Latest Articles

Read me. Don't classify me, I'm not a genre - Carlos Fuentes

Year In Review - 2018

I was productive in 2018. I am happy to finish the year with satisfaction.

Seven tips to writing fantastic blog posts regularly

Lessons I learned on this topic from a decade of blogging.

Apps I use - Pocket

Starting point for adult learning is reading. Pocket app is the best tool to save articles and read them in batches.

Abstractions are useful, if you know the context

All abstractions are useful within a context. This is true in life as much as in technology.

Video - Truth About Passive Income & Financial Freedom

Focus on building financial confidence, not financial freedom. When you have financial confidence, you can generate 4 types of income.

What I learned about leadership from the book 'Lead like Jesus'

Leadership is holistic. Leaders should lead with humility and confidence.

Safari - A digital library for your career growth

Safari Online is a digital library for CXOs that has e-books, case studies, learning paths, and much more.

How to think structurally? A framework for developers.

Learning how to think is the best intellectual asset you can build for yourself. Here is one framework to help you.

Video - 3 Daily Needs

We all need something to look up to, another to look forward to, and another is someone to chase.

Agile in the C-Suite

This is the best of times and worst of times to be a CXO. Here is my story of how I am learning to be a CXO using agile principles.

Testimonials

Reputation and respect are worth more than gold - Bible

Joseph and I worked together early in his career when his excellent technical skills, can-do attitude and great work ethic were a hard-to-beat combination. He has grown into a leader who inspires not only with his friendly and infectiously positive disposition, but also with his analytical and technical abilities.

Sastry Tumuluri Covansys Limited

Joseph is a multi-faceted person, working with him is great fun and learning too. He is master of many arts. He is one of very few talented persons who are ready to work outside their comfort zone. He is very technical and result oriented person and once he takes up any job or challenge, be rest assured that the job is done. I myself has witnessed it many times during my stint at iGATE.

Guru Murty iGATE Global Solutions

Joseph is one of those rare persons, who despite all their knowledge are full of humility. An innovator who understands the strength of process flow and thinks one level ahead. His contribution to Government of India's first successful mission mode project MCA21 is immense.

Anil Kumar Bhardwaj Director, Government of India

Books

I write a book for myself - Paulo Coelho

I wrote a book on Ionic, a framework to build mobile applications for both iOS and Android. It was published by Apress. I also started writing a 2nd book on hapi.js, the node.js framework that powers Walmart mobile apps.

Learn Ionic 2

Learn to build cross-platform mobile applications using Ionic 2 framework. The book takes an hands-on approach to teach Ionic 2 with practical examples. You will learn to integrate with 3rd party APIs like Google Analytics, use camera, and build application that can work offline.

hapi.js with Typescript

hapi.js is a web framework for node.js developed at Walmart. hapi is still used at Walmart to serve traffic from mobile apps. TypeScript is a layer on top of JavaScript targeting developer's productivity. In this book, you will learn to develop web applications with hapi.js and Typescript.