Bengaluru techie rides on a horse to work. | Credits: Facebook/Unofficial: Subramanian Swamy

Bengaluru: Bored of his job in an IT company, a Bengaluru techie ditched all norms as he made his way to office riding a horse on the last day of work. Photos of the software engineer riding the white horse in formals went viral on social media. Roopesh Kumar Verma started from his home at 7 am and reached office after seven hours at 2 pm.

However, becoming the talk of the town was not his intention at all. Verma wanted to avoid getting stuck in the nightmarish traffic of Bengaluru. His horse also bore a sign that read, ‘last working day as a software engineer’.

“I did not know this would go this viral. This was my last working day and this was my way of taking my frustration out on traffic jams. There are traffic jams for which sometimes we have to wait as long as 30-40 minutes on the same spot. There will be multiple solutions and we should use the huge IT resources we have. If we can solve one of the world's most complex problems, why can't we solve this problem?” Verma was quoted as saying by The News Minute.

Verma was raised in Pilani in Rajasthan. He started working as a software engineer in Bengaluru about eight years ago after completing his engineering degree from Manipal. Roopesh also expressed his motivation to launch his own start-up as he feels none of the engineers is actually happy with their jobs.

“We study in top colleges in India and we work in top companies in the world but we are never the owners, all the owners are from abroad. You see any big company, all the CEO, MDs will be Indians but owners will be from outside— this is painful,” he was quoted as saying in a report by The News Minute. He also remained hopeful that we can replace Microsoft and Google with Indian IT ventures like Flipkart replaced Amazon.

He also talked about his chances of joining the Indian Army, as per the report by The News Minute. “I am a great fan of the Indian Army and want to join, given a chance at this moment,” he was quoted as saying in the report.