Tech Heroes podcast host, Aliza Carpio interviews Elangovan Shanmugam, Distinguished Engineer at Intuit and poet. Elangovan Shanmugam is a deeply passionate Distinguished Engineer at Intuit who thrives on innovation. Over his 26 year career, he’s built scalable and high performing architectures, SaaS solutions, mobile services, multi-domain integration platforms and beyond. He’s designed and developed many protocols such as custom HTTP protocol, SMTP protocol, and OFX Billpay protocol. As a tech leader, he discusses the importance of diversity within teams, his career journey to becoming a distinguished engineer, and how he believes code is like poetry.