Hyderabad: The son of an impoverished daily wage labourer in Nalgonda district has made his parents and the entire district proud by bagging an offer from Oracle Corporation for an annual pay package of Rs 79.18 lakh.
S.K. Naseer from Koduru village in Nalgonda district had joined IIT-Kanpur in 2011 after securing a rank of 239 in JEE 2011.
Mr Naseer’s father, S.K. Jamaluddin, had moved from his village Koduru to Suryapet about a decade ago so he could provide for his son’s education. He found daily wage labour work with a local granite company, while his wife Raheema Begum worked from home as a tailor.
Always a bright child, almost all of Mr Naseer’s education has been free. “I owe my schooling to Navodaya School for waiving off my fee and providing me with free education. I think that was the first step to my success. I am deeply indebted to the school and my teachers,” Mr Naseer said.
He secured 587 marks in his Class X Board exams following which he moved to Hyderabad where Sri Chaitanya admitted him for free in its IIT-JEE coaching programme. His success continued as he secured 969 out of 1,000 in Intermediate and bagged the 239th rank in the JEE 2011.
“I was always fascinated by computers, so I thought computer science suited me best,” he said. Mr Naseer opted for computer science at IIT Kanpur.
In his fourth year of engineering, he sat for the campus placements in his college and was picked by Oracle Corporation for an annual package of Rs 79.18 lakh. He was among the four students selected by Oracle to work in the company’s Redmond Hills facility. “Samsung selected three students for Rs 93 lakh and four of us were selected by Oracle. But I am not disappointed for missing out on the higher package,” he said.
From a village in Nalgonda to a high profile multinational in California, his journey has been an exceptionally inspirational one. “I think it just proves that poverty is not a barrier in life. If you have the resolve and if you put in the hard work, you can do wonders,” he added.
