We have all learned about great minds like Einstein, Socrates, Kernighan and at some point thought to ourselves… this is unachievable. We are surprised and left speechless when someone among us dares to take that leap towards the sky and grab a handful stars of their own.
Dr. Vijay Gokhale, a doctor by education, a technical director of a computer training institute and of a software development company by profession and a astrologer by hobby and a teacher due to his passion to share knowledge is one such man. He is widely respected for his generous teaching and rigorous testing of each of his students.
In contrast to the intimidating and unreachable personalities that we call geniuses, Dr. Gokhalé can be described in one word: inspiring. Despite his depth and breadth of knowledge, his approach to teaching is like that of a child – full of awe and wonder, exploring little details of the subjects that are often overlooked. Lectures often contain references to books, movies and life itself — because he is a staunch believer that knowledge is interrelated. Every lecture leaves the students wanting to learn more, and this fire of curiosity drives them forward to learn on their own, beyond the stipulated syllabus.
Gokhale sir earned a bachelor’s degree in medicine and has been treating people and training prospective doctors on subjects like anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, medicine and surgery for over 15 years.
He has a strong background in performing arts through his long interest in theatre and drama. That also converted into an interest in movie production, and more specifically: post-production. Gokhale sir holds seven certificates from Apple Computers. He is the first Indian to be awarded “Final Cut Studio Master Pro” by Apple.
On technical front, Dr. Gokhalé has been working in the software industry for past decade on a multitude of technologies and platforms and also on low level systems programming. Dr. Gokhalé is Technical Director of Pi Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. And Sunbeam Institute of Information Technology Pvt. Ltd.
He teaches the following subjects at C-DAC’s DAC and WiMC Courses and at Astromedicomp:
- Win32 SDK Programming
- COM/DCOM Programming
- .NET Architecture
- UNIX System Design
- Embedded Systems, embedded VC++, PocketPC SDK and uCLinux
Gokhale sir has authored hundreds of software applications, among the notable ones are an educational operating system based on UNIX that works on x86 and ARM architectures; a predictive astrology system based on traditional and Krishnamurthy paddhati. He has written hardware/device drivers and Linux kernel modules. He has written applications on various operating systems that include Windows, Linux, MacOS X and WindowsCE and Windows Mobile. Gokhale sir has worked extensively on nearly all Win32 subsystems – the services below the user-interface layer that make Windows operating system work. He has written plug-ins, small utilities for Internet Explorer and Outlook. He has also written applications that convert media files like music and video from one format into other – by implementing encoding and decoding algorithms for formats such as WAV, AVI, MPEG.
Gokhale sir has another hobby – of creating an Operating System Zoo on his computer. He has installed almost all notable operating systems on one computer, an adventure in itself.