Team
Who are we? We are your regular people.
Um, actually, we lie. We aren't regular. For one, we are crazy about computers (each of us gets a Mac to work and play with in the office. You too can, if you join us ). Secondly, we each have skillz. We'll all be working on, say, turning 40 lines of jumbled code into a super-cool address book, and next moment, one of us is tap dancing to the other's Madhyamavathi.
Rethas
Many years ago, Rethas decided not to do what others would have done after graduating from Loyala college with a Masters in Mathematics (In fact, arguably, not many people would even graduate with a Masters in Maths). Also many years ago, Rethas decided to hitch his wagon to a little known company that was making cool software. And many years since then, Rethas has been at Tenmiles.
Rethas lives a double life.On the one hand, he loves Tenmiles' atmosphere and merged the company's ideals and goals with his. On the other hand, he (like superman) transforms into a carnatic singer often and escapes to places all across India to perform.
When he is not singing, or working at Tenmiles,or singing while working at Tenmiles, Rethas likes live sport, enjoys good beer (who doesn't?) and theorises about life.
Ramya
Ramya has many firsts to her name. She is the first Ramya to work at Tenmiles. This, her first job, began on the first day of the first month of 2008. Firstly though, her qualifications.
She is a B.Tech in IT (first class, if one's not mistaken) from the Bharathidasan university. Keep an eye out when around her, for cascading style sheets are her forte. Which explains why she likes the flexible work timings (and floating divs) at Tenmiles just a tad more than the Rajasthani sweets we hand out.
Vinay Seshadri
Who in their right minds would turn down an offer from India's largest software services company to work at Tenmiles?
Vinay Seshadri, that's who. If you do ask him, he'd say that because he was in his right minds he turned down the big-bad-software company. Vinay graduated from VIT where he studied Product Development for one semester. Epiphany struck, he says, and became deeply interested in seeing a product go from start to finish. The big software company was not going to give him that chance, so he walked in for an interview at Tenmiles. He began working that week, likes the conversations in the office and has been here since.
Vinay loves to play games (not the kind that managers do though) and idolises Plum, Sir P.G Wodehouse. To wrap up, Vinay likes conversations ranging from the abstract to mind-numbingly dumb and has varied interests in general.
Merlin
Merlin needs no introduction. As the mentor of King Arthur he...oh wait. That's an entirely different Merlin. Sorry about that.
Merlin of Tenmiles too needs no introduction inside the office. She is the PHP, MySQL, Java and AJAX wizard. Like the true geek, she loves programming (which is a good thing, if you happened to be a PHP programmer), cannot resist ice-cream, and would love to learn new things daily. This is perhaps why she comes to work every day. Nungambakkam is close to good ice-cream places, and Tenmiles folks keep discovering new reasons to buy it.
Vikram Bhaskar
Vikram Bhaskar's career graph closely matches his travel routes. Growing up in Botswana, he wanted exciting, challenging roles that would let him express himself. Oh wait, that came later. What came first (not the chicken, not the egg), is that he graduated from Botswana University with a Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and took over the family business - a Yamaha dealership. A burning desire to return to India saw Vikram graduating with an MBA from the SP Jain Centre of Management and hunting for the aforementioned exciting and challenging roles. Hence Tenmiles.
While not nodding his head in rhythm to the music of Tiesto or Paul van Dyk, or drooling over BMWs, Vikram revels in the casual, but high-spirited atmosphere at Tenmiles. Where, he believes, people are judged not on their qualifications, but their skills and potential.
Pulkit
Pulkit Sankhla is, or rather was, an Eligible Bachelor. In the sense that he graduated from Anna University with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication degree. Later, he completed a certificate program in management of software development (CPMSD) from IIM-Calcutta. 2 Degrees, in other words, above zero.
He likes challenges, which is why he wakes up every morning (his window faces east. Poor chap) with the single aim of coming up with new ideas to implement. A side-effect of reading self-help/leadership books methinks. He believes Tenmiles doesn't indulge in petty bureaucracy (unlike the Indian government), one reason why he likes working here. And like every other Indian, he likes food and cricket, in no particular order.
