Most admired Sun Colleague left Sun.:-(

Navneeth Santhanam, is the name of my ex-Sun colleague who left Sun Microsystems recently on 1st June 2007 and is going to join EMC2.

He is really a true gem of a person. He was the first / ONLY person to wish me "Best of Luck" when i came for interview in Sun. Though he didn't took my interview but he took interviews of other candidates. His interviewing skills was amazing. He has interviewed/hired most of the interns in my team. He even interviewed Managerial candidates when our team didn't had manager.

He was the cricket captain of Sun Cricket team, Team Lead of Outlook Connector product, he spent almost 5 years at Sun. (4years as employee & 1 year as intern). Though i was not part of his product, we interacted professionally/technically lots. We both were the only guys in our team who initiated any fun-event. We were the official organizers. Suresh Jayaram assigned him as my mentor in the early days when i joined Sun, but he is still my true mentor. I really adore his leadership, logical thinking & interviewing skills. Wish i could get some percentage of his. I am missing him most since he left Sun.