Microland Digital Warriors

Microland Digital Warriors | 13 © MICROLAND LIMITED 2020. Internal Circulation Only 12 A project that felt like a new shining toy Abhabya joined Microland as an NGTC with a couple of years of work experience behind her with a single purpose—learning more. And that’s exactly what was in store. Landing on the prized Big Data Cluster (BDC) project was more than what she wanted. Always hungry to do more, she attributes her deployment to constantly “annoying” her manager! Restlessness, when channelized right, can be a great asset. For Microland and Abhabya that restlessness worked out well. Here was an enthusiastic Microlander who decided to build the expertise required for an ambitious project. BDC was new and she dived deep into it. She was required to not just understand the nuances of BDC but was also invited to develop a point of view. “That made all the difference,” she says. For Abhabya things couldn’t have gotten bigger. BDC was, from a technology perspective, in the big league. EY, the client for whom it was being executed was even bigger. The stakes were high and Abhabya managed the pressure of the engagement, nudged on by the “learning opportunity” that the project brought with it. At the end of it, she was part of the team that made EY trust Microland much more than Microsoft (that owns BDC!). “That version of me, when I started on this project, and the version of me now are different,” she recounts in a lingo that is so atypical of a hard-core techie—but, much like software, even people have versions. It was a “baptism by fire” she says on how the small 3-person team had to make big wins. Taking on Microsoft and showing better value than them was not easy. But not only did Abhabya and the team do it, they did it better and faster—in 2 months, against a target of 3. The excellence that Abhabya with her team demonstrated was a booster shot for the Microland-EY relationship. The 3-year managed services contact that the client signed with us immediately after was a huge testament, that value delivered is value earned. Outside of work Abhabya is big on “sustainability” and those planet saving ideas, and cooking is her unwind. For a bright spark like Abhabya, the best is yet to come. Abhabya A S This Digital Warrior was responsible for the deployment of a scalable Microsoft Big data cluster withMachine learning / AI capability for EY. The solution involved building a highly scalable, self-healing and high-performance data lake. She has also been involved in designing a nextgen technology solution involving OpenShift for CSL Behring, another client.”