India, Nov. 17 -- An Indian software engineer has caught the internet's attention after sharing an extraordinary account of how he went from earning Rs.3.2 lakh per annum in India to paying $48,000 (approximately Rs.42 lakh) in income tax alone in the United States, all within just three years.

In his post, the techie revealed that he graduated from a tier-3 engineering college with 17 backlogs, some of them repeats. "I was not even allowed to sit for on campus placements," he said. But despite the academic setbacks, he said he always had strong fundamentals in computer science. "So from 2020 to 2022 I worked my a** off, putting in 10-14 hour days, weekends included, for a salary of 3.2 LPA," he wrote, adding that those two years laid th...