Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

   We were a bunch of trainees listening to Mr FC Kohli at TCS in 1999. He asked if we had questions – and one of my friends asked “Our title now is Assistant Systems Engineer trainee. Our competitors give way nicer titles at our level. Why can’t we be called consultants?”. Mr Kohli’s responseContinue reading “Oh those corporate titles”

This is the first Sapphire I am missing in a very long time – probably in a decade or so. But thanks to the high quality live streaming video provided by SAP, and twitter – I felt I did not miss much . I woke up early, fed my dogs, brewed some coffee and satContinue reading “SAPPHIRENOW 2015 Day 1 – Bill McDermott and The Run Simple Keynote”

April 15, 2015 proved to have quite a trifecta effect on me 1. Tax day – As always, IRS have taken their annual pound of flesh from my checking account 2. Vishu – a traditional festival of my home state of Kerala, marking the start of zodiac calendar 3. Announcement that I will be leaving MongoDBContinue reading “So long MongoDB, and thanks for all the fish !”