Career Journeys Revealed

Send us Fan Mail What if your most meaningful breakthroughs live on the far side of discomfort? We sit down with repeat founder and technologist Madhu Chamarty to unpack the real mechanics of a nonlinear career—how hard work eclipses raw talent, why acceptance beats resistance in the trough of despair, and how to design decisions that reduce failure without shrinking your ambition. From research l...

Send us Fan Mail Kelly Vincent has spent 25 years in product management across Cisco, Juniper, NetApp, eBay - and she'll tell you she still doesn't have a clear path. That's not false modesty. It's the point. In this episode, Kelly, now Chief Product Officer at Auctane, walks through the three seasons of her career: do anything, product management, and leadership. Each transiti...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 7, Han and Hitesh sit down with Hugh Williams, who went from teaching himself Fortran in rural Australia to co-inventing infinite scroll at Microsoft and leading search teams at eBay and Google; holding 38 US patents along the way. In this episode, Hugh shares how Microsoft's "six to eight people can change the world" mentality fundamentally changed what...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 6, Han and Hitesh sit down with Marty Abbott, whose unconventional path took him from Army officer and paratrooper to CTO at eBay during its most explosive scaling period, and eventually to co-founding AKF Partners nearly two decades ago. Since then, he's worked with organizations ranging from high-growth startups to the White House—including helping fix healthcare...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 5, Han and Hitesh sit down with Balki Kodarapu. Balki has built his career across 20+ years in fintech, analytics, and healthcare, evolving from individual contributor to fractional engineering leadership. In this episode, he discusses the critical decisions that shaped his transition from hands-on engineering to leading multiple companies simultaneously, and shares ess...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 4, Han and Hitesh talk with Steve Heyman, CEO of SnowOwl, who discovered that true scale comes not from solving impossible problems yourself, but from creating systems where entire teams can tackle them together.  From writing web servers that handled a billion daily requests to building organizations from 0 to 80 people, Steve shares how he evolved from elite engineer...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3, Han and Hitesh sit down with Sagar Shukla , CEO of Foresight . Sagar shares his journey from being employee #10 at DealCloud through its acquisition and IPO, to eventually starting his own company. In this episode, he discusses how navigating through brutal client demands and data disasters taught him resilience, why advocating for himself revealed when it was time t...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 2, Han and Hitesh sit down with Bala Meduri . Bala has built his career specializing in data and AI. In this episode, he discusses the professional decisions that enabled him to transition his career from leading foundation teams to business teams at a Fortune 500 company.  Support the show Find us on LinkedIn! Han & Hitesh

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 1, Han and Hitesh share their vision for this podcast — creating a space where tech leaders can learn from authentic stories, not sanitized success narratives. Expect candid insights, tactical advice, and hard-won wisdom from those who've shaped technology's frontier. Support the show Find us on LinkedIn! Han & Hitesh