). Ishwar is a Software Engineering Manager for Google in California. Before this, he was a Software Engineer at Microsoft, Ericsson, Symantec, Anheuser Busch and other companies in Dubai and India. He also co-founded several startups where he filed patents and built unique and innovative Apps. Ishwar majored in English and History. He has read and self-studied the book ‘The Art of Computer Programming’ which is among the top twenty scientific monographs of the last century along with The Collected Papers of Einstein. He does Transcendental Meditation, Pranayama and Yoga. He has run a Full Marathon of 26.2 miles / 42.1 kms, earned a Red belt in Tae Kwon Do and climbed Mt. Rainier 14,400 feet. In his spare time these days, he likes to ride his SuperSport Motorcycle. Ishwar is happily married to Pallavi and they live with their two daughters Samriddhi and Samraadni in the San Francisco Bay Area.
