Systems thinking, Social bonding & new contracts with Jithu Gopal
Intro: Jithu Gopal is a fintech product leader based in Bangalore, with 18+ years across engineering, consulting, and product. He is AVP Product at Scripbox and currently owns the charter of building the advisory experience that’ll help a million families make confident choices about their portfolios. Before Scripbox he co-founded Nilenso, a boutique technology consulting […]
Business Before Technology with Mario
In this episode of Software People Stories, I speak with Mario Lewis, a manufacturing specialist turned IT expert with over 35 years of experience. He talks about his career that began far away from software—in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, operations, and quality—and eventually found its way into the software services world. We talk about what manufacturing […]
Making Products Matter with Saraswathi Shant Kumar
In this episode of Software People Stories, I speak with Saraswathi, a marketing leader with over 15 years of cross-industry experience, about the role of marketing in technology—especially how product marketers translate technical ideas into stories customers can understand and care about. We talk about digital communication, customer empathy, product adoption, AI in marketing, useful […]
Accounting, ERP and Change management with Chander Sankaran
My guest today is Chander Sankaran, an ERP and change management Specialist. With a professional background in finance and accounting, he has played many cross-functional roles that bridge the gap between finance and information technology. In this conversation, Chander talks about Beginning his career in finance and accounting, then entering software through early ERP implementation […]
An Idea Today, an Outcome Tomorrow with Mathangi Sri Ramachandran
My guest today is Mathangi Sri Ramachandran, Co-Founder of YuVerse. The conversation included Mathangi ’s early fascination with data-driven decision-making → AI as a force for democratisation → empathy at scale → career choices driven by impact → sustaining a long career as a woman → the ecosystem behind innovation and patents. 00:00 – Introduction: […]
Enabling Better Decisions Through Data with Sree Krishna Kumaraswamy
My guest today is Sree Krishna Kumaraswamy, known more popularly as Krishna, a data and analytics leader with over 20 years of experience spanning consulting and large enterprise technology companies In this conversation, Krishna traces his journey from growing up in Chennai with an expected engineering path to discovering mathematics and statistics through the Indian […]
AI, Integration, and Innovation with Elangovan Shanmugam
My guest today is Elangovan Shanmugam, a seasoned software professional with over 30 years of experience. Among the multiple roles Elangovan has played are Distinguished Engineer, Director of Engineering, leading strategic AI transformation initiatives in a large organization. In this conversation Elangovan: Traces his journey from FoxPro and 4MB RAM days to AI engineering Shares […]
Leading Through Every Technology Wave with Indira vidyaprakash
In this episode of Software People Stories, Gayatri Kalyanaraman speaks with Indra Vidyaprakash, Vice President | Workday Chennai Site Leader, for a conversation spanning three decades of technology evolution. From her early fascination with programming in Coimbatore and her journey through Cornell University, Oracle, and Silicon Valley, to returning to Chennai to establish and scale […]
From Navy to SaaS to AI with Ian Hogg
My guest today is Ian Hogg, the Chairman of SolvedBy.ai, an applied AI company helping SaaS vendors embed enterprise-grade forecasting, demand and decision intelligence directly into their platforms. In this conversation, Ian shares his background, from the Royal Navy and Xerox to building early web businesses, a SaaS platform, and an AI-focused company. He describes […]
From H4 to CEO: Building a Life and Software Company with Rajashri Kidambi
In this episode of Software People Stories, Gayatri Kalyanaraman sits down with Rajshri Kidambi, CEO of Radus Software LLC, for an inspiring and deeply personal conversation. Rajshri shares her journey from arriving in the United States as an H4 dependent to building a successful software company serving federal agencies for over two decades. Together, they […]
