It started with Digger — the DOS game. Wondering how it worked led to BASIC,
then dBase III Plus during a BBA, and on to C, C++ and VC++ through DOEACC's A and B Level
programmes. The final-year project — a customer-support operations system in ASP.NET/C# —
was proposed to and approved by Microsoft's Student Project Program: the first
taste of building software real people depended on.
The first decade was .NET in the field. Doc Assistant, an EMR product in VB.NET
for Windows XP Tablet PCs at ICREA Infotech. RentSlicer.com, a rental-pricing
platform with Google Maps property search at Socrates Media. Then Wipro on the Microsoft account —
rebuilding VLKCSR, the product-key assignment tool used by Microsoft's own support
engineers, and designing the WCF middle tier for PReM, a master service for
product-relationship rules that scored 6.7 out of 7 on customer satisfaction.
In May 2009 came Bank of America in Hyderabad — and seventeen years since,
growing from senior developer to AVP, Technology. Incentive compensation across
eleven lines of business in CHECS. Corporate liquidity sweeps wired to the GBS mainframe.
Image-based cheque truncation for Hong Kong clearing. SWIFT international payments dragged out of
classic ASP into ASP.NET. C#, ASP.NET Core, Angular, WPF, SQL Server — production, at volume,
under audit.
Alongside it, the plumbing enterprises actually run on: Oracle Fusion Cloud across
ERP, HCM, SCM and Incentive Compensation — REST/SOAP integrations, FBDI data loads, ESS job
orchestration, BIP/OTBI reporting — stitched to Informatica IDMC pipelines for
end-to-end synchronisation, with Python automation around all of it.
Today the work sits at the seam where those systems meet the next era: LLM engineering —
advanced RAG with hybrid search and reranking, stateful agentic workflows in LangGraph, custom MCP
servers, applied to real enterprise and developer-productivity workflows. The thesis is simple:
the people who already know how enterprise data moves are the natural architects of enterprise
AI. Underneath it all, the same craftsmanship: xUnit/MSTest and TDD, CI/CD, Docker and
Kubernetes, and observable, production-grade systems as the baseline.
Off the clock: cooking, video games, and motorcycle rides out of Hyderabad.