Sethu Kalavakur possesses expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, product management, databases, business intelligence and 27 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "Sethu has been both my direct manager and my skip-level manager. As a program manager on his team, I learned a lot from him on driving for results, effectively resolving conflicts, and clearly communicating status and requests. Sethu created a friendly and effective team environment where members on the team actively sought to help each other out and contribute to overall success. Even when I was not on Sethu's team, he provided critical guidance and support for projects I worked on such as successfully completing the transparent data encryption feature for SQL Server 2008. He has been a great mentor and manager through the years." and "Sethu is a great colleague and friend. He is a deep thinker who has the ability to distill complex technical concepts into concrete plans. He is adept at working cross-group and aligning differing ideas and plans for a common goal. And on top of everything else, he is a respected people manager."