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Software People Stories

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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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32:31

Accelerating Business Outcomes with Nanthakumar Arumugam

Software People Stories ·

2023/10/15

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 that led him to join the software engineering full timeNantha joined Ready Test Go as a Quality engineer

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30:22

Don't Choose an Easy Path with Saikat Chakrabarty

Software People Stories ·

2023/10/06

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 machine and the personHe’s working in the contact center engineering by understanding the questions and

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23:45

Smart hiring for startups with Prasenjit Sarkar

Software People Stories ·

2023/09/30

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 question and a lot more in the second part of the conversation.Today, he talks about:Taking professional

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37:21

Joys and pains of entrepreneurship with Prasenjit Sarkar

Software People Stories ·

2023/09/22

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 IndiaDoing his PhD and moving to corporate research, as he is more of a hands on personAfter about 15 years with IBM, as a successful research scientist, left to

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37:44

Building Confidence and Career with Kamala Srinivasa

Software People Stories ·

2023/09/16

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 having a clean room with AC blasting made her fascinated with the technology industryKamala shares her

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25:28

Becoming a consultant with Dan Balcauski

Software People Stories ·

2023/09/09

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 productsGayatri asked him what challenges he faced when he became a consultantDan sharesHow he did a solo backpacking around the world and the transformational experiences he gotHow he had to talk himself away from self-talk that would shoot any ideas for entrepreneurshipWanting

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21:26

Pricing Software Services with Dan Balcauski

Software People Stories ·

2023/09/02

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 productsIn this conversation he talks aboutHis student days in 1999, the peak dotcom eraGot a job in Austin, TexasGetting into engineering manager role, which included envisioning product roadmapsDeveloping an interest in articulating value of solutions Signing up for an MBA and doing

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26:08

Making teaching exciting with Shailaja...

Software People Stories ·

2023/08/24

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 aboutDifferences in teaching approaches for young adults and childrenHow she likes to learn when she is interested in a topic, and

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26:51

Balancing professional and personal pressures with...

Software People Stories ·

2023/08/18

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 find disturbing or moving.In this conversation, she talks about:Wanting to do science, but was influenced to

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23:48

Modeling the celestial objects with Kishore Kumar

Software People Stories ·

2023/08/11

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 careerHe 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 astronomy in his life.If you want time for something you will find it.His advice or tips on career

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25:15

Software professional to Youtuber with Kishore Kumar

Software People Stories ·

2023/08/04

Kishore Kumar is a software professional turned youtuber. He shares his career journey with SivaguruStarting 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 careerHow his career mirrors the Indian software industry which has changed shapes over years. How things changed from convincing the US for jobs to how later their trust on

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36:43

Being in the limelight puts a spotlight with Mathan...

Software People Stories ·

2023/08/01

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 journeyMathan 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 from failures and failure in itself Talks about each person needs to think of themselves as an IC irrespective

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31:44

Harnessing your curiosity with Mathan Ramanujam

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/29

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 journeyMathan 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 and semiconductor industry has exponential world and how he has adapted himselfSystem on the chip or SoC is

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32:04

Anticipating adverse events with Matt Genovese

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/26

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 APIIssues working with IOT projects and hardware have synchronous issues and different hardware failuresWhat failures to take care of and what can be ignoredImportance of functional verificationAlong with writing user stories, discovery

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28:31

Diving inside the black box with Matt Genovese

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/22

Matt Genovese Founder and CEO of Planorama Design shares how he -Started learning programming as a kid on 8-bit computersFounding Planorama Design, software experimentsImpact of dinner table conversations around trigonometry, tinkering and electronics projectsNeed to know “why”, diving inside the black box, having the freedom to take things apart to learnWorking at Motorola, from fabrication to production, moving into functional design and verification for SoC for Power PC based RISC

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26:15

Personal lessons from podcasting with guest host Gopalan

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/18

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 curiosity of how the minds of podcast hosts work, in handling planned and unplanned situations.He asksSome things

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31:03

Celebrating 250 with guest host Gopalan

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/14

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 encouragement and love, we are at 250.This episode is a little different from the usual episodes in that we

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37:12

Try experiments Over Talking with Woody Zuill

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/10

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 journeyBalancing the speeches and consulting with consulting engagementsWoody shares tips and tricks of being in the speaking networksWoody talks about joy of creating his own businesses - Almost 16 of them is creating Woody shares early experiments on signs and making new thingsHe shares his passion of making his day productive by

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34:37

Leading from With”Out” with Woody Zuill

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/07

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 journeyShares how he joined software development after he created tools to improve his day-to-day lifeJokingly Woody mentions how he didn’t have to clean up(unlike doing carpentry) after a hard day at writing codeEarly experimentation on pair programming and having fun and how he found that explaining ideas, listening each other and

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31:01

Navigating ambiguity with Mohan Ram

Software People Stories ·

2023/07/04

In the second part of the podcast episode, Shiv Sivaguru continues his conversation with Mohan RamMohan talks aboutThe challenges in working with details as well as abstractionsThe cost of not understanding implicit requirements and the importance of progressive elicitation of requirementsHow coaching and observations of people who were doing well in these aspectsWhy crossing the initial hurdle of winning the confidence of your clients / users is extremely critical for the success of a projectHis

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