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Revanth Kumar

Software Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services

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Could you tell us briefly about your family background?

Educated Micro family.

What are the most important career decisions that you have made along the way?

Java Developer turned to Oracle developer turned to Testing-Engineer turned to Domain expert.

Work Life Balance

Most challenging-task ever-since.
Still experimenting on it to strike a balance.

Required Reading

Complete Reference, J2EE bible, RoseIndia, Apache foundation.

Challenges in The Technology

Holistic picture is needed in Java, without which coding becomes meaningless.
Java is a tougher choice as a front-end, to newer richer and easier options like Flex, Fusion.

Scope Of Java

Java continues to be the industry option, for robust solutions.

Comparison With Other Language

Java provides rich features and flexibility.

Areas for the Future

J2EE

Current Role

I'm currently dwelling on domain as Telecom Billing expert, using a wide range of technologies - Java/Oracle/Unix/Linux/MySql.

Plans for the Future

I aspire to lead a team of developers, performance-engineers

Changes in the industry

Especially after Oracle acquisition, Java is pacing towards commercial usage apart from freeware platform.

What are the important lessons you have learned in your professional life?

Learning a technology takes 2-3 weeks.
Mastering a technology takes 4-5 months.
Value for customer lies only in a perfect mix of technologies is used for delivering a good solution as per requirement.

Current Job Profile

I'm currently working as Senior Software Engineer, primarily designing new solutions and secondarily performance-engineering the existing applications.
I'm more oriented to Java-Oracle-Unix combination of solutions and I've been working on Comverse products.

Technology Trends

Groovie scripting came on top of Java-APIs.
Java-FX came to compete rich-app development.

Degrees That Matter

SCJP is certainly the best recognition.
Internal certification courses/programs to organizations are also counted.