My name is Murali Nandigama. I'm a director in the consumer bank of Barclays International . I manage the core engineering and quality engineering functions globally for the U. S consumer bank. Prior to joining Barclays, I was working for Goldman Sachs. And before that, a bunch of Silicon Valley companies, both in California and sometime in India. That is my story briefly .. as you may have alredy known from my introduction on the webpage, I hold a PhD in physics. Right!! That I consider is the core contributor to the path I was able to take so far in all these years. My aspiration has always bean to have my name as my resume. That is a very audacious aspiration. You know, I heard it from some great guy. I don't remember the name, like, 30 - 35 years ago. The ultimate acheivement of a person is to have his name as his resume. Like Bill Gates, Satya Nadella , Steve jobs .... they don't need a resume. Their name is their resume. So when I was a young kid, I was highly influenced by that statement, so I wanted to have my name as my resume. That was like about 30 years ago. Have I been there ? Definitely not. But did it help me orient my journey in life! .. to be aspirational, to be somebody ... that has definitely helped... Right!! So I wanted to, you know, share an interesting story. Uh, when.. when I was in my undergrad .. One of my teachers has told me about a student Georg Bednorz. ... Bednorz was a 26 years research student... and he was working for Professor Mueller and he studied high temperature superconductivity. Submitted his thesis. In 1986... they published a paper and in 1987 for his Ph.D. thesis, he got the Nobel Prize in physics. That was a world record comparing to other physicists who get noble prize for their work. Like after 20 years, 30 years, sometimes 50 years. This was a world record and that has inspired a bunch of us. And I set out to do such a fundamental research that I aspired to get a Nobel prize for my Ph. D. You know, aspiration is the key..... to achieve something. Right!! You should not have poverty of thought. However, you know if you have a vision and if you don't have an action, it just turns out to be a dream. But if you just act, however hard, however diligently.... but if you don't have a vision, you're just passing the time. So vision and action together creates the history and that is my motto and that is my inspiration. I am trying my best. Oh, and many times I fail, but I still continue to believe that is the right path that will take me to greater heights and even at this age I am still hopeful that I can pull some miracles in the remainder of my professional career life next question.

Global head of core engineering and quality engineering function. In that responsibility, I manage the entire software development lifecycle quality function, uh, mechanize the Ci/Cd pipelines, DevOps pipelines, put guard rails into building a safe and secure and efficient code that can have a minimum time to market while not breaking the bank. Also, I am responsible for the core engineering function. In that capacity, I am running a project called as Path2AWS. Our public cloud trasnformation. If you look at Fintech Enterprises .. fintech enterprises have always bean early adopters of cool technologies. And if you, if you look at you know some examples that may surprise you .. Java collections. There was a lot off debate between Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter whether lambdas should be in Java, whether they should not be in Java. Google vs Oracle. Ultimately, the JDK8 Java collections is contributed by Goldman Sachs. It's GS collections. Goldman Sachs implemented Java collections in house and has been using it for a few years before they made it as the standard JSR. Same goes for Oracle rac. Same goes for a bunch of cool technologies that people take for granted... and they think that came from Silicon Valley. Have actually came from the East Coast fintech companies, right? So banks, especially fintech companies, are you know, they work on the advanced technologies in house, but they operate in a very secure multi firewall perimeter. So going into a public cloud is a much bigger challenge. Not from a technology point of view, but from a data security point of view. So data at rest, data in transit, data in cache... ephemeral data on the Amazon machine instances or Azure VMs or on the Google public cloud ephemeral storage. Does it have sensitive data? Does it have a material nonpublic information? What if somebody hacks it? So this is the major concern. So going to cloud is a very interesting technology challenge from a regulatory standpoint for fintech companies. So I am responsible for the U. S. Consumer bank AWS journey for the applications movement. So that is my that's my you know, briefly, that's my responsibility. Ah, you know my work hours? No, I typically work, you know. 7 to 6 , 7 to 5 with reasonable breaks. I used to travel you know frequently before. Now everybody is working from whereever they are. Right! , so that question is less relevant in the in the current times. But usually a little bit of a travel is involved and that travel is not like you pack your suitcase and keep at home. We travel quite a bit of times goto Europe. We go to India, you know, in other other other cities, in other states, in the United States on work. But it is not like takes the 50% of the time. We are not in the traveling primarily as part of te job. Technology allows us to work from anywhere, effectively and efficiently.

In a workplace...when you are part of the senior management, there will always be conflicting priorities. All of them are important. All of them need to be delivered now. So how do you stack rank competing high pririties and that is the ...and then you have limited time, limited resources and limited budget. However, however much it is even for even a $2 trillion dollar apple has a limited budget and limited time. Nothing. There is nothing that is unlimited, right? So mostly the conflicts come around the prioritization of what needs to be delivered first. Right? So the best way to the best way to handle this kind of negotiations is for you to have the right sensibilities, or emotional quotient, what people call and you understand what is the ah, are you playing on the What Is In It For Me (WiiFM) , channel, for that other person that you're negotiating with and actually having a basic BATNA agreement. You know what is BATNA? It stands for best alternative to a negotiated agreement. If doing nothing and facing the worst consequences is better than doing something in a negotiated agreement....nobody will come to the table. So what is their most that I am willing to cede and what is the least that they're willing to buy it for? If those kind of things match, then you have an agreement. So to be an effective leader. To be an effective individual, forget about leaders. To be an effective individual, you need to always meet and play on the what is in it for me channel to understand what is a What is the red line that you cannot cross with respect to the other person, agreeing to what you are asking for right on most of the times.... If it is always me first, then I may win sometimes, you know, as a culture, most of the mature enterprises encourage collaboration, compromise and helping each other.... So as you are helping others, you will accrue. Um, gratuity points that you may cash in sometimes in a crunch time to get what you want to get done, even though what you're asking may not be the really top off the food stack , right. So it is a matter of a learned experience. You don't need to be born smart. You don't need to be topper of the class to be successful, you need to have the right, uh uh, wisdom and the ability to back off... when it is not worth it to win it any cost .... Eventually, you will build a very conducive and a collaborative and a profitable, mutually beneficial relationship with the leadership and your peers that you can deliver on significant outcomes. Right, So that is the model..