Episode Details

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.

Today, I am very happy to introduce our guest, Krishna Kumari, who is also a podcaster, hosting the New Indian Woman podcast.

In this conversation, Krishna talks about:

• Her first association with computers during her engineering student days and her first job
• Reflecting on the novelty and curiosity around computers and software that generated an attraction to this sector
• Being a campus hire at an IT organization and moving across various roles over the next 22 years
• Leaving the software industry and volunteering at various NGOs for about 7 years
• Getting back to IT handling the applications portfolio at a large university
• How programming languages were associated with an invisible class system among the developers with developers wanting to work only on specific languages
• 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
• How she kept learning new technologies as they evolved, and as she moved from domain to domain
• Her tips on cross leveraging one’s experience when moving from one domain to another 
• How it is important to understand the user experience and design for that
• Seeking inputs from others as feedback, one gets opportunities to discover one’s strengths
• How it is important to nurture the quality of transparency to gain the trust of team members and how she discloses her strength areas
• 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
• Finding a niche to contribute, by bringing her experience in process management in the corporate sector, to the social sector
• How forming genuine relationships with people is very important
• She shares the reason for starting the New Indian Woman podcast, to share experience and perspectives with more women 
• Her career tips: the importance of the qualities that a person brings to the table

Listen on!

More about Krishna Kumari:

I am Krishna and I currently live in Bangalore.​

I have been interested in planning, productivity and time management related topics, right from my middle school.​

Over