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Comment by roflchoppa | Hacker News Reader

why is this website `daviddodda` while the linkedin message mentions `arun`.

This might be the forth or fifth time I've seen this type of post this week, is this now a new form of engagement farming?

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so, David is like my middle name, when I started on LinkedIn i used my full name. but I could not get my domain with that name. but was able to snag https://daviddodda.com which sounds much smoother, more of a personal branding choice.

It looks like the LinkedIn account and site are really the same person to me, just keep in mind it's not uncommon for Indian IT workers to adopt an anglicized name in this kind of context.

> It looks like the LinkedIn account and site are really the same person to me, just keep in mind it's not uncommon for Indian IT workers to adopt an anglicized name in this kind of context.

I've never encountered an Indian IT worker who does that, but I'd say a majority of Chinese IT workers go by an English name.

It's definitely significantly more common from China. I think part of it is Indian names can often be made easier for English speakers to work with anyways + cultural trends in recent times have made having unfamiliar sounding names less of a big deal over time. One of our teams is in Bangaluru with ~100 folks and maybe 8 of them bother using anglicized names in calls/emails.

> One of our teams is in Bangaluru with ~100 folks and maybe 8 of them bother using anglicized names in calls/emails.

Also I've gotten the impression that at least a few my coworkers in Bangalore with anglicized names are Christian. I haven't pried to confirm, but in a couple cases their names don't fit the pattern of being adopted for working with foreigners (e.g. their last name is biblical).

A significant amount of my coworkers from India use a shortened form of their name, though.

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