Sridattha Moudgalya
Software Engineer
Wipro
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Could you tell us briefly about your family background?
I origin from Mysore, the Southern City of Palaces. My dad is a Magistrate and my mom was a lecturer. My parents always wanted me to be a government professional :)
Essential Advice
Yes, go ahead do it, not just because you are paid more than a developer who's the one to introduce the critical moments in your daily work life. But to discover things in a different dimension and to get the domain knowledge on entire anatomy of a project.
Required Reading
Wiki, google and go out, catch some couple of domain experts, build a forum, brainstorm. Thats the best way.
Currently working at
Well, I'm currently a DevOps which is the job wher I should be Master of all, Jack of none. It includes automation, scripting, development, cloud, Opensource, Testing and plotting the roadmap
Most Important Lessons
Never underestimate any subtle things or assume things in your career.
Changes in the industry
Manual - Auto
Most Important Decisions
This is tricky, You can stick in to one job profile and become a Senior Technical Consultant or move to management. I chose growing both vertically and horizontally.
Tech trends to watch out for
Now everyone tend to speak the same language and I see there is a threat to the QA if we don't do and see things differently rather following the traditional ways of testing methodologies
Current and Previous Responsibilities
I started my career as a Operations Engineer, then Developer and next as a QA Automation engineer and aggregating all the skill I'm a DevOps now
Degrees that Matter
Theres something called Smart Google. Every one uses search engines and repositories to store, retrieve information out of Data. I see the emerging concept of Big Data. Having considered all the scenarios, whoever sustains doing the things fast enough will be eligible to follow the lane of success.
Plans for the Future
I think I will be replaced by a computer