Staying Relevant with Priya and Sridhar Parthasarathy

In this episode, Priya and Sridhar Parthasarathy share their perspectives with Sivaguru on:Priya's determination to do MCA, after missing an opportunity to do engineering in BidarStarting her career with Robert Bosch and moving on to Mascot and Wipro as a project leader and getting into ERP solutionsSetting up the EAI practice in CognizantWanting to contribute to the Digital India initiative and taking up a role in NASSCOMSridhar's journey starting at BITS Pilani and a small firm before doing his masters and then to Tata Unisys, before joining WiproNow, a cybersecurity consultant, managing his own venture, Purple TeamHow the excellent support from family has been helping Priya both at home and career, complemented by the guidance from supervisors and managers at workPriya's experience of setting up and growing the EAI practiceSridhar shares how he saw his mother being a career woman and was keen on marrying a career womanHis philosophy of having relationships based on equality and mutual respectThe support he gets from Priya in his career movement decisionsBeing sounding boards from the industry for each otherSridhar also shares instances where he was able to encourage and support women facing some challenges at work, due to demands on their time or commuteHow, Having a woman entrepreneur in the team helps create the empathy needed at the workplacePossible reasons why we find few women in cybersecurityThe impact of working from home on balancing work and personal demandsTheir views on IT as a career choice and mid career questions that many of us facePriya is spearheading NASSCOM's Future Skills initiative with the remit of skilling/reskilling/upskilling of over 4 million people in cybersecurity for India by 2025. She has seen all the opportunities and challenges that women encounter both as an engineer and as a leader. Prior to her stint in NASSCOM she was heading Cognizant's Security practice. Priya is an alumna of SJCE Mysore.Contacts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-madhavan-b79a3714/Future Skills: https://futureskills.nasscom.in/Sridhar heads the cybersecurity consulting firm Purple Team, specializing in cloud security. In the 30+ years he has been in the Indian software industry he has been trying figure out what makes it tick. Every time he thinks he has, they change the rules!  Reach him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sridharparthasarathy/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sridhuWebpage: www.purpleteam.inThis podcast was created on Hubhopper studio. If you wish to start your own podcast for free, visit www.hubhopperstudio.com. Hubhopper is India's leading podcast creation platform. Start your podcast with Hubhopper studio & get your voice heard across platforms like Spotify, Gaana, Google podcasts, Wynk Music and more. Click on the link in the episode description or visit www.hubhopperstudio.com