Software People Stories

In the second part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru continues his conversation with Mohan Ram Mohan talks about The challenges in working with details as well as abstractions The cost of not understanding implicit requirements and the importance of progressive elicitation of requirements How coaching and observations of people who were doing well in these aspects Why crossing the initial hurd...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru is in conversation with Mohan Ram, a senior professional in the IT industry who has played various roles related to networking software development to business line management and now a coach with PM Power Consulting. Mohan shares His growing years in a conservative family in Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu About how his life was comfortable...

In the second part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru is in conversation with Vadeesh Budramane ,Founder and CEO of AlgoShack , shares his career journey Shares his thought processes on why a product company to be started  He also shares the decision parameters that he considered and that’s common across entrepreneurs Journey to be gratifying to the founders and early employees Celebrating ever...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru is in conversation with Vadeesh Budramane , Founder and CEO of AlgoShack , shares his career journey Vadeesh talks about starting in the embedded programming with Time Division Multiplexing and has built and learnt numerous protocols and standards He has also multiplexed his time across different domains such as Automotive, Medical instrument...

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Fred George ,Consulting Developer in Scienta AS and master change agent , shares his career journey Fred shares his experience in creating and nurturing thinking diversity in his London project Ensuring that you create a blameless culture and a wonderful experimentation and that’s what enables innovation to flo...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Fred George , Consulting Developer in Scienta AS and master change agent , shares his career journey Fred is a career IBM developer and speaks about the skills he developed Fred shares his experience in gaining an MBA degree and speaks about how IBM is great in building great people around your Talks about how o...

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Karl Scotland , Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services and a master facilitator, shares his career journey Karl shares his journey of how he became a master facilitator and that started when  he was experiencing tremendous resistance with Scrum. (Karl moved to using Kanban...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Karl Scotland , Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services and a master facilitator, shares his career journey Started his education with a passion with music and quickly found that he was enjoying the software part of the music over creative music Karl has held several engineer...

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Vikrant Viniak , Senior Managing Director of Accenture and a prolific speaker on Technology at the frontier, shares his career journey Started as a mechanical engineer in the areas of supply chain. After taking his management degree in Chicago he chose to become a consultant Shares his reasons for reinventing himself every 3-5 y...

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Dave Farley , Independent Software Developer and Consultant, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. Dave shares his perspective on the new fads that are constantly coming in and what he’s rooting himself into the basics Critical to focus on Fundamentals - exercise on learning, ensure that you have mod...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Dave Farley , Independent Software Developer and Consultant, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd. Dave started his career as a visual designer even before user experience became center stage  He later became a systems engineer in designing large complex software Dave shares his experience in working...

In this episode, Shiv continues his conversation with a colleague in PM Power, Venu Subrmania Iyer. In the previous episode, he asked Venu if testing should always be independent or it can be embedded in the development process itself He shared his answer to that question and more From earlier models of independent testing centers, testing is being shifted left [particularly in Agile approaches],...

In this episode, Shiv is in conversation with a colleague in PM Power, Venu Subrmania Iyer. Venu, who started his career as a systems engineer, shares Starting with hardware, software and testing Born in Kerala and grew up in Alleppey and grew up in Kottayam Studied Electrical Engineering Passion for engineering was inspired by an uncle and it was a difficult journey due to personal situations How...

In this episode, I continue my conversation with our guest Robert Cooke, founder of 3forge, a provider of data virtualization and visualization technology. In this conversation, Robert shares  What was the startup bug that bit him.. The urge to reinvent how software is developed based on experience, after getting a feeling that 90% of the code written is quite similar across teams and organization...

In this episode, our guest is Robert Cooke, founder of 3forge, a provider of data virtualization and visualization technology solutions. In this conversation, Robert shares  His origin story of starting with computers when he was a kid in the 80s His liking to build things - in wood or lego Discovering that he could build a lot more without needing a lot more money, with computers Developing Video...

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Sat (Sathyanarayanan ) Vijayaraghavan, Founder and CEO at Adept Labz AKA "Ajira. Tech" and CASA Retail AI Sat started dabbling with computers at the age of 11 and started keenly interested in problem solving Sat also shares his interests in computers while also sharing his earlier thoughts of following his fathers business and g...

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Bindu Sunil , Sector Head and Engineering Director - Cloud Data Platforms and AI in Wipro.  Bindu started her carrier in Kirloskar as a design engineer for alternators. She then moved to Tata Elxsi as an embedded developer Bindu shares her experience of building the teams being a techie at heart Learnt the basics of cloud right...

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Pramitha Ramaprakash , CEO of Transcend Satellite Technology  Pramitha talks about her passion in aerospace and how that shaped her early experiences while working in Wipro She talks about Satellite launching as an extremely cool team sport as there are several field that come together  Further she shares what it has taken to la...

In the this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Puja Issar, Managing Director of AnitaB.org India Puja started her career in the investment banking world in United Kingdom dealing with multiple banks and large corporates. She talks about the stresses of the job and the highs that came with it Puja talks about her career in 3 different decades with the first decade in advi...

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Vaishali James, ex-CMO of OpenTap, Community Director for AnitaB.org and mentor at HopeWorks Foundation Vaishali starts the episode with a very funny interaction of giving a technology solution ahead of its time She shares her tryst with doing an engagement on brand alignment and how simple steps could be taken at different leve...

In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Palashi V, research scholar with Cornell University Palashi started her career as a software engineer where she played the role of business analysts Her interests in social impact stemmed from Dhirubhai Ambani College where she did her thesis in web tools that empowered women Palashi decided to pivot from software towards the intersecti...

In this episode, I continue my conversation with Jeremy Kriegel. He talks about How UX can help users stay focused and also providing opportunities to take a break or breather to stay productive Micro level thinking and system level thinking May need local inefficiencies for overall system wide efficiency Analogy of a relay race team member, who needs to wait for the moment to take the baton and r...

In this episode, I am in conversation with Jeremy Kriegel, a UX leader and the host of the Saving UX podcast. Jeremy shares Getting into UX accidentally Started in the mid 90s, Undergrad in CMU, Art and English Studying electronic and time based media and working with robotic sculpture A friend asking for help with creating a website Hiring friends and colleagues to start an agency Getting introdu...

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Rohit Salecha, Security Engineering Manager in Disney+Hotstar and book author of GitOps Rohit continues to share the areas that he’s planning to learn in terms of Web3  He shares how he ties complex technologies and the necessity that has driven him to learn it as he’s responsible for security  He shares some o...

In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Rohit Salecha, Security Engineering Manager in Disney+Hotstar and book author of GitOps Rohit talks about his passion towards electronics and how he was experimenting in many of the areas. He also shares how he joined the software journey by accident Rohit believes that every engineer out there needs to be excep...