• Poetry

    Attrition of the Heart

    March 19, 2025 - By 

    Love I will not,I said to my heart,For it hurts a lot,When loved ones depart. Why this weird decision?  To me you may ask.To forget the loss of a loved one,  Tis not an easy task. To have a trusted confidant,  Is quite certainly a gain,But when they become distant,  The heart is filled with pain. Hearken to me now,This tale I will tell,Each sad farewell how,My joy did dispel. My close bro & office peer,Called me to the balcony away,Said the day is now near,When he’d leave for better pay. I was happy to have another friend,To me she…

  • Excellence

    Is Work Worship?

    March 3, 2025 - By 

    I became an excited dad when my daughter, Grace was born. Soon after that life-changing event, I remember the Dr having this conversation with my wife and me: Doc: “Your baby is going to get used to breastfeeding. Initially, it’s going to take longer. Because she will move her jaws about 4 to 5 times. Yet only 1 small drop of milk might come out.” Me: (Puzzled how a little kid is going to keep doing this.) Doc: “But don’t worry, this ‘exercise’ will strengthen her muscles. And soon she’ll get better at it. And the feeding times will get…

  • GenAI

    Agentic AI Predictions

    February 15, 2025 - By 

    Agentic AI is the buzzword of the season. My team and I’ve been solving customer problems using Agentic AI solutions for a while and here are some observations and predictions. Terminology To make it easier to converse related to Agentic AI solutions, we would need to speak the same language. Terms like ReAct, Self-critique, LLM-as-a-judge will become part of our vocabulary. The previous wave of LLM adoptions already achieved this with terms like RAG, CoT & Reasoning. We might see add-ons to the overall design language. This will be similar to how we don’t use a plain rectangle to represent…

  • Excellence

    Mentorship

    February 5, 2025 - By 

    Mentorship at the workplace is under-rated. The right mentor can accelerate your personal growth by years. I personally know of folks who have chosen the lower of 2 offers just because of a stellar mentor. I’ve been blessed by several such mentors throughout my career. Usually in a company, your reporting manager would be a few years senior to you. But every now and then, you might find yourself in a position where there is a big gap between your immediate manager and you. It could simply be the diversity of experience, the overall domain expertise or competence for executive…

  • GenAI

    Charting New Territory with GenAI

    January 4, 2025 - By 

    In the last couple of years, Generative AI (Gen AI) has swiftly made its mark in software engineering, infiltrating the daily workflows of developers, testers, and managers alike. But before we dive into today’s AI-fueled reality, let’s rewind a few years. Back then, everything was mostly manual, and, things were running just fine! Developers were coding, testers were testing, and project managers? Well, they were juggling all the chaos like seasoned pros. So, why Gen AI now? Were developers suddenly unable to write code? Did testers forget how to break software (in the best way possible)? Did managers lose track…

  • Poetry

    Game Plan

    November 23, 2024 - By 

    With nowhere else to go,     I gazed out the window, It had been a calm morning,     A gentle breeze now blowing. In the school nearby, rang a bell,     Change of periods, it did foretell, Tots spilled onto the ground adjoining,     2 groups of them, their teacher was forming. Arrange in a line both groups she did,     Handed a ball out to each first kid, Rules of the game, she began to explain,     Dribble to the end and come back again. With a whistle blow, she triggered the race,     The 2 first kids started…

  • Excellence

    Simple ways to get hard things done

    November 21, 2024 - By 

    In October of 2020 I made the following declaration “I hereby declare to attempt the AWS Data Analytics Specialty certification by Dec 2020. Over to you, now!“. I’m glad to announce that I kept my word and earned myself a 4th AWS certification in the process. I’ve already mentioned several of the simple tips that I use to keep myself on track for my goals in the previous article. I faced some obstacles during my preparation for this certification too. In this post I share with you some of the ways in which I overcame those obstacles. Deadline It’s surprising how much an approaching…

  • Excellence

    Teach the kids to walk

    November 21, 2024 - By 

    Ever tried to teach a kid to walk? How’d it feel? The above snap captures a moment in time when I was teaching my daughter Grace to walk. It was more or less me just holding on to her fingertips and keeping her safe, while her anxious feet did the exploration. Seems just like yesterday when she was merely a thought in my heart. Strange how time flies. Just feels like yesterday when I took up my very first job in Persistent Systems in the July of 2005. I myself was a “kid” at work and over a period of time I…