Shri is an infrequent writer for Wikipedia but a frequent reader. Shri retired from a career as a computer professional with experience in hardware design, hypervisor and OS design, application design, computer security, and HPC research. Shri is an amateur photographer, musician, cook, and traveler, and was a Scoutmaster for Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Chief Seattle Council Troop 573, Woodinville WA. With members of his troop, Shri was an adult leader on a Philmont trek and two Northern Tier treks. Shri has graduated from Purdue University, School of Electrical Engineering, and University of California-Berkeley, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Shri has worked at:
- Klein Drugs, University City, MO, delivering pharmacy orders after school;
- the laboratory of Phillip D. Stahl in the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), washing glassware after school;
- the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Engineering summer programming courses as an assistant instructor, using primarily Fortran IV and WATFIV, and the next year using MUMPS;
- the Biomedical Computer Laboratory (BCL) of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, (ref. Jerome Cox), using MUMPS;
- Artronix Medical Systems on CAT scanners and systems software, using assembly language and MUMPS;
- Bell Labs on chip- and computer-system design of hardware and software;
- United Air Lines and COVIA (now Galileo CRS) on airport and travel agency automation systems, including ORD Terminal 1;
- DEC contributing to and managing work on the Ultrix, DEC OSF/1 for Alpha, and Windows NT for Alpha operating systems, especially file systems;
- Compaq (briefly, as the combined result of acquisitions and downsizing);
- Amazon.com managing distribution (fulfillment) center software and customer service applications;
- IBM managing xSeries hardware, firmware, virtualization, security, and software; and
- AMD managing and working on virtualization, reliability, and computer architecture research for HPC supercomputing.
Shri retired in 2021. As of 2022, Shri has 46 patents granted by the U.S. PTO and additional international patents in the EU and China.