Sid Oza - About me!

 

 

 

 

Hi! I am your host, Siddhartha Oza, and this is my personal website. You can read me rant about software development, product management, the web and football here. Please visit my blog for my views and recent articles. And do let me know how you like it!

Born in the city of Indore, in central India, in the year 1978, I did my schooling from Choithram School and then went to Bhilai in the year 1995 for a degree in Electronics Engineering from Bhilai Institute of Technology. In 1999, after completing my graduation, I came to Pune to do an MBA in Systems & IT from University Department of Management Sciences, University of Pune. Dropped out of the program after the first year and then...

As Aristotle once said, "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind".

 

In May of 2000, just after completing my first year of MBA, I applied and got selected for my summer internships at brainvisa.com, a startup in the eLearning area. And basically to cut a long story short, after the two month internship got over, I stayed there, forgetting about the MBA that I was supposed to do. Afterwards I joined Geometric (it was known as Geometric Software Solutions then) in 2001 and have been working there since.

 

From my first gig as a software engineer, to the present one, as a product manager, I have been fascinated by software, technology and the value it can add to the life around us. The user, the form and the function, all have contributed to this passionate affair. Solving a problem that adds something to the user, the why and how you solve it has been the main attraction for staying in the industry. And now...

 

As of today, measuring by the most illusionary of all algorithms, Google PageRank, there are only 17 websites in the whole world wide web with a PageRank of 10. A perfect ten.

 

There are the usual suspects in Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Intel and a handful from Google's own farm, apart from NASA, WhiteHouse and a few others. Before this list of 17 becomes 170, I thought I should also take the plunge.

 

Its called THE web, and this is A website. It is also my web home and a place for me to share my ideas and strike a conversation, with you.

 

 

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