questions. I have been in the technology industry for 17 years now. Uh, I actually was born in India in tonight, Uh, was there for tonight for five years. Then my family moved to Bengal. Ooh, it used to be called differently back then, but I was there for for five more years then, you know, my family came to the United States because my mom wanted to pursue her PhD. She is a professor at Duke University now, and she's a research scientist for the n i H. She does, Ah, a lot of different things with the grant writing and all of that. So when I did most of my schooling in the US, um, I got a degree in engineering, actually is electrical engineering. But right out of college, there were not of not a lot of electrical engineering type jobs. It was I got into i t. So I was back in 2003. Eso once I got into I t estate there for, you know, until you know, and I'm still there. So I would I would highly encourage, uh, students to pursue an engineering or computer science or math and then get into the information technology space

my role right now. I'm an enterprise architect. Uh and so you start your career off as a software engineer. So you So there's different paths. You started to suffer developer, software engineer. He moved a senior role than your lead. Then you can either be a manager or a software architect and then that the software architecture has higher pads like you could go senior. So senior architect, lead architect and then your enterprise architect basically on And the, uh you know, it's still an evolving discipline. Um, the and enterprise architecture discipline is, uh, predominantly there to help with the technologies and infrastructure strategy for a large enterprise. So typically you're going into an enterprise architecture jogger going for a company that's ah, nationwide or global. They already have technology that the implementation and they want Teoh, um, you know, adopt new technology. How do you do that? Like, how do you you know, us CTO can just go and say, Hey, everybody, we're going to go do this. But you have to have a strategy for that, right? You have to have ah roadmap plan to achieve that vision. And that's primarily what my role involvesso weekly work hours varies depending on projects in that travel, there's not a lot of trouble liking that depends on the company. You work for a company like X censure or Infosys, for example, you're gonna have more travel than a company like Microsoft or Starbucks or uh huh, near right, so

Well, so for my role, since I'm you know, you need the programming suffered about my background. You need design patterns, you know, focus on, Like what? Air Corps software design patterns. It's not just about writing code to make it work, but how do you write it? So that it is? Um it is readable and understandable and maintainable. So those three things I would focus on as a software developer, And then if you master that, then you can move on to more core algorithms on, uh, you know, frameworks and platforms. So there's different, um, progression. And then you have the whole cloud architecture space. So which cloud provider do you choose? Why you are you multi cloud? Are you going to be focused on only one cloud provider it So you move from Hey, I'm working on this one application or program to you're a number of applications to maybe the whole system, then maybe cloud, and then you're talking about the whole enterprise. So you so people may pull you in to help with decision ing on which tool to select for a specific purpose. What's the best approach? How do we that we have a problem. How do we How do we do this? Tempera phone? So what? That's that's essentially what it is.