Indian Oracle DBA makes millions
By Shalini Singh

While general social networking websites like Orkut and Facebook have the numbers in India, LinkedIn dominates the business and senior executive niche.  Many senior Indian executives can be found at LinkedIn networking and sharing their knowledge. Reid Hoffman is the founder of LinkedIn with an excellent track record of investing in other startups like Digg, Flickr, Ning and FB

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Late this week, LinkedIn launched its IPO and the market could not buy enough of its shares. There was a premium of 100 percent for the shares and they almost touched $100 (slightly less now).

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman made a couple of billion dollars in the last 2 days.

Your readers make be interested in knowing that Indian origin Agiladevi Ramanathan, who is a techie and Principal Data Base Administrator at LinkedIn, had 364 thousand shares in the company.

Value of the shares today?  Even conservatively, valued at more than $33 Million dollars. Even if the share price halves, Agiladevi is a multi millionaire many times over.

If you check Agiladevi Ramanathan profile on LinkedIn, you can see Agiladevi studied at PSG College of Technology at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Most of the Indians who have made millions in USA have done their MBA and are managers and ideas people.  This is the first time I have seen a super techie and Database Administrator make so many millions.  Congrats Agiladevi.
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