Software People Stories

Apr 11 2025 336 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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Conversation with a Cloud Computing Pioneer, David Young

Apr 11 2025 48 mins  
My guest today is David Young,Founder at Federated Computer. He has been a pioneer in cloud computing even before the term was invented. In fact, he and his team helped invent the term.In this conversation we could recall many of the developments of a couple of decades ago as well as what keeps him engaged now, at Federated computer.During this conversation, David touches upon:Intr

Believing in the happenstance of hard work with Karthik (KK) Karunakaran

Apr 04 2025 59 mins  
Today, as part of the women’s special series in March, 2025, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Karthik Karunakaran(KK), CEO, co-founder of Mobius software and chief strategist Xtract.io, male ally for women continuing their career and a serial entrepreneur talks about his career journey. KK started his career in Tata Steel after completing production engineering in NI

Adaptability, Empathy, and Breaking Comfort Zones with Veena Rao

Mar 28 2025 55 mins  
Today, as part of the women’s special series in March, 2025, my guest is Veena Rao, SVP & Global Head, Corporate Lending at Finastra with over 25 years’ of experience in financial services and banking technology.In this conversation Veena sharesHer early influences and being adaptableHer education and career pathHer philosophy re career growthInsights from her leadership journe

Journey in Innovation & Leadership with Ponni Krishnamoorthy

Mar 21 2025 43 mins  
Today, as part of the women’s special series in March, 2025, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Ponni Krishnamoorthy, Director and Global head of Telco cloud in Nokia talks about breaking societal expectations to achieving career goals - Ponni shares about her humble background and Her roots in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, and how her upbringing shaped her career choices and

Learn, Unlearn and Re-Learn with Bindhu Unny

Mar 14 2025 43 mins  
Bindhu Unny is a leadership coach, podcast host and Social Entrepreneur, who straddles various mediums giving all her work a unique stamp of inherent creativity. She has 20 years of global experience working for corporates in various high-performance roles that span across Software development, Enterprise Marketing, Product Design, Customer Experience and Sales. During the course o

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