Software People Stories

Software People Stories

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.

Episodes

March 24, 2023 30 min

In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Pramitha Ramaprakash, CEO of Transcend Satellite Technology 

  • Pramitha talks about her passion in aerosp...
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In the this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Puja Issar, Managing Director of AnitaB.org India

  • Puja started her career in the investment banking world in United Kingdom dealing with multiple banks and large corporates. She talks about the stresses of the job and the highs that came wi...
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In this podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Vaishali James, ex-CMO of OpenTap, Community Director for AnitaB.org and mentor at HopeWorks Foundation

  • Vaishali starts the episode with a very funny interaction of giving a technology solution ahead of its time
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In this episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Palashi V, research scholar with Cornell University

  • Palashi started her career as a software engineer where she played the role of business analysts
  • Her interests in social impact stemmed from Dhirubha...
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February 26, 2023 35 min

In this episode, I continue my conversation with Jeremy Kriegel. He talks about

  • How UX can help users stay focused and also providing opportunities to take a break or breather to stay productive
  • Micro level thinking and system level thinking
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In this episode, I am in conversation with Jeremy Kriegel, a UX leader and the host of the Saving UX podcast.

Jeremy shares

  • Getting into UX accidentally
  • Started in the mid 90s, Undergrad in C...
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February 10, 2023 21 min

In the second part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Rohit Salecha, Security Engineering Manager in Disney+Hotstar and book author of GitOps

  • Rohit continues to share the areas that he’s planning to learn in terms of Web3 
  • He sha...
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In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Rohit Salecha, Security Engineering Manager in Disney+Hotstar and book author of GitOps

  • Rohit talks about his passion towards electronics and how he was experimenting in many of the areas. He also shares how he joined the softw...
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January 27, 2023 32 min

In this second part of my conversation, Bill Hall, President of Simulation Studios shares

  • Some of his professional failures when he was given large responsibilities at a very young age
  • How sims enable executives to get a feel for the impact of their decisions and...
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January 20, 2023 26 min

In this conversation, Bill Hall, President of Simulation Studios shares

  • How he used to be part of a band
  • Then deciding to go to college and doing some work for Apple
  • Getting into roles that needed to turnaround o...
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January 14, 2023 34 min

In this episode, I continue the conversation with Steven Aberle, founder of a company in stealth mode, working on domain aware, large language model based processing for very niche applications.

In the previous episode, Steven spoke about his origin story and also how he got into and some of the ...

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Hope you had a wonderful start to the new year.

This episode is special for multiple reasons.

This is one of the few episodes when I had the conversation with a guest in person - and that was also video recorded, with a firep...

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December 27, 2022 16 min

This is another year end special episode.

As coaches engaged with various organizations and teams, PM Power coaches are always learning, adapting, helping others internalize good practices in work and life situations.


We ...

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December 16, 2022 12 min

This is a special episode.

After a long time, the co-hosts of the show had an opportunity to get together to reflect on what the impact of this podcast has been on our own lives and ways of working.


We also talk about wha...

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In this episode, the conversation continues with Bhaktha Muralidhran, AVP, Unified Communications at Sompo International..

In the first part, he shared:

  • A brief history of some of the computer networking technologies based on his experience
  • Working on some of the emerging standards at that time
  • Exploring roles in sales and marketing support
  • Preferring to work with customers and solve their problems using appropriate technologies
  • I as...
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In this episode, Bhaktha Muralidhran, AVP, Unified Communications at Sompo International shares:

  • His first job to develop electronics solutions for use in the Indian Navy, for data collection
  • Getting an exposure to software towards the end of his course and liking it
  • After masters, getting a job at Digital and getting an opportunity to work on ethernet that was just becoming more widely adopted
  • Creating an ethernet with existing ha...
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November 25, 2022 24 min

In this episode, the conversation continues with Maha Mahadevan, CEO of BOSS Solutions - a company providing technology solutions for ITSM, Help desk and 811 ticket management for the damage prevention industry. Maha talks about

  • How he built and kept the team together and stay motivated
  • How he bridges the gap between developers and actual users
  • How they sharpened the positioning and chose industry segments to operate in
  • How to...
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November 17, 2022 24 min

In this episode, Shiv is in conversation with Maha Mahadevan, CEO of BOSS Solutions - a company providing technology solutions for ITSM, Help desk and 811 ticket management for the damage prevention industry. Maha shares

  • His origin story of getting into IT after graduating in electrical engineering
  • Getting a call from a friend asking if he would like to start a business
  • Wanting to create IT solutions
  • How he approached a sellin...
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In this episode, the conversation continues with Jutta Eckstein, an independent coach, consultant and trainer, based in Germany. 

In the first part, she shares-

  • Her origin story as a product engineer
  • Transition from an engineer to a coach
  • The importance of listening

We continue the conversation with: 

  • In her initial explorations with organizations, one pattern she found is
  1. The understanding fo...
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In this episode, Jutta Eckstein, an independent coach, consultant and trainer, based in Germany, shares 

  • Her origin story of starting as a product engineer, with an interest in software development
  • Started as a trained teacher and when the need for teachers dropped, went on to study product engineering and studying Pascal - and completely falling in love with software development
  • Also getting trained as pollution control commissio...
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