About Episode
<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Every year, the Software People Stories dedicates the month of March to women guests, to call out their contributions and highlight some women’s perspectives.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today, I am very happy to introduce our guest, Krishna Kumari, who is also a podcaster, hosting the New Indian Woman podcast.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this conversation, Krishna talks about:</span></p><ul><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Her first association with computers during her engineering student days and her first job</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Reflecting on the novelty and curiosity around computers and software that generated an attraction to this sector</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Being a campus hire at an IT organization and moving across various roles over the next 22 years</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Leaving the software industry and volunteering at various NGOs for about 7 years</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Getting back to IT handling the applications portfolio at a large university</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">How programming languages were associated with an invisible class system among the developers with developers wanting to work only on specific languages</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Getting an opportunity to talk to one of her uber-bosses and complaining about not getting an opportunity to work on a language of her choice and how he could make a difference</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">How she kept learning new technologies as they evolved, and as she moved from domain to domain</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Her tips on cross leveraging one’s experience when moving from one domain to another </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">How it is important to understand the user experience and design for that</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Seeking inputs from others as feedback, one gets opportunities to discover one’s strengths</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">How it is important to nurture the quality of transparency to gain the trust of team members and how she discloses her strength areas</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">How a mentor was instrumental in guiding her in switching to the social sector, by making her think what her contribution to the social sector could be</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Finding a niche to contribute, by bringing her experience in process management in the corporate sector, to the social sector</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">How forming genuine relationships with people is very important</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">She shares the reason for starting the New Indian Woman podcast, to share experience and perspectives with more women </span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Her career tips: the importance of the qualities that a person brings to the table</span></li></ul><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Listen on!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">More about Krishna Kumari:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am Krishna and I currently live in Bangalore.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have been interested in planning, productivity and time management related topics, right from my middle school.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Over the years, this expanded to a journey of continuous improvement and learning from others and examining of how I can live my life in a better way. Better for myself and for the people I care.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">These learnings have helped me a lot, no doubt. I have been looking for ways to share the same with the larger community of people around me and learn more and more. And that is the genesis of this blog 'New Indian Woman' and many more things to come…</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And if you are wanting to know more about my background. I come from a small town called Alleppey(now Alappuzha, famous for its backwaters), in Kerala. My mother tongue is Tamil. On the academic front, I have done Engineering in Computer Science and then worked in the new IT industry. I started as a software developer, worked many roles in a leading IT organization. When I was performing the role of General Manager, I decided to leave the corporate world and explore. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This led me to start volunteering for different causes . During this period, I have</span></p><ul><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">been a volunteer with NGOs and citizen groups involved in a range of activities from structuring and managing a variety of programs, translating ideas to project opportunities, interacting with partner organisations to facilitate IT implementation, creating visibility of organization's operations towards stakeholder agencies and so on.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">been a visiting faculty for Undergraduate students at a University for Data Management course .</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">engaged at my children’s school for multiple activities including implementation of new library software using open source tools</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">helped with teaching a Sewing course for Undergraduates at a University as part of their Creative Expressions programme</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">launched my own podcast(yes, available in this site)</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">pursued my hobbies - the ever common reading and of course, you guessed it right, sewing!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></li></ul><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My learnings come from the 2 decades in the IT world (after a simple small town upbringing), my current explorations and interactions with a wide variety of people from all backgrounds . My learning also comes from being a mother to a young adult daughter and teenage son.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Get in touch</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Website : http://thenewindianwoman.com</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Facebook : http://facebook.com/newindianwoman</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Email : krishna@thenewindianwoman.com</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Twitter : https://twitter.com/thenewindianwo1</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenewindianwoman </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>... Show More