Manisha Sarkar
As Co-Founder & CTO of Oz Lunara, I talk about building with AI agents, shipping production security infrastructure as a DevOps engineer
- Published stories
- 2
- First published
- June 2026
- Latest publication
- June 2026
- Current rank
- #7
- Reading time published
- 055m
- Topics contributed to
- Careers & Growth
Articles by Manisha
Life Isn't Fair. I Stopped Waiting for It to Be.
Hundreds of silences for one yes. A pandemic that erased my start, a cutoff missed by half a mark, and door after door shut before I'd finished a sentence. This is how I stopped waiting for life to be fair and started playing the odds instead.
# Turning Detours into Strengths: My Journey from a Five-Year Career Gap to Co-Founding a Cloud, AI, and Security Company
After graduating with a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication, I thought my path would lead to robotics and chip manufacturing. Instead, a global pandemic, five years of competitive exam preparation, and countless rejections forced me to build a completely different route into technology. This is the story of how those seemingly unrelated experiences became the foundation for a career in cloud, AI, and security—and why I believe no learning is ever truly wasted.