I started my work with Technology in 1986 as a student of science in north India. By 1989 I was working as a software tester on XENIX based Telegraph Switching Systems. My passion for high-end technology and the curiosity surrounding it brought me to the United States in 1989 to pursue higher studies. I completed my Master’s Degree in IS from Syracuse University in 1992 while working as a Lab Technician and a part-time instructor. My first job out of college was in Connecticut where I spent the next 10 years as a technology consultant for a VAR (Value-Added Reseller). For several years, I was worked on commercial Unix solutions such as AIX/RS 6000, HP Apollo/HP-UX for Sikorsky Helicopters and Smith and Wesson, respectively. Somewhere in-between I was deploying Netware and Notes solutions at Duracell, Black & Decker etc. By the time it was 1997 I was asked to work at Pfizer as an Infrastructure Architect to help design, manage and operate their Microsoft based Datacenter environment. I spent little over four years at Pfizer and that remains to be the place where I got a full flavor managing a “mission-critical” environment. My last gig on the east coast was working as a Standardization Architect tasked w/ interoperability and streamlining disparate infrastructures, storage solutions and platforms at United Healthcare. I moved to the west-coast and came to Microsoft in January 2003 to pursue my passion for high-end Datacenter Management Technologies and Platforms, working with the MSN Operations Team until November of last year. That’s when I started working for the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab. I find myself in a very unique place and position and thrive on the dexterity of the environment I am working within. Outside of work, my two amazing kids, a drop-dead gorgeous wife, sufi music and eastern philosophy is what keeps me going through this mystery….