Software People Stories

In this episode, Shiv will be talking to Gopalan, the Managing director of Global Automation, India.

Gopal, as he is also called, has been in the international IT products and services industry since 1979.

Listen to Gopal sharing some personal stories that touch upon various points including:

* Attitude of working for someone 

* Culture aspects, when working in various cultures 

* Arrogance of a fresher - or how one can miss out the real user needs 

* A tough situation he faced, caused by the differences in implementation of a standard protocol in the Airline industry, which, in hindsight - appears funny 

* Cyclic Redundancy Check – CRC 

* His views on Agile 

* His views on technology / architecture patterns 

* Some suggestions for Skill / capability development for those entering software field now

My name is Sivaguru.

I have been in the IT industry since 1980 - and started my association initially with hardware - building a single board microcomputer - and them switched to software.

Over the years, working with multiple technologies to create solutions across various domains - and working in multiple countries, I gained a lot of experience by doing myself as well as learning from others.

I share two specific learnings in this episode.

1\. The importance of DevOps for every developer

2\. The importance of user experience or designing with the user in mind

Do join me and share your thoughts as well.. .