{"podcast":{"title":"Software People Stories","slug":"software-people-stories-812587","podcast_index_feed_id":812587,"rss_url":"https://feeds.hubhopper.com/8514bfd7d808ffb945fe2bd7d35bd225.rss","website_url":"https://www.pm-powerconsulting.com/software-people-stories-podcast/","image_url":"https://files.hubhopper.com/podcast/314541/1400x1400/software-people-stories_3506.jpeg?v=1744983507","author":"PM Power Consulting","episode_count":402,"summary":"Stories of what worked and sometimes what did not, in the course of discovering, designing, developing and delivering software based solutions – as shared by practitioners who went through these situations.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T06:18:01.199235+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-people-stories-812587"},"episode":{"title":"A real natural with Arundathi Rao","slug":"a-real-natural-with-arundathi-rao","published_at":"2026-04-18T14:53:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-people-stories-812587/a-real-natural-with-arundathi-rao","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-people-stories-812587","url":"https://listen.hubhopper.com/episode/a-real-natural-with-arundathi-rao/33000231","audio_url":"https://play.hubhopper.com/0c5cdc3b69be4b95b71ee7e00c1be2c8.mp3?s=rss-feed&v=4752b57cdabb","summary":"Host: Chitra Gurjar 4 decades and counting, always energized to do something, work is my DNA From post and telegraph to giving tuitions to creating her own agency to study An advocate for herself, nurturing her desire to serve Turning away “assured” job offers to join Defence Labs as a Scientist at CABS Moved onto a “lesser assurance” to join HP People and culture at the heart of her 3+decade stay at HP Challenging status quo, try and fail, Innovation has to be a part of one’s daily life Stay focused on problems that you are solving and layer tools and technology to solve your problem Focus on incremental delivery of value Holding a people vision through the course of her work Strong belief that “AI will improve the quality of jobs” Learning is a constant - continue to build Apply training and learning programs intentionally Working on a market analysis - next gen quoter Strong belief on impact of AI on Healthcare and Education Believing that coaching is something everyone should learn, enable people as answers lie within each one Working with a non-profit Daksham skills and Dreams Designs  Arundathi has been working in technology and leadership related roles for the last 40+ years. She started her career as a Scientist at Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, India. While at DRDO, she was involved in development of Radar transmitter and controller systems. Arundathi joined Hewlett Packard in 1996 and during her 27+ year career in HP and HPE, she has worked in multiple roles across various business units. Under her leadership, HP rolled out multiple market leading internet services related products on HPUX. She was on one of the key leader responsible for setting up Global IT teams offshore centre in India in 2004. She has managed a team of 3000+ t…","meta_description":"Host: Chitra Gurjar 4 decades and counting, always energized to do something, work is my DNA From post and telegraph to giving tuitions to creating her ow…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3161,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/software-people-stories-812587/episodes/a-real-natural-with-arundathi-rao/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-people-stories-812587/a-real-natural-with-arundathi-rao.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}