nakul-vachhrajani

Nakul Vachhrajani

Senior Manager at Capgemini

Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat, India

(Alumni B.E. E.C. - UVPCE- 2004 Pass out)

I, Nakul Vachhrajani am a SAFe 4.0 Practitioner, Product Owner (PMPO), TOGAF 9 certified Technical Architect, Microsoft Certified Professional and systems development professional with Capgemini having a total IT experience of more than 15 years. I have also been awarded with an “Alumni Achiever Certificate of Honour” award by Ganpat University.

It was the year 2000 - the dawn of the new century; The world had just completed discussing Y2K; The 1st generation iPod was still more than a year away!

On the outskirts of Mehsana, near the tiny village of Kherva, something big was taking shape. When I started my Engineering in Electronics & Communications Department at U. V. Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat Vidhyanagar campus had just started with less than 5 buildings.

The integrated campus meant that learning was interactive with lots of time to think, to deliberate and to practice. Faculty and staff at Ganpat Vidhyanagar campus were encouraging us all - the students. They were truly friends, philosophers and guides. They chose to take the students through non-conventional methods of education. There was complete freedom to participate in competitions of all sorts, debates and meets of any branch.

This led me to an addiction. I enrolled in an Advanced Diploma in Information Technology from C-DAC, based out of an on-campus satellite centre. Me and my group of friends habitually visited and spent time in the laboratories and libraries of almost all branches of engineering. I was on the team of student volunteers behind the very first “CONVERGENCE” – a signature meet where the greatest minds from engineering schools across the country got a chance to be on the same platform.

The four years of engineering school made me realize that engineering is much more than semiconductors, circuits and technology. It is a way of thinking; a journey of  life long learning.

After graduating in 2004, I started my career with one of the most iconic names in the Indian IT industry – Patni Computer Systems Limited. It was a company founded by the Late Mr. Naren Patni, the pioneer of Indian IT. While working, I pursued my Masters in Software Engineering from BITS, Pillani - a Patni alliance.

Today, I have more than a decade of dedicated experience on Data Quality, Data Management and Database Administration. I have a comprehensive grasp on data migrations to Salesforce.com, and product development, implementation and sustenance (including handling of production support escalations) on products using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server and C, C++, Visual C++/C#.

I am the author of 12 technical articles on database technologies (published worldwide in edited journals & communities) and 3 whitepapers (one of which has been published nationwide). I am an active blogger (400+ blogs on http://nakulvachhrajani.com), and can also be found on forums at SQLServerCentral and Experts-Exchange. I have been a guest columnist for SQLAuthority.com and SQLServerCentral.com. I have also presented a webcast in Microsoft Virtual Tech Days and is a speaker at multiple local user group events.

In addition to my passion about SQL Server, I also contribute to academia out of my personal interest. I visit various colleges and universities as a guest lecturer, an external faculty to judge project activities of the students.

When not occupied with work, I prefer to lead a private life and like to spend time with my family. My hobbies include going for walks, listening to music and reading till late into the night.

• Blog: https://nakulvachhrajani.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/sqltwins
• LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nakul-vachhrajani-36830633/

In closing, the following words come to my mind:

 “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”               

~ “The Origin of Species” by Sir Charles Darwin