Today morning i was looking backward on my journey on last 2 year at Sun. It may not be useful to anybody but i think it is good to me keep it here.
I joined Sun on March 1st 2006 as RE for JES. Frankly speaking i was not aware of what was a RE job at that time. While joining i was thinking, my job might be write an installer for JES stack product. But I got to know that whole JES integration team (22 members) was doing same thing :)
After one week of real struggle i got to know that my work is just create package/rpm/msi/depot for JES installer product, and provide a building environment. Got irritated by sudden shift from a telecom domain (previous company Openstream there I was working on SMS/EMS/JMS/RMI/J2EE/J2ME/ITEXT etc) to a RE work (here expected knowledge on scripting language like shell,perl,ant). I thought I had joined to a wrong job (Monster add at that time based on my experience ;) ) on first week of my Career at Sun. Then onwards i was telling my friends that "Shift by job not by Company brand name".
But manager (Gowri) was very nice guy he wanted me to show my talent, but my internal mind always asking me why did u shift. So I could not do much more work for first 3 months. Then i decided that, there will be some thing to learn in the RE job, then i started concentrate on my job after 3 month ;)
By that time i was involved in 2 projects like JES and Openinstaller (old name was Purplehaze, PH). In PH I got very nice help from James and Manpreet who helped me from day one. From JES team got full support from Gerard. Because i have to learn every thing from scratch like shell,perl,ant my initial days were very hectic.
Finally i could deliver what my manager expected after 6 months (This is a long period i know ;)) Then i started asking for my work change. PH manager (Matthew) was able to give some java related work to me. Due to that work i learnt JDK 1.5 and its special feature, till that time i was working on JDK 1.4.
Then i got a fresh automation project we called that as Tinderbox, an automation of building and integration of whole JES stack and Test them. This was very nice project, even though i knew that, this project is not going to use any more, i tried to write as much automation as possible. Machine pool concepts and automation of report generations are some of the key points. By this project i learnt shell script little bit. Got real interests in shell script by that onwards.
By this time i thought i have to move out of team, because i don't want to work on some thing i really don't like. Tried 2-3 teams in IEC. But because of long break from Java, i could not get in any other teams. Even i tried out side Sun (Without any other option :().
By that time there were no other work for me as RE. So I got a real interesting, long waited break. I got a chance to work on netbeans module development. Nice project where we tried to create a installer module for open installer framework. Vadi is a real hero on netbeans module at that time(Even now, working in netbeans team itself). Got a chance to work with him. Really interesting to follow netbeans source repository.
Tried to write a small installer called easy installer which could be used for creating an installer for any java standalone project. By 2-3 click ny one can create installer file for java standalone java application. We completed that project in time with some more enhancement required. Could not work much on that because of some other reason happened at that time. Whole team is re-deployed to different business unit.
Due to re-deploy i joined (with most of our team member), CDS (Content Delivery Server) , very nice team with very good work ahead of us. This was my dream change. Whatever i was thinking/dreaming i got here. Again got a chance to work on telecom domain.
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