Software People Stories

Mar 07 2025 331 ep. 34 mins 17

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Stories of what worked and sometimes what did not, in the course of discovering, designing, developing and delivering software based solutions – as shared by practitioners who went through these situations.

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Startup Struggles to Global Leadership with Vidya Kabra

Mar 07 2025 50 mins

Our regular and long time listeners know that we dedicate the month of March every year for our special women guests.Welcome to the first special episode for March, 2025.In this episode, I am in conversation with Vidya Kabra, a Global Tech and QA leader with over 30 years of experience in the global IT industry.She talks about: - Overcoming challenges from a traditional Marwadi fam

Full Stack leadership with Paramu Kurumathur

Feb 28 2025 45 mins

Sivaguru is in conversation with the serial author and colleague at PM Power, Paramu Kurumathur.They talk aboutThe trigger for the upcoming book is related to leadership.How this book builds on previous books but focuses on general leadership principles.The three aspects of leadership involving execution, business, and personal growth.Importance of reconciling leadership styles in

Live a life that you are excited about with Rachana Shenoy

Feb 21 2025 29 mins

I am continuing this conversation with Rachana Shenoy, Engineering Leader HPE talks about balancing career growth, avid speaker and continuous learnerIn this part of the conversation, Rachana shares her stress and delivery pressures balancing it with employee engagement scores She shares some of the key techniques for budding managersCreating an environment of fun and accountabilit

Building a strong interoperability solution with Rachana Shenoy

Feb 07 2025 32 mins

Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Rachana Shenoy, Engineering Leader HPE talks about balancing career growth, avid speaker and continuous learnerIn this part of the conversation, Started engineering as a natural choice due to the love of MathematicsStart at HP in the compiler and felt extremely overwhelmed and quickly found the mentor network She contrasts that with indu

Creating and Nurturing High Performance Teams with Hikari Senju

Jan 30 2025 27 mins

I continue my conversation with Hikari Senju, Founder and CEO of Omneky, an AI platform that generates, analyzes, and optimizes personalized ad creatives at scale.In this part of the conversation, Hikari talks about:The need to focus on his customers - the advertisers’ needsAdapting to new technologies and standards such as cookieless futureThe inspiration to start his current co

Serial Entrepreneurial experience with Hikari Senju

Jan 24 2025 27 mins

I am in conversation with Hikari Senju, Founder and CEO of Omneky, an AI platform that generates, analyzes, and optimizes personalized ad creatives at scale.In this part of the conversation, Hikari talks aboutHis background and how the influence of one of his uncles got him interested in computersHis serial entrepreneurship arc, with two successful startups and in his third venture

AI and customer experience with David G Ewing

Jan 17 2025 27 mins

I continue my conversation with David G. Ewing, CEO of Motiv. I asked David about how he thinks AI based approaches are likely to impact the customer experience.He shares how this can be used as a powerful tool to improve customer experience.He also talks about his new venture ContentLion that helps companies centralize and manage their contentHe touches upon aspects of data securi

Customer experience first with David G Ewing

Jan 11 2025 26 mins

I am in conversation with David G Ewing, CEO of Motiv. In this first part of the conversation, David talks about:His initial days in Detroit, where he grew upMeeting the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison and how that influenced some of his later decisions in choosing the area of workWhen building solutions, how and why technology under the hood has to be invisible, while focusing primar

Balancing priorities with Gorkem Ercan

Jan 04 2025 23 mins

I continue my conversation with Gorkem Ercan, founding Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Jozu. Gorkem has experience working and leading teams with various technologies ranging from building IDEs, to building mobile phones, and CI/CD systems. He is an avid contributor and supporter of open source.In this part of the conversation, Gorkem talks about:Time Management and Prioritizatio

Contributing to the Open Source movement with Gorkem Ercan

Dec 28 2024 27 mins

I am in conversation with Gorkem Ercan, founding Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Jozu. Gorkem has experience working and leading teams with various technologies ranging from building IDEs, to building mobile phones, and CI/CD systems. He is an avid contributor and supporter of open source.In this conversation, Gorkem talks about:Gorkem's Background:Early interest in computersDisc