DevOps Leader.
Engineering Mentor.
17+ Years of Building
Things That Scale.

My career started in 2008 in the unsexy world of telecom billing automation. I was a fresh Computer Engineering graduate and the work was not glamorous — but the systems had to keep running, and the discipline that required never left me. Fifteen years and five companies later, it still shapes how I think about software: if it breaks at the wrong moment, someone pays a real price.

The shift from engineer to leader happened at Amdocs in 2021 — my first formal people management role. The most useful thing I learned was that the technical decisions are rarely the hard part. The hard part is creating an environment where engineers raise problems early rather than late, and making sure the right people have the right information before the wrong thing happens.

I started mentoring because I know exactly what it feels like to need guidance and not have it. When Symantec was acquired by Broadcom, I went through the hardest stretch of my career — eight years in one place had built comfort and eroded momentum, and the uncertainty about what came next was real. I did not know whether to stay in development or move into DevOps. The struggle was genuine: desperation, self-doubt, and no clear path forward. My friend and mentor Shyamendra — we both started our careers together at Convergys in 2008 — helped me find direction, make the transition, and land at Amdocs. His guidance was not generic — it was specific, timely, and grounded in the actual realities of the Indian engineering market. It changed the trajectory. That experience is why I mentor now, and it is the only standard I hold myself to: specific enough to act on, grounded enough to trust.

I believe the distance between where an engineering team is and where they need to be is almost always shorter than it looks — and almost always a people and process problem before it is a technology problem. I have spent seventeen years proving that in different organizations, different domains, and different scales. The proof is in the numbers.