Angelo's Soapbox

Takin' the plunge

Its 'bout time! Have been thinking about blogging for a while. In fact its been over 3 months since I set up the account. So its 'bout time I get started. Here goes A little about myself. I've been at Sun for almost 13 years. Started here as part of the product team during the early days of Solaris x86. Spent a lot of time working with developers and Sun's large partners. Right now I'm part of the Tech Office in Sun's Market Develeopment Engineering organization. My group "makes strategic partners run best on Sun." We help port partner applications to our platform, performance tune their application, help partners size their application, benchmark their application and anything else that will help make Sun the best platform for our partners. Its an exciting job at Sun at an exciting time. One of my job responsibilities is to run the Tunathon 2006 program. We get engineers from the product team to tune partner applications. This gives Sun product engineering a view into how our partners use our platform and it gives partners access to the big brains at Sun. The last 5 months I've been traveling around the world (9 countries) and spoke to over a 1000 developers and sysadmins about the virtues of DTrace. Its been a great experience and I plan to document these in my blogs. On a personal front I'm a father of 3 (You'd never say that if you saw me!!!). My oldest is in fifth grade and is a Math wizz and is preparing for his first spelling bee. My 6 year old is into music, plays the piano and dabbles with composing songs. My 2 year old, is well..., very cute. My wife holds a post graduate degree in Electrical Engineering and she decided to stay back home to be with the kids for now. My Father retired as the Chairman and Managing Director of a Public Sector Company in India. OK enough about myself.

Posted at 09:00PM Nov 03, 2005 by angelo in General  |  Comments[1]