Sri. Sridharan Sankaran is a mridangam vidwan and also an IT professional.  He is a Principal Consultant at TCS.  He is a student of Sri Mannargudi Iswaran.  He used to be the asthana percussion vidwan, when he spent 7 years overseas on a TCS assignment at Sydney, Australia, where he accompanied a number of renouned artistes.  Shri Sridharan is a multifaceted personality, in that he also plays the violin (Shri C N Chandra Sekharan was his guru), a great connoiseur of music, runs a club called Gaanapriya, and is incharge of administration of Sangeethapriya.org.