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. My thoughts on why did I transition to leadership.

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. Slowly but steadily we are building our circle though :) First place lived is in Burlingame. During 2020, we thought of buying home. Yes, during the pandemic year. Also, we decided to move to East Bay/Tri-Valley. That’s all we knew at the mid 2020. The first challenge is finding a good realtor. Started with a Redfin agent but didn’t find the chemistry. Then, we tapped our network and got some recommendation. Worked with them but it became very obvious even at the first meet that the dynamic wasn’t there. Kinda, we hit a roadblock. That’s when we got reference of Nivi from the most (un)usual place - Blind app.