
10:30 AM, Friday.By noon, I was an employer.
I was in the program war room by 8:30. At 10:30 my VP called me into a room where HR was waiting. A business decision, not performance. Security carried my bag out.
I drove to a tea house and felt free for the first time in 25 years. I'd been planning the move from employee to employer for six years. Most people get six minutes. This library is the plan I'd hand them.
Engineer from a village in Sangli. First job at CMC.
17 years of transformation consulting at Infosys.
Hybrid-cloud modernization at Western Union. Head of Cloud, AI & Platform Engineering. Built an agentic AI platform.
Laid off. Founder of BigTech Consulting and SIXXAB AI, full-time.