Software People Stories

As we approach the end of a calendar year, many of us have the practice of looking back on the year that was, reflecting on the highs and lows of the year - and shape our dreams and aspirations for the coming year. At Software People Stories, we are running a special series of conversations with people on their own approaches as well as practices and stories of how their thinking has changed over...

In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Bharath Kumar who is a Marketeer from a Technologist, Head Of Marketing & Cx - Zoho Creator and he’s a Marketing and Content Specialist . In his career spanning over two decades, he shares very interesting stories – Started his career in Infosys as a software engineer Found that his interests was in organizing events, quizzes and packag...

In this episode, I asked Tom Pierce, the president and founder of Integrated Information Systems (I2S) responds to my question on how the ‘integrated’ in his company name is internalized by his clients. He responded to that question and shared many more interesting thoughts in this episode. He shared: How their weekly 5 hour workshops for clients, to get vibrant conversations going How he uses mus...

In this episode, Tom Pierce, the president and founder of Integrated Information Systems (I2S), shares: Many in his family had been in military service In his first assignment, being assigned to the analysis team because he has a background in math and computers Grabbing an opportunity to use a computer that was unused Doing some simulation modeling solutions Leaving the army in good terms and goi...

I continue my conversation with Jeremy Snyder, the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup. Towards the end of the first part, I asked Jerermy ‘how a developer should think, when using APIS - with so many moving parts - from security and performance aspects’ He answers that and continues to share his story relating to: The extensive experience his co-founder has with API...

In this conversation, Jeremy Snyder, the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup, shares his professional journey and perspectives. Specifically,  How he got into IT in the late 90s, when technology was coming into businesses Early experience in Linux, VAX and Unix and implementing solutions for a translation agency Being responsible to evaluate, implement and integrate...

In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Nanthakumar Arumugam who is a Technologist, Delivery Lead at ThoughtWorks and he’s a Quality Engineer and Financial Expert . In his career spanning over two decades, he shares very interesting stories – Nantha started his career as an instrumentation engineer within Polyester firm. His interest gravitated towards the PLC programming and...

In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Saikat Chakrabarty who is a Technologist, Director, Engineering at Mihup and he’s a AI/ML and Computer Vision Enthusiast . In his career spanning over a decade, he has been a Telecom engineer, prompt engineering, Interaction designer and conversational AI.  Saikat is working in the pioneering world of building AI tools that map the man...

In this episode, I continue my conversation with Presenjit Sarkar, who is a Technologist, Innovator, Disruptor - and  distinguished engineer with Rubrik inc. In his career spanning over 25 years, he has been a researcher, inventor, startup founder among other key roles he has played. I asked Prasenjit, if an entrepreneur should take outside help in building teams and people.. The answer to that qu...

In this episode, Sivaguru is in conversation with Presenjit Sarkar, who is a Technologist, Innovator, Disruptor - and  distinguished engineer with Rubrik inc. In his career spanning over 25 years, he has been a researcher, inventor, startup founder among other key roles he has played. Today, he talks about: His background, growing up years in India Doing his PhD and moving to corporate research, a...

In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman has the conversation with Kamala Srinivasan who is a Technologist, Founder & CEO, Upahara, and women in tech influencer. In her career spanning over 25 years, she has been a STEM engineer, fintech developer, women in tech influencer and startup founder among other key roles she has played. Kamala grew up in a home with professors and engineers she recalls how...

In this episode, my co-host Gayatri continues her conversation with Dan Balcauski, founder and chief pricing officer at product tranquility, a company that helps high-volume B2B SaaS CEOs define pricing and packaging for new products Gayatri asked him what challenges he faced when he became a consultant Dan shares How he did a solo backpacking around the world and the transformational experiences...

In this episode, my co-host Gayatri is in conversation with Dan Balcauski, founder and chief pricing officer at product tranquility, a company that helps high-volume B2B SaaS CEOs define pricing and packaging for new products In this conversation he talks about His student days in 1999, the peak dotcom era Got a job in Austin, Texas Getting into engineering manager role, which included envisioning...

I continue my conversation with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan. In the first part, she talks about how she got into Information systems and her career spanning education and startup sectors.  How she balanced professional and personal demands and challenges. How she never hesitated to get into new areas and was always ready to learn. In this part of the conversation Shai talks about Differences in te...

I am in conversation with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan, who is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the School of Information Systems and Technology at San Jose State University. She is also a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a Master Teacher Award recipient. A special note on this episode: during this conversation Shailaja talks about some very personal moments in her life that some may fin...

This is a continuation of the conversation with Kishore Kumar. He talks about how he started his youtube channel and trigger for his interest on astronomy after ending his formal professional career He talks about how he prepares , be it scripting, location , photography, tools for animation, java scripts and creativity to produce one episode on his channel. His views on “Time” before and after as...

Kishore Kumar is a software professional turned youtuber. He shares his career journey with Sivaguru Starting career as system engineer later moved to programing on mainframes  Moving to the USA and feeling the need of studies did his Masters in computer science . Learning AI way back in 1989 to 1991. How this helped later in his career How his career mirrors the Indian software industry which has...

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Mathan Ramanujam , Product Influencer and Hardware Designer and Director at SiMa.ai, shares his career journey Mathan shares on values on why would you work in a startup - Working for today’s salary or invest in tomorrow’s growth  He also shares matching personal believes in the firm and extracting learning fro...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Mathan Ramanujam , Product Influencer and Hardware Designer and Director at SiMa.ai , shares his career journey Mathan started his journey as a hardware engineer at Atlaz Telecom and identified that creating  Mathan’s growth can be traced very similar to Moore’s law - shares experiences on how tools, circuitry a...

Matt Genovese Founder and CEO of Planorama Design continues his conversation with Chitra and shares his thoughts on- Writing effective stories or work behind defining the requirements  Working in collaboration with the development team, discussing the challenges of an API Issues working with IOT projects and hardware have synchronous issues and different hardware failures What failures to take car...

Matt Genovese Founder and CEO of Planorama Design shares how he - Started learning programming as a kid on 8-bit computers Founding Planorama Design, software experiments Impact of dinner table conversations around trigonometry, tinkering and electronics projects Need to know “why”, diving inside the black box, having the freedom to take things apart to learn Working at Motorola, from fabrication...

This is part 2 of the conversation celebrating the milestone of 250 episodes, with our guest host Gopalan. Gopalan was the first guest on the show and agreed to play host and have the hosts as guests! In part 1, he was exploring aspects related to how the hosts prepare for an episode and how different formats worked for the Software People Stories. In this part, he continues to explore his curiosi...

This a very special episode for all us, hosts - and assume, for you, our listener as well. This is the 250th episode of the Software People Stories. About 5 years ago, A desire to learn something new and leverage that learning to pay it forward to the community, led to the launch of this podcast. What started as Software Lifecycle Stories pivoted to Software People Stories and thanks to all your e...

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Woody Zuill , Expert Coach and co-author of Mob Programming , shares his career journey Balancing the speeches and consulting with consulting engagements Woody shares tips and tricks of being in the speaking networks Woody talks about joy of creating his own businesses - Almost 16 of them is creating  Woody sha...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Woody Zuill , Expert Coach and co-author of Mob Programming , shares his career journey Shares how he joined software development after he created tools to improve his day-to-day life Jokingly Woody mentions how he didn’t have to clean up(unlike doing carpentry) after a hard day at writing code Early experimenta...