Last week, I got promoted to Engineering Manager (EM) of the Database team at Cloudflare. I joined the team almost 3 years ago. A senior team member and myself were hired to form a then dedicated database team. I have been enjoying it and the team is amazing to work with. Great people. Opportunities came to either advance on the Individual Contributor (IC) or the leadership side. I picked the latter.

This is something new for this site. In fact, First of its kind. Mostly, I write about Tech, Finance, books etc. Recently, I thought about writing/journaling more of my personal life and experiences. Also, interactions with the professional people whom I met. If you have known Sri or myself personally, we moved to San Francisco from Boston (Sri) and Los Angeles (myself) in 2019. We don’t have that many friends or family here in the Bay area.