Farewell to my beloved Manager ..

This is one of the sad days (I must have used the superlative here if would have taken into account only the official things) for me after joining Andale (Now vendio). Karthik, the Director of Engg, the guy, "the one" who knows managing people is moving out of Vendio :(

If I remember correctly, it was some time in November 2005, I moved under Karthik from Ravi/Ardaman after completing the Counters MySQL Migration beast. The first project i had worked under him is "Moving the eBay API to the new schema" which went out really good and then started our journey, a journey filled with all the positive adjectives like happiness, joy, love, respect and so on. From there onwards, there is no looking back.

He always tries to find out the interests of us, extends his complete support for them and make sure they gets fulfilled. Back in mid 2006, after working alone on the counters product for almost close to 1.5 years, I expressed my intent to come out of that hell, loneliness. And within no time, I was given a non-Counters project, I started working on a Java project. He is kind enough to give me some time in learning Java also. There are lot of other instances where he proved himself to be "the leader".

Believe it or not, all this has happened through Phone and email. He is in US office and we used to work from Bangalore. (sounds unrealistic...cant do anything..it happened). Luckily, once i got an opportunity to work with him directly for around 4 months. That was an amazing experience, an experience of a life time. The best part in Karthik, he treats you so well, you will never end up with a feeling of hesitation to express something. And he really understands things and try to provide all the help that he can. The other thing that I really like in Karthik is the freedom that he gives you to do things. He always encourages new ideas and always game for experimentation (My guy).

I am just speechless when I heard the word "leaving" from him. I am just shocked/surprised. Cant do much now. He is decided and he is moving. He is the best manager i have worked with., of course, one anyone can work with; i can only say ATB to him for all his future endeavors and I wish i would work with him some time soon.