A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY
NOT ALL JOURNEYS
FOLLOW A MAP.
Four chapters across systems, scale, reinvention and the courage to chart a new route.
Krishna N. Dhoundiyal
Career Milestones & Turning Points
A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY
Four chapters across systems, scale, reinvention and the courage to chart a new route.
Krishna N. Dhoundiyal
Career Milestones & Turning Points
From an Instrumentation & Control classroom to complex hospital integrations, vast data systems, cloud engineering and the unknown landscape of entrepreneurship. The route changed. The curiosity didn't.
Dawn · The departureFIELD NOTE / THE FIRST COMPASS
The first step was not the obvious one. That made it no less a beginning.
THE PEOPLE & PLACES ALONG THE ROUTE
Employer · 2005–2009↗ THE MILESTONE
Graduating with a B.E. in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT) with a 68% aggregate, adding Java to my C++ foundation to earn my Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) credential in 2005, and entering enterprise software engineering at Perot Systems.
✦ THE TURNING POINT
Proving early that my undergraduate branch and marks were starting coordinates, not permanent limits—self-directed certification and practical coding skill bridged the gap into software.
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Wilderness · Learning the stakesFIELD NOTE / THE UNFORGIVING TERRAIN
A more demanding landscape taught a different kind of engineering.
THE PEOPLE & PLACES ALONG THE ROUTE
Client engagement · 2009
Employer · 2009–2012
Employer · 2012–2013↗ THE MILESTONE
Architecting HL7 clinical data interfaces for hospital systems using TCL and Shell scripting on AIX at Perot Systems, taking on HL7 integration work for Xerox during 2009, and continuing at Dell Services—including gaining firsthand US onsite experience—before moving on to build real-time telecom network mediation systems in Perl and Java for major global vendors at IBM.
✦ THE TURNING POINT
Working directly with clients onsite in the US and operating on zero-downtime systems—where a delayed clinical message affects patient diagnostics or a telecom glitch disrupts network telemetry—taught me real-world accountability and engineering discipline that tutorials never cover.
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Open waters · ReinventionFIELD NOTE / INTO THE EXPANSE
The landscape expanded from individual systems to distributed worlds.
THE PEOPLE & PLACES ALONG THE ROUTE
Employer · 2014–2017, 2019–2022
Employer · 2017–2019↗ THE MILESTONE
Transitioning from legacy AIX, Perl, and TCL environments into distributed Big Data (Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive) at Ericsson—where my team was also among the first few to embrace AngularJS back in the day, pairing it with PHP and Java backends to build real-time KPI visualization dashboards—before leading mission-critical laboratory data flows for Quest Diagnostics at HCL and architecting enterprise MLOps platforms in Python on Kubernetes and Airflow.
✦ THE TURNING POINT
Deliberately reskilling across new languages, early frontend shifts, and distributed paradigms every few years—backed by hands-on milestones like my Hadoop certification in 2015 and Spark ML certification in 2020—demonstrates to students that learning never stops at graduation.
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Open horizon · Choosing the routeFIELD NOTE / CHARTING THE UNKNOWN
The work is ongoing. The horizon is deliberately left open.
THE PEOPLE & PLACES ALONG THE ROUTE
Employer · 2022–2025↗ THE MILESTONE
Leading cloud data architectures on AWS and Azure Databricks—alongside modern tooling in Python, Groovy, PowerShell, and Golang—as a Senior Manager and Principal Cloud Data Engineer at Capgemini, before stepping out to co-found Qatalytik Technologies and advise KlearAI.
✦ THE TURNING POINT
Moving from executing corporate roadmaps to owning the direction of a venture—applying two decades of software architecture, integration and cloud engineering experience to building something new. The next chapter is still in progress.
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