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tify different layers even if i had gotten a good grade it would not have mattered i like iiit but as far as the courses on networks are concerned we really failed to meet even the lowest of the bars this was then though i am sure this is fixed now given that background it was a risky move but it got me in touch with some terrific teams and probably now i am a network person more than i am computer vision or machine learning person over this time i helped teams here build a world class cdn a global load balancer for one of the largest sites in the world and a mobile http client that runs nearly on every smart phone solid stuff for a guy who nearly failed a networks course my mentors engineering heroes and role models at facebook are the ones responsible i guess the other major thing i learned here was to not get stuck up with titles like sde sdet or sre at facebook i played multiple roles based on the context dev tester sysadmin and even a pm at times and it worked really well for me this is why now i like the title engineer better than anything else being well rounded is as important as gaining depth in one area i wrote an internal post about why this is important hopefully one of these days i can adapt it for sharing it wider the non tech stuff i never doubted that joining fb would benefit me on the techincal front a lot but having to move to the us because of that brought about a big and probably more important change the number of non indians i met before i came here was in single digits and it now is probably 1000 surely i made a lot of friends at facebook the company and built some close bonds that was bound to happen at any us based company i guess but the world outside work was the real factor behind the change iiit friends or folks in my family know this well i was someone who would not even respond to a stranger s smile leave alone bring up personal stuff in conversation with a stranger i did not deal well with crowds i avoided our own batch picnics celebrations and even refused to cut my own birthday cake once i guess i had to be thrown into a different world to appreciate the value of talking to people now i am usually the first one to strike conversations with strangers talk about their country or city family politics and what not the willingness of other people to talk was a big surprise silicon valley and new york which has now become my second home in the us are crazy diverse if you are into talking to people about things other than technology your perspective is bound to widen i enjoyed striking conversations with people from all the over the world from the hot bed of middle east to little know countries like burkina faso in various professions from directors of companies to taxi drivers from various religions and ethnicities i will narrate my interesting experiences with people separately the point is it definitely made me less cynical many stereotypes are broken and i think am a better person now and not all of it is just because of age i doubt if there is another place where i could have gotten such exposure to different people someday i wish india and many more countries will become economic hotspots and get this diversity the discourse it enables will do the world a lot of good i used to say i learned all of what i know of computers and most of what i know of life at iiit hyderabad i think now that definitely has changed a bit the personal stuff marriage brought its own unique gifts i will not lie by saying it was a smooth road all along the first 6 months or so was really stressful for both me and bona i failed to adjust to the reality of living with someone for the first time in about 18 years and she was away from parents for the first time an immigration system that made us feel less than welcome did not help but we turned it around pretty well she found work here that she is passionate about and got bold enough to become my most useful critic she encouraged me to take bigger steps in profession and finally get over fear with things like motorcycling finally i am willing to say marriage has benefits i intend to keep unlocking more potential with her help the future friends always ask me if we will move back to india first off its not really up to me in my case due to the immigration complexities but if you put that aside i never thought i will have a doubt in my mind when i was coming here i already disliked us then so a return was never in question now i am more ambivalent and probably a little in favor of staying here but like a colleague of mine said there is really no going back to home if we move to india now it will be like moving to an entirely different country it would only be moving forward and with how fast india is changing it surely would be moving forward for me home has always been where my parents were or so i thought but i left that home at 15 and never returned going from city to city mostly for work or education now i realize for me home is where work is and it is great to have work that is very fulfilling and aligns well with my goals of having a direct impact on people from where i came if you did not understand why i was defending the seemingly indefensible with stuff like internet org now you know for now we are placing work above anything else and we will be here until that work is complete posted in uncategorized 2 comments on internet org september 30 2015 the misguided idealism of the critics of internet org is the roughly same as the one that demonized reservations in india touting meritocracy economic equality this is no new position of mine after i turned out okay i wrote this when i was a student without reservation https ranjeeth wordpress com 2009 09 21 anatomy of hypocrites arg ument the people who are the intended beneficiaries of internet org are not even part o f this debate and those who are debating concluded they know what is best for them this is same as a privileged class preaching meritocracy or people who never lived under naxalism praising it as a freedom struggle people who tout the pure ideal say we have to wait around many more years or decades until we give true free internet to everyone they have no idea of the cost or complexity involved in deploying even one service free of cost to millions of users across geographies and carriers and like zuck points out there is no fast lane created here or disadvantage to others it seems that the problem really is the bundling of facebook i presume the resistance would be way less if it was just wikipedia to that i say this it took 2 years to get my parents type a single e mail to me but they embraced facebook in a week and now everyone from the village is trying to get on it and i would like to make it easier for them if the utility of the service has reversed the traditional direction of adoption facebook after internet vs internet after facebook i am okay with it that how we accelerate the transition to the ideal place where everyone gets true free internet this wont be last solution we build to connect the world and there will be better ones and if you want to give true free internet to everyone come work with the people who are trying to make it possible rather than block their every iteration talk to me when you appreciate the scale of humankind we touch with this or if you are really working on a solution posted in uncategorized 2 comments farewell doug june 5 2015 it was back in 2011 i was frustrated with my job in india and was generally struggling for motivation someone told me that facebook was beyond a fad i should use it more and that their photo storage system was an example of how serious they were about building great things so i downloaded some osdi 10 paper named beaver pdf for several weeks i did not bother to read it and it lay there on my desktop then one day i read it by chance it impressed me a lot and that was the beginning of serendipitous sequence of events that ultimately ended up in me joining facebook the company i was really scared though i was considering joining a team working on networks and i had no clue about that area my bootcamp mentor told me what does not kill you makes you strong and coaxed me to mail and meet someone named doug who runs that team doug was really encouraging told me to jump in and that i would be surprised how fast i will pick up the knowledge required it was only after the meeting i connected his full name doug beaver and the document that started it all i never read the authors names earlier often that single nudge makes a lot of difference 3 5 yrs later i still work on networking and i love it without even trying he was an inspirational mentor and one of the biggest influences on me due to facebook s role in helping my parents become computer literate and stay connected with me across continents i have a very personal connection to my work i always believed that we were actually changing the world and i felt doug shared a similar attachment and actually cared about both the quality of our work its significance and the people involved that is a really rare quality it made me less averse to managers and i am glad he was my first manager here this week he decided to move on from facebook and i feel like its the end of an era the professional and personal satisfaction i derive from working here is immense and i will always remember doug for his role in me coming here and developing this connection p s the osdi paper is this https www usenix org legacy event osdi10 tech full_papers beaver pdf posted in uncategorized 2 comments on turning communal october 7 2014 on a recent trip to another city a friend remarked that i turned communal going by my facebook posts it did not surprise me entirely i have been sharing quite a few things that blast islamic extremism people who really knew me would be sure that i was not out on a campaign against the entire muslim world on the contrary i deeply worry about increasing extent of polarization today and about the prejudice against the average muslim the background here is that i have read the quran twice as a child and as a graduate and many associated readings like hadith and sunnah i worry about how the criticism of islam is taken as an indictment of all muslims majority of whom have nothing to do with the extremism the audience of these critics often fail to look at in context failure to see the broad spectrum of practice of islam is very dangerous and plants mistrust in people on both sides i worry about this not out of any altruism but because of the awareness that most religions i know spew the same bullshit in their books and the majority of their following does not take take it literally too now don t get your atheist bazookas out the reason i tolerate religion itself is another topic the jist is that i look at it as some people s way of dealing with metaphysical inquiries eternity etc or as simple substitute for visit to a therapist trying to take that away from an individual will backfire owing to basic nature of human spirit anyway back to my communalism so my recent outburst against what s going on with islamism is in line with my general belief that we are being too nice to religion the specific outburst on islamism came in three bursts during the lead up indian election the gaza conflict and the current isis crisis i could write a long incoherent essay on why here but i will try to organize a bit and show why i decided to poke this hornet s nest admitting that there is problem is the first step now to the question of what really convinced me that i have to start sharing certain uncomfortable questions on a religion that i don t follow i should have no business there right because i care about people on either side of this divide on one hand isis has expanded its targets in stages from yazidis women rafidah to employees of a company in the silicon valley and then to every non believer sure their armies amount to less than a population of small town but their message resonates far and there have been killings far off from their base in response on the other hand many of muslim friends don t even want to acknowledge the existence of these problems over time i realized that many of them have never read these books in full to see that their religion is not infallible or they are too defensive to acknowledge reality my guess is they don t want to give any further ammunition to the extremists from the other side they are super nice people but the former group as much as they hangout mingle with each other is never sure of their loyalties when it comes to this aspect there is always an awkward diversion of topic even when it comes up i hate to put my muslim friends in a spot but on rare occasions i do i am often met with a disdainful so are we supposed to hyperventilate every time some incident occurs and put disclaimers disowning these bad guys certainly not but at least admitting the problem would help others believe that they don t have to prepare for a war in case this blows up asking questions talking of your own religion might help others know the unknown a bit which in turn would reduce their fear and if they don t care enough to get into that mess then they should not be bothered when others lampoon their religion too that is when i decided to give the precious few muslims who speak about it some visibility by asking those same questions it is the least i could do and these are hardly original questions and many have asked them before i was just was not asking them in the effort to appear politically correct recognize that the criticism always seems to come from outside for a reason my first experience with islam was so intense that i practically considered myself a muslim for a while except for accepting mohammed not out of hate but i anyone claiming final solution with suspicion its was only much later i read full biographies and contradicting accounts of his life his sexual life and wars make him an unacceptable character to me but the bullshit in it is not exclusive all abrahamic texts have concepts of exclusiveness and chosen ness deeply embedded in them that instantly fills people with a sense of superiority and connection with cosmic ruler there are good lines too but nowhere to compete with the delusional material but if you don t want to accept the former fact then reading this post further will be of no use the whole point here is to question the relevance of the text or at least the bad parts of it the sad thing here is there is an age group with which such material resonates very well psychologists have some data on this this is why people are worried about indoctrination that turns lethal if the consequences of this absolute confidence in their spiritual master translates to physical danger in the real world to others or political control of others i take great pains to clarify when i say that these are nearly orthogonal worlds and never succeed hopefully some people get it this i...