EPISODE · Jun 26, 2026 · 26 MIN
#151 Sravanthi Gondi on 19 Years in ERP, AI in Consulting, and Never Getting Comfortable
from PreVetted Podcast · host Federico Ramallo
Sravanthi Gondi is a PeopleSoft Finance Consultant at Saicon with nearly two decades of ERP experience spanning PeopleSoft Financials, HRMS, and Oracle Cloud. She currently serves as Finance Deputy Lead for the Cardinal Production Support Project at the Commonwealth of Virginia, overseeing the entire finance system while leading a major PeopleSoft upgrade in parallel.In this episode, Sravanthi shares how she broke into IT with zero coding knowledge and a production engineering degree, taught herself to code in a year, and landed at Oracle India. She traces her career through 11 years at Accenture, where she led security automation for a statewide HCM project covering over 100,000 users, and into her current senior consulting role.We also talk about what makes PeopleSoft's customizability still relevant against cloud-first alternatives, what changes when you move from building to configuring in Oracle Cloud, and how AI is transforming ERP consulting: not by replacing consultants, but by turning month-long tasks into days. Sravanthi is OCI Generative AI certified and clear-eyed about what that means for the next generation of the profession.And she shares the story behind her boldest decision: arriving in the US seven months pregnant, husband beside her having left his job, driven by a dream she had carried since childhood. Her advice to anyone on a hard path: never get comfortable, start with the struggle, and keep climbing.About Sravanthi Gondi🏦 PeopleSoft Finance Consultant | ERP and Oracle Cloud Specialist | Saicon- 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/sravanthi-gondi-15865317/- 🌐 https://www.saicon.com/About Federico Ramallo ✨👨💻🌎🚀 Software Engineering Manager | 🛠 Founder of DensityLabs.io & PreVetted.ai | 🤝 Connecting 🇺🇸 U.S. teams with top nearshore 🌎 LATAM engineers- 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/framallo/- 🌐 https://densitylabs.io- ✅ https://prevetted.ai🎙 PreVetted Podcast 🎧📡- 🎯 https://prevetted.ai/podcast- 🐦 https://x.com/PrevettedPod- 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/prevetted-podcast00:00 Introduction to Sravanti Gandhi's Journey01:31 Early Career and Transition to ERP Consulting04:47 PeopleSoft Financials: A Deep Dive07:48 Managing Complex Implementations and Integrations10:37 The Role of AI in ERP Consulting13:24 Skills for Success in ERP Consulting16:06 Personal Journey: Growing Up in India19:17 Cultural Adaptation and Family Values22:06 Advice for Future Generations24:56 Final Thoughts and Reflections
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Sravanthi Gondi is a PeopleSoft Finance Consultant at Saicon with nearly two decades of ERP experience spanning PeopleSoft Financials, HRMS, and Oracle Cloud. She currently serves as Finance Deputy Lead for the Cardinal Production Support Project at the Commonwealth of Virginia, overseeing the entire finance system while leading a major PeopleSoft upgrade in parallel.In this episode, Sravanthi shares how she broke into IT with zero coding knowledge and a production engineering degree, taught herself to code in a year, and landed at Oracle India. She traces her career through 11 years at Accenture, where she led security automation for a statewide HCM project covering over 100,000 users, and into her current senior consulting role.We also talk about what makes PeopleSoft's customizability still relevant against cloud-first alternatives, what changes when you move from building to configuring in Oracle Cloud, and how AI is transforming ERP consulting: not by replacing consultants, but by turning month-long tasks into days. Sravanthi is OCI Generative AI certified and clear-eyed about what that means for the next generation of the profession.And she shares the story behind her boldest decision: arriving in the US seven months pregnant, husband beside her having left his job, driven by a dream she had carried since childhood. Her advice to anyone on a hard path: never get comfortable, start with the struggle, and keep climbing.About Sravanthi Gondi🏦 PeopleSoft Finance Consultant | ERP and Oracle Cloud Specialist | Saicon- 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/sravanthi-gondi-15865317/- 🌐 https://www.saicon.com/About Federico Ramallo ✨👨💻🌎🚀 Software Engineering Manager | 🛠 Founder of DensityLabs.io & PreVetted.ai | 🤝 Connecting 🇺🇸 U.S. teams with top nearshore 🌎 LATAM engineers- 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/framallo/- 🌐 https://densitylabs.io- ✅ https://prevetted.ai🎙 PreVetted Podcast 🎧📡- 🎯 https://prevetted.ai/podcast- 🐦 https://x.com/PrevettedPod- 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/prevetted-podcast00:00 Introduction to Sravanti Gandhi's Journey01:31 Early Career and Transition to ERP Consulting04:47 PeopleSoft Financials: A Deep Dive07:48 Managing Complex Implementations and Integrations10:37 The Role of AI in ERP Consulting13:24 Skills for Success in ERP Consulting16:06 Personal Journey: Growing Up in India19:17 Cultural Adaptation and Family Values22:06 Advice for Future Generations24:56 Final Thoughts and Reflections
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