A journey of a lifetime
Interests: I love travel, music, philosophy, playing shuttle, & cooking. One of my favourite trips is to Africa's Serengeti plains to witness the great migration of the wildebeests. A very memorable hike I did was the "Maunawili Demonstration Trail" in Hawaii -- where I along with my team kept going in spirals trying to find the trail path, and later we did and returned just in time for dinner. I derive lot of joy by involving myself with with non-profits that aid with education for Children and Humanity. I love to share my knowledge through writings in my blog and generate more insight.
Engineering Leader
Build & Make Things Happen! Work is an expression of my joy. Two things matter to me the most-
Build code
Talk to customers.
I accelerate dev productivity & run horizontal programs at scale. I bring years of experience working in Google, et al where I learnt so much about scale. At my startup, I learned to do things that don't scale and learnt so much about PMF (product-market-fit and MVP as a process). I infuse positivity and energy in my engagements. I am optimistic.
I am oriented towards the overall benefit of the company (Birkman Profile Test)
Natural Leader / Organization Builder (Myers and Briggs Personality Type)
Favourite Quote: "The important things in life are not things..."
At Safari in Africa for 3 weeks
Transforming Orgs
I have spearheaded several production launches at scale at Google in Enterprise/Apps (Vault, Message Continuity, LogSearch), Traditional Ads/AudioAds, Cloud Platform (1st Google Cloud Region), Census & Rabbit (Performance debugging and distributed trace collection systems) in Storage Infrastructure, and most recently ran a horizontal program -- $1/2 B Diskless program Google-Wide. At VMware today, I designed and executed company-wide programs that accelerate VMware ability to meet customer's need. In addition, as Director of TPM programs for Modern Application Platform Business Unit, I manage a global TPM team spanning the USA, Canada, Germany, India, China.
Software Developer
As a software developer, I have contributed to several products in the industry: from Informix Agent Messaging library (like Java-RMI), Informix Universal Server with Web Forms to Oracle Discover for Java, EJB in Oracle App Server, to ArcGIS Server Enterprise ADF and ESRI's Cloud-based GIS. I have built mobile and web apps for my startup using popular webframeworks, AI pipelines, and sql-no sql databases on top of Google Cloud.
Code Plumber
As as founder and software plumber, From Big-Tech to Startup: My last few years of startup has also equipped me more lean skills (both financially and process wise) by building what customers want and at times to do things that don’t scale initially. I ran my own start-up medtatva building chest X-Ray solutions to detect diseases early using deep learning.
At Google Garage leading a vision workshop
With my elder boy at Cape Cod
With my younger son amongst paddy fields of Kerala
MS Computer Science, West Virginia University
Thesis: Automated Support for Software Project Management and Measurement (using WWW)
Note: Research supported in part by NASA-IVV Cooperative Research and Concurrent Engineering Center, NASA-IVV Facility Fairmont). Used at NASA Earth Observatory System. Other Alpha customers included CERN, Lawrence Livermoore Lab, CNET etc. Submitted findings at the IEEE Fifth Workshop on Enabling Technologies, Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises at Stanford University.
BE Computer Science and Engineering (Hons), College Of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University.
Thesis: Application of Fuzzy Neural Networks to Medical Diagnosis