Global Presence

Though I had intentions of writing more often on this blog, especially after OpenSolaris went live, I never got around to it until now. The primary reason is that most of the code that I work on hasn't yet appeared in OpenSolaris for various reasons. So, I will talk about how fun it is to work for a global company such as Sun. I was traveling in South America earlier this year during a vacation and was delighted when I spotted the Sun logo on top of a huge building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's a good looking building and was in the newly hip and cool Puerto Madero Barrio. Now, I am quite sure that we don't inhabit the whole building but we definitely have our big logo on it. I wanted to step inside but I was in a rush as I had to take a flight soon afterwards and didn't have the time. Maybe next time. Over the course of the last 8 years, I have been to various Sun campuses around the world and most of the time, have been impressed with their locations.

Debut

So, I have decided to climb on the bandwagon of Sun bloggers.  I am not exactly a newbie to blogging per se but I am excited about joining my colleauges in this trendsetting corporate blogging culture.  My name is Anup Sekhar and I have been a software engineer at Sun for 8 years and most of it has been as part of the Naming group (responsible for the LDAP/NIS/NIS+ and formerly FNS/DNS components of Solaris).  Our group has undergone numerous name changes and is currently referred to as the Network Repository group which is part of the bigger Approachability organization.  Over these years, I have worked on various exciting projects at Sun including project Wyoming (the 64 bit Solaris), IPv6-ization of naming services, Native LDAP, porting the libldap library from iPlanet.  For the last 3 years, however, I was on loan to the greater Solaris organization as one of two gatekeepers for Solaris 10.  Now that Solaris 10 is out the door, I am back in my group and starting to work on a project codenamed Sparks which is a major enhancement of how the naming services work.

Since I already have a personal blog where I talk about non-technical stuff (mostly), I will try to use this one for blogs related to my work at Sun and the technologies that I am interested in.