• 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…