Travel
Something that Venkat likes to do.
What is Travel?
Venkat's first job.
What is teaching in schools?
A country where Venkat wants to visit.
What is Brazil?
Venkat's two alternative careers if he had not gone into IT.
What is Teaching or Mining Operations?
Name one of four of the most beautiful places in nature that Venkat has visited.
What is the North Rim - Grand Canyon, Nepal, the Pacific Northwest, or Banff, Canada?
The most impactful technology changes in Venkat's career (name one of two).
1. What is High availability (RAC) and SAME (Strip All and Mirror everything)? ***DB recovery became a distant and rare event
2. What is Exadata? *** which made 10+ Terabyte databases a scalability breeze with split millisecond response to customers.
Four languages that Venkat speaks (name two).
What are English, Hindi, Telugu and Bengali?
The most unusual job Venkat had during his working years.
What is a Bad debt collector? - Visit a customer as a Bad debt collector, but ended up solving performance and delivery issues in large contracts and turning myself into a trusted advisor leading transformation projects.
12 Places and countries where Venkat has visited (name four or more).
What are the United States (almost every state), India, Canada, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Nepal, China, Germany, Egypt, Tibet, and Bermuda Island?
The top two IT accomplishments that make Venkat most proud (name one).
1. What is leading the DBA team in the HP Compaq merger? or
2. What is leading the Exadata transformation and CDW architecture in KP?