I did my engineering from India. Uh, he s college of Engineering in Monday myself. University. I graduated in 1992 long back. And then after that, I worked in, like, Bangla for a couple of small countries. Uh, not purely software. I was electrical electronics engineer. I control systems work for a few years. And in 1996 by the time I had learned myself, uh, we're a couple off courses in college, even though we were, like electronics and communications with some basic and FORTRAN on those things so hard going with Graham a little bit. But after that, I giant a couple of institutes in Bangor. I was working in, like, electron ICS field, ramp upon the programming languages C c plus plus, uh, others. And then I for HCL, Perot Systems is my break I, God to work in the software industry, um, there, uh, Malaysia for a year to work on a telecom project, uh, systems. And then after that, 98 I came to us, uh, worked on the east Coast for a couple of years, uh, in, uh, software development, like C plus plus on the larger distributed applications and after that, slowly and more and more and more towards systems background. Where I imagine eating in. I moved to California for Erickson for a couple of years. I actually built one of the first Syria like application for Ericsson. Uh, okay. Sweet tribute now that it was products live. Uh, integrating telecom boxes with speech and whites is realistic emissions software. After that, uh, Moto San Diego, they work for, like, Nokia for many years. Um, Iran, I think, uh, before the apple revolution and all that, we were doing a lot off these feature phones from San Diego Island. The ASHA. There is our national cities of phones, which were released in India E for that case. Yeah, with 19. I only need for the truth, which built out the software between on the future forms. Um, And then after that, uh, they get bought by Microsoft moment for welcome before more from software on modern automation testing and all that on, uh, I joined by a terrible four years back on guard, Still in software, but more technology, more robotics, automation. Uh, we're getting into, like, yeah, teaching, learning and all that building there. Yeah, company. This building the core software infrastructures for this huge labs, labs, biotech labs run the software like an automated, uh, processes. Okay, I'm gonna in using robotics on other processes, you kind of make it more 25 7. It is. Incidentally, when I came to us, uh, enduring the masters for them at UCSD and did my best computer engineering also so that get up to date on. But I think the court thing was learning. Never stops, so it never stopped for me. Um, experience the same time. The learning, constant learnings Having the key? Um, yes, I would always advise there. Now. Now it is that, especially in the high tech world, experience doesn't count much. That's really interesting to know that. Like, uh, if you can show that you if you can show your skills to learn the No. One thing, you are too curious. You have done nothing. That's like a big first step. Yeah, in my experience of

Yeah, I'm being the software manager. I am responsible for handling world drivers. So with all something we have what is called scheduling software, which let's scientists create the experiments using visual inter pares onda around their experiments. And at the core of it is, it's already talking to different instruments that you think this industry you'll have centrifuge, which will have Steelers killer. You have the food handlers, um, typical experiments done in the lab. So each of those instruments need drivers also integrates those drivers so that we can talk to the instrument using different communications to technologies. So my I am responsible for all the drivers for the company. We have our 300 plus drivers and constantly adding new lovers. The instruments are always created, and, uh, customers are integrating. You're in New York more, uh, X sequencing missions for genomics and the very complicated missions and my team responsible for creating all the drivers. Also, um, we have customers. We constantly worked with Dick Live on my nine months responsible, ensuring that all the software pieces are in place for going in the blind with that, So I have a team off 45 continues in machine and daily basis. My job is to make sure I meet with my president management. Understand the practice belief. Which customer which covers? I have a constant list off a list of highly practiced list, uh, Hillary deadlines and all that. So I woke up that people that list up with So my people early knows what is the priority for the week. We do a daily scrum meeting off 10 minutes every day before the day starts to sync up and make sure everybody is aware of what they're gonna do. And but in itself, we always jump in and help them. To me, it's a constantly evolving day. Today. They are still like we don't strategic planning. We know, uh, keep track of what's coming through the pipeline. We're not just focused on Sharpton daily practice us, but we have a strategy off where we want to be the next two years. Next three years on, we also make sure all those pieces are in place. Uh, London Law product vision. How to move the software's Opel upgraded. I'm also responsible for acceleration Lab downstairs. We have we can actually true. That is a demo. If you're interested? We were in the bringing customers, and it has a fully integrated lab with robots, and everybody comes and well through the diners and the awesome Yeah, machine learning projects. I'm working with a couple of universities. Carnegie, Mellon, Industries one. Um, people. I'm working with them way have a capstone project Master schools doing, and we couldn't access to the lab. And our data. We did A I will bear some mission and perhaps

it Z also a pretty competitive landscape, so we need to be on our toes constantly. Uh, new players are coming in. We have the traditional players in this industry. They have been there for a long time. But recently we also have challenges from outside the industry. For example, there the software companies that Googles and the Bay Area companies are also trying to get into this market. So answering challenges toe find the right talents. Um, keep the skill sets like abated for the team. How do we current? How do we find the best talent on how to, uh, ensure that we're not liking behind? That's the biggest challenge. Okay, I don't Do you want to be updating our skills constantly with evolving deadlines left the mark. We have strict deadlines to meet at the same time, obviously a longer, long term vision on, uh, constantly, I think now, just a Z A product manager and director like she keeps on the horizon and gives us posted on new developments in this industry. There is this true science. Just come up with a cloud based platform and we meet like once a week got once every two weeks to kind of look at the landscape. Yeah. So that's, uh, because was discussed. Examples will help students lender. So for students, uh, approaches which are affect. You are to be clear on what we're trying to do, right? Uh, the things are changing, but there are certain things which are constant. Um, like, there is no substitute for being curious. It's no substitute for constantly learning. Right. So you have to keep yourself, like updating your skills in order will be It was on. Then anything opportunity comes, you should be ableto grab, and they shouldn't be. Some opportunity comes and, uh, you don't You're not in the right mindset, right? Skill set. Uh, you're not prepared for it, monsieur. So thanks for us. At least they should be constantly learning