Stepping into 30th Year

Stepping into my 30th year in the IT Industry… Looking back, reminiscing about the day I started my career in a small company (still my favourite company “Computer Power” ) as a System Engineer?and coding?in “Clipper Summer 87.

My first company, Computer Power, gave me extensive experience of developing products viz Sales, Service, Financial Accounting as a suite developed for the automobile sector travelled across India to sell and implement the same.

TVS Suzuki dealers were our primary focus and then expanded to four wheeler dealers across India.?Traveling to Andaman (my first flight travel) to support our Core Banking Solution implemented in Andaman & Nicobar State Cooperative Bank, the bank treated me like a VIP visiting them to ensure that their operations are running smoothly.?I carry 5.4 inches floppy boxes, the driver who picks me up from the hotel did not even allow me to carry that small box.???

After 3.5 years of rich experience from Computer Power, it was time to move on to the next destination of my journey. I joined Polaris in Credit Card processing unit with Pro*C and Oracle.?There, I learned complete Credit Card Processing from Application processing till card embossing, Sale (POS), Merchant payment etc. It was a short stint in Polaris of about 1 year all because there was one talented recruiter from HCL??who convinced me to join HCL in 1998. Oracle ERP was introduced with Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5 in GUI, we were all given training in HCL Noida office in parallel our H1 -B visa processing started.???

But for some reason, the deployment of our team was delayed, and I was deputed to Malaysia Multipurpose Bank as Pro*C expert and then BSN Commercial Bank to develop their core system.?

I came back to India and joined Mascot Systems in 2000, seeing the company growing from 160 M to 1.2B and being part of the Global Delivery team delivering and supporting applications for fortune 10 companies.

Worked in this great company for 17 years, part of GE Account handled projects across GE Aviation, GE Capital, GE Energy, GE Medical, GE NBC, GE Rail, GE Treasury, Truck Leasing.?Though I continued in the same company, the company names have changed from Mascot to IGATE to IGATE-Patni and finally taken over by Capgemini. Experienced both acquiring (unique acquisition of 3 times larger company, Patni) and acquired by Capgemini.

My entrepreneur bug was constantly hitting me once I completed some personal responsibilities and started my dream company Znifa Technologies and successfully running for 5th year now.

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Oh…. Looks like it is going as my resume….?Let me change

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In the last 30 years, I have seen a lot of transformation in terms of IT Adoption, Technology evaluation, IT impact on the businesses across the domain. Lots of innovations to stay in the market…?Mobile has changed the way the Banking, Telecommunication, Travel & Tourism, Retail, Entertainment and Hospitality Industry.?

?In the IT Sector, on one hand, the cost is increasing significantly across the board and on the other hand customers wanted to keep their cost under control or lesser year on year.?So obviously, IT must innovate more and more, the outcomes were increased in product adoption, innovative business models started with outsourcing to low-cost countries (offshoring) fixed price, T&M, Outcome Based etc.,

The scaling is the key, the entertainment industry is early and successful adoption of scaling. SaaS significantly reduced the cost of ownership of Software Application and Cloud reduced the cost of Hardware resulting the entire dynamics of IT has changed significantly.

Since the data produced per second has improved dramatically, businesses must use this data meaningfully by adopting Big Data, Data Analytics hence the role “Data Scientist” became very popular.?As the threat increases, Cyber Security became more inevitable, and many tools started coming in the market to automate the evidence collection near real time and make the auditing process more convenient.?AI and IOT is another area and buzz word in the market now. We did this IoT during my days with GE Aircraft Engine as a Remote Diagnosis project to capture the data from the sensors in the aircraft and predict the fault and ensure that that was corrected, carried out the same with Rail Engines.?Nowadays the sensor has become cheaper, the IoT emerging as a leading technology.

We developed applications which are tightly coupled but nowadays we develop the Microservices Based application wherein we develop once and are able to access within the organization and outside as well. This has significantly reduced the cost of development and maintenance.?

Lots of new titles emerged viz., Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Cloud Architect, Chief Information Security Officer etc.., as IT expanded across the width and depth of any industry.?

Being in IT for 30 years, there is lots of learning as we work with multiple domain different customers across the globe. I could connect the impact on of a domain on another (eg. Logistics on Retail, Retail on Manufacturing etc.,) and happy to be in this Industry and provide solutions which made all our customers successful…?

Of course, a new company demands a lot of attention, planning, and hard work, but everything’s worth it when you see it blooming.

Journey continues to watch and be part of the newer innovations and adoptions???from my own company.