Time is a slippery little beast. It wriggles away right before your eyes. One minute you’re standing still, and the next—whoosh—eleven years have gone rocketing past like a firework with a very short fuse.
The beginning: a Walk and Talk
It all began with a simple “Walk and Talk.” Back in 2015, a frantic two-minute call from Srikanth Gundala changed everything. A dangerous chat with Nagaraja S, Naresh Kumar HK and Dayanand Mathapati convinced this Frontend Specialist (that’s me!) to take the plunge as a Modernization Consultant.
It was frightfully complex! We faced massive rewrites, tricky domains, and the wild unknowns of DDD. For eight months, we were summoned daily from 8 AM to 11 PM—Build! Test! Demo! It was a frantic, beautiful dance. After five years of sweat and thirty-five-hour War Room calls, we finally made it. The system survived!
A massive, swishwiffling thank you to Dhananjay Kumar, Susanta Mukherjee, Gaurav Gupta, Jeremy Price, Pushpendra Singh and Milenko Djuricin.
Frontline healthcare and platform engineering
Then came the mission to help frontline healthcare soldiers. They needed to adapt on the fly without thinking about the beastly machinery. The team took the challenge and—BOOM!—what started as a UI update ended up modernizing the entire core platform, birthing a Platform Engineering team. Gloriumptious!
Special thanks to Ujjal Sarma, Nikhil Rajan, Dimitri Manev, Jake Hamo, and Oleksiy Tereshchenko.
New geographies
Next, a walk-and-talk with Suresh Balla at the Microsoft AI Tour, with wise guidance from Basant Patawari, Krishna Murthy S, and Arvind Kucheria, set us making ripples in new geographies.
The Splendid Ride (in pictures)
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Apologies to the many others I missed—the Social Media Robots might banish me for spam! But we are all connected. The journey ahead with IBM looks more exciting than a golden ticket.
Here’s to the next adventure.