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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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38:54

Year end thoughts with Anantha Natarajan

Software People Stories ·

2023/12/09

As we approach the end of a calendar year, many of us have the practice of looking back on the year that was, reflecting on the highs and lows of the year - and shape our dreams and aspirations for the coming year.At Software People Stories, we are running a special series of conversations with people on their own approaches as well as practices and stories of how their thinking has changed over the years.Today, I am in conversation with Anantha Natarajan, my colleague from PM Power and an

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27:19

Creating your great day every day with Bharath Kumar

Software People Stories ·

2023/11/25

In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Bharath Kumar who is a Marketeer from a Technologist, Head Of Marketing & Cx - Zoho Creator and he’s a Marketing and Content Specialist.In his career spanning over two decades, he shares very interesting stories –Started his career in Infosys as a software engineerFound that his interests was in organizing events, quizzes and packaging and presenting the ideas were his strengthsDuring his career as a mainframe engineer, Bharath found that

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32:12

Collaborate, to simplify problems and solutions with...

Software People Stories ·

2023/11/17

In this episode, I asked Tom Pierce, the president and founder of Integrated Information Systems (I2S) responds to my question on how the ‘integrated’ in his company name is internalized by his clients. He responded to that question and shared many more interesting thoughts in this episode. He shared:How their weekly 5 hour workshops for clients, to get vibrant conversations goingHow he uses music in some of his interactionsHis belief in segmentation and appropriate responses, rather than

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26:15

Military experience and software development with Tom...

Software People Stories ·

2023/11/11

In this episode, Tom Pierce, the president and founder of Integrated Information Systems (I2S), shares:Many in his family had been in military serviceIn his first assignment, being assigned to the analysis team because he has a background in math and computersGrabbing an opportunity to use a computer that was unusedDoing some simulation modeling solutionsLeaving the army in good terms and going back to schoolWorking for a defense contractor and then starting his own defense contracting

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31:23

Secure development with Jeremy Snyder

Software People Stories ·

2023/11/03

I continue my conversation with Jeremy Snyder, the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup. Towards the end of the first part, I asked Jerermy ‘how a developer should think, when using APIS - with so many moving parts - from security and performance aspects’He answers that and continues to share his story relating to:The extensive experience his co-founder has with API based architectures and implementationsHow APIs can implement business functions or offer specific

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33:57

Scaling to the cloud with Jeremy Snyder

Software People Stories ·

2023/10/27

In this conversation, Jeremy Snyder, the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup, shares his professional journey and perspectives. Specifically, How he got into IT in the late 90s, when technology was coming into businessesEarly experience in Linux, VAX and Unix and implementing solutions for a translation agencyBeing responsible to evaluate, implement and integrate with various systems and thereby increasing the empathy for users and their situationsMoving to work with

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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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