Ketkee Aryamane

(powerful music) - So when I was a kid way back in India, computers was a big thing, so it was a big thing to have a computer in the house. And when my father got one, I started looking into it and I saw what beautiful jobs it does for you. So I used to play games. I was particularly interested in this game called Road Rash. I used to love it. I used to literally tell my mom that I'm going to sit inside the room and study and quietly play that game (laughs) on the computer. The game stuff, the things that it could do for you. You could write out documents. All of those things really fascinated me. And once I went to the high school, I took up engineering. I did that in electronics and telecommunication, but this computer thing kept coming behind and I really wanted to do something where this programming stuff begins off it. And then when I completed my bachelor's, I got this opportunity to be a research engineer in the Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai. And it's a very big thing because you get to deal with so many intellectual people around who know much more than you have ever known probably, so it was a delightful experience. I had about two or three rounds of interviews, and they made me so comfortable with it. And they asked questions about all the subjects that I have studied way back in my engineering, but it was such an interesting conversation. It was like a conversation and not an interview, so that itself was a very delightful experience. And then I started doing the research thing, did it for nine months, and then I was drawn into this thing of programming. Because the research that I was doing was in the networking field. It was not the computers or mainstream programming zone. So, I was drawn into the programming aspect, and that's how I decided that I'll go for an MNC, so I got into Cognizant. As a fresher I started there, and I was trained in Java. And I developed a love for that language somehow. I don't know what happened, but I started to like it so much. Unfortunately, I got placed in a project which was a completely different technology. I even had a couple of arguments with my manager because I wanted to get back to Java programming. And then a year later I think I finally got into a Java project. I started doing Java development, and I was ecstatic about it. 7.5 years I think I did development into Java, J2EE and its related technologies. And there came a point where I was leading this team for a product development project, and there was a team of around eight or nine freshers under me which I was supposed to manage. And what happened is that when I started dealing with them and I started telling them how to code, I understood that I really like this training stuff. And there comes a point in your career when you know that there are some things you like to do and there are some things you would love to do, and that's when I decided I probably want to take up training as a full-time career. And trust me, when I decided to do that, there are some friends of mine who laughed at me and said, "Why are you going from being a developer to a trainer? "It's a completely different zone. "It's a transition that you're making "which may probably risk your position." But I wanted to really do it, and that's how I ventured into training and now last three or four years I've been training and here I am. (bright electronic music)