Years inside enterprise systems ://
Every free morning in a forest.
Every entry here carries a date and a place. Half are about the service platforms companies run on, half about wildlife in India and further afield. Written and photographed by Shashikant Patnaik.
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ABOUT US
I'm Shashikant Patnaik. I work in technology by trade and photograph wildlife on almost every morning that is not spoken for.
The working half is fifteen years inside enterprise systems delivery, platform work, and more recently the AI layer and the awkward governance questions that arrive once a system is allowed to act rather than just advise. What I write here is aimed at the people doing the work rather than the people signing the cheque. Real numbers where I have them, honest ones where they are less flattering.
The other half is birds and mammals, mostly in the Aravallis and the wetlands around Gurugram, with occasional trips further afield. No baiting, no call playback, no approaching nests, and vague locations where a species is under pressure.
The two sit together for a reason. A system inventory is a taxonomy, and so is a bird list. Both are an attempt to write down what is actually there rather than what the chart says should be, and both decay the same way when nobody maintains them.
Every entry here carries a date, a place, and one thing I did not expect.
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Reforesting Southern Spain
Restoring native forests and rebuilding biodiversity in vulnerable regions.
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Wildlife Habitat Restoration
Protecting endangered species by restoring natural habitats and ecosystem.
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Both jobs are the same job, done in different clothes, yet they carry distinct nuances and reflect variations in style and approach that can greatly influence the overall perception of the work involved.
