Your salary estimates are high in my opinion. He would have been H1B after his Masters. >Spend some years at IBM and Oracle as a developer/senior developer 200

Your salary estimates are high in my opinion. He would have been H1B after his Masters. >Spend some years at IBM and Oracle as a developer/senior developer 200k/year 65-100k maybe less. >PM/Senior PM at Symantec for a year 200-300k/year? 150k max. Oracle, IBM and Symantec do not pay as well as FAANG and you need to adjust for the time. They also colluded to suppress wages. But he did navigate the valley. Seems like a cool guy to get to know and I'd read his autobiography.