Books are a great source of knowledge for anyone. I like reading books in the same way I like to discuss with people on specific topics. The rate at which I read books has decreased dramatically in the last years. Never-the-less I have a pretty good collection of technical, health and psychological books.
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I love travelling and meeting people with different ideas and openions. Going to different places for me is more of relxation, talking to local people, knowing the history and culture of the place. It's very interesting to analyze and understand the different cultures and associated behaviors. I have been to most corners of Europe and USA. In future i want to explore Australia, Egypt, Greece and China. It's a shame that i haven't seen many places in India, but i will for sure.
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- I am working with the Utilities division in San Francisco's office. Even though it's a short time I spent with Oracle, I have to say it has a GREAT sales force for all the products. They do a FANTASTIC of selling the product. I could never imagine (even the great) products reaching the customers without these guys.
- With Pramati, I had changed the entire life of technology. Previously I was working on Automobile Application Software and with Pramati I started working on the AJAX, SOA and J2EE technologies. It took a great deal of mindset to change when I moved from Bosch to Pramati as the company size, culture and technologies were quite different. I was very fortunate to work with a startup client JackBe, who was focusing on the Mashup technologies. I had a wonderful chance to do the entire tool chain for myself and even doing the market research part of it.
- Working with Pramati/JackBe gave me a whole new perspective on the startups, culture, vc funding, due diligence process, etc... Unlike corporates, each thing that you do goes out into the market in few months of time and you get to do a small part of Marketing, Product Management, Demos and Sales functionalities which otherwise you would not even touch.
- Times change and so are your priorities. Moving to Oracle Inc. was a big step that I took at the beginning of the year 2008.
- Robert Bosch is very famous in the German Automobile Industry. I was recruited in the Application Development division of the Robert Bosch, Bangalore, when they came to my university (CUSAT). I have to say that I started my career at Bosch. I was with Bosch for almost 6.5 years and had to take a hard decision to move to USA and moved to Pramati Inc in the year 2006. This organization gave me all the opportunities I could ask for and in a small amount of time I had a tremendous growth. I started as a Junior Software Engineer and I moved out of the company as Technical Manager. The manager's I worked with gave me great freedom and trusted me with most of the things that I did. I was exposed to all the aspects of the software development, project proposals, senior management interaction, and business analysis and project management.
- I spent few years at Bosch, Germany working with different customer teams of Daimler Chrysler, BMW and Fiat. Along with the Automobile technical aspects, I picked up the German Language and sensitivity to European culture. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay at Germany and would say is a very important part of my life and career.
- Leaving Bosch was a very painful aspect to me and many said it was foolish. But due to personal priorities I left Bosch to join Pramati Inc. at San Jose, USA.
Gemsoft Pvt Ltd, India
- This is my first company I worked with. It has around 10 developers and is a small company during the .COM bubble. No swiping system, no managers. But they had a small register at the security where we used to enter the time-in and time-out. Unfortunately this company does not exist now
- Literally ran servers on the 486 machines and had around 32MB RAM. If it's a developer, their machines had around 8-16MB of RAM. My company's director used to check the progress everyday and used to give me suggestions.
- At this time I was concentrating on Java, Servlets, ODBC, Oracle DB and XML. The only thing I was interested was in coding and generating nice user interfaces on HTML.