Hi, I'm Raman on Connected-Boxes

About

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:06:47 +1100

25 years of technology consulting. Thousands of whiteboards. Two daughters who still aren’t convinced I have a real job.

According to my two daughters, I get paid to “talk and draw boxes.”

They aren’t wrong. After two and a half decades in the industry, I’ve realised that solving most complex problems require connecting the right boxes.

I’ve spent my career helping organisations move from a “Why” to “What” and “How”. Here is what generally I do day to day:

Post#4: Archaeology of Enterprises

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:15:48 +1000

I can’t remember how many times I have faced the same dilemma every time I have started working on a new program -

How do I quickly understand what has been built so far?
How do I know which systems are talking to each other?

Knowing what exists today so that we can design a better future is always one of the biggest hurdles of any project.

The mystery of perpetual discovery#

It has alluded me all throughout my career: how can any organisation have the right amount of information about Technology Systems? It’s not that tools don’t exist to capture this information, but then, keeping those tools updated is a challenge. Understanding which teams use which tools for delivering which processes is easy to capture when it all starts, but much harder to keep up to date as time progresses and multiple projects get delivered.

Post#3: Why I swapped LinkedIn for Hugo

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:26:14 +1000

This long weekend, I finally managed to do something I have been putting off for months: I started a digital diary (blog).

In the past, I’ve shared my thoughts on LinkedIn, but I’ve realised that content on LinkedIn is a nightmare to manage. I tried to edit an image in one of my past posts, and ended up completely disturbing the content. There was no way to roll back to an older version or fix the mess. That’s when I had thought of creating a space that I could actually control.

Post#2: What's Scam Prevention Framework

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:46:48 +1100

Scams are real, and they’re everywhere#

Who hasn’t heard of scams? Many of us have. For most of the lucky ones, it’s just news we’ve heard. It’s not close or personal. But they are very real - In Australia in 2024, people lost $2.7 billion of their hard-earned money to scams.

What exactly is a scam?#

Legally, scams and fraud are different terms. While fraud is broader, scams typically involve two scenarios:

Post#1: 25 Years Of Drawing Boxes

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:14:28 +1100

My two daughters have distilled down my entire career down to a single sentence:

“Dad gets paid to talk and draw boxes.”

They aren’t wrong.

I have been very fortunate to live in the space between a problem and a solution. Usually that space is filled with thousands of whiteboard sessions and meetings, lot of coffees, mostly frantic deadlines and yes, many connected boxes.

I have realised that my daughter’s summation is actually the most grounded way to describe what I do. Its all about solving problems -