Kalyan varma biography sample

He also collaborates with wildlife scientists, conservationists, policy makers, activists and educators for protecting the nature. He has also worked in Yahoo for 3 years looking after application security and cryptography, and won Yahoo! Superstar award in He quit the company in to pursue his passion in photography. Your Name. Your Email. Update Maximum characters.

Type all the shown characters Can't see? Views: Bombay Gnanam Views: Sharing my knowledge of photography, wildlife, and people across various platforms including workshops and seminars is an important part of the work I do. Biography I am a wildlife photographer, filmmaker, naturalist and explorer dedicated to documenting wildlife and the environmental issues that define our times.

Random data points I currently live in Bangalore. Was born in Vizag. He was one of the core members of the annual conference FOSS. After college, he joined Yahoo! Kalyan was one of the early employees of their centre in India. He headed the application security division of Yahoo, where he would oversee the use of cryptography and secure web application across the web portal.

He won the superstar award in Yahoo, given to ten employees globally each year. At the end of he quit his job in order to pursue nature photography. He worked in Biligiriranga Hills for more than a year before he took up full time wildlife photography and filmmaking as a profession. Kalyan is involved in fostering community among photographers and wildlife conservationists since his early years.

In he, along with a team of photographers, founded India Nature watch , an online community which now has become the largest platform for wildlife photographers in Asia. In , he co-founded the slow-journalism initiative the Peepli project, which delves deep into the unreported, under-reported, themes that public discourse currently abdicates. Kalyan undertook a year long project to document human-elephant conflict in Karnataka and the relationship that shepherds share with arid regions of India.

He is one of the co-founders of Nature InFocus, an annual festival, portal, contest and a documentary production company which is one of the largest in the world, focussed on nature photography and conservation. Kalyan is best known for directing and producing the film Wild Karnataka which was the first nature film to be released in Cinema in India.

Kalyan has in the last decade dedicated himself to make wildlife documentaries. Contents move to sidebar hide. Varma completed his engineering in Bengaluru and started working at Yahoo. He enjoyed being a part of the startup scene, but was asked to move to the US by his company. The only option left for me was to be a people manager, which I did not want to do.

So, I decided to take a break and quit. Varma enjoyed painting in school and photography took over that role in his life. He was helped in his endeavour by the Soligas, the local communities, who have been living in these forests for centuries. We all grow up with the notion that people are bad for wildlife and we need protected areas. I no longer subscribe to that, and for me, what makes conservation work in India is the delicate relationship that people and local communities have.

With photography established as his true calling, Varma took the radical step of keeping his photographs free.