Hello and welcome to this week's edition of underserved the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

I'm your host Andrew Jelina.

I am here this week with Vikas Singh Vee,

a technology leader and former CIO who's worked with tons of engineering teams

over the years.

Vakas, welcome to the show.

Pleasure to be here.

So a question I often ask folks right up front

is, what got you initially excited?

Tell us a bit about your origin story.

Sure. In terms of exposure to technology, I got pretty late.

I would say that when I was in 10th grade,

my brother, he was kind of tinkering with some technologies and all that so I was just

kind of yeah this is this looks cool and then one of my brother's friend he was studying

back home in India in IIT and that's a premier technology school and that

really got me excited and it was around that time outsourcing story was kind of beginning to take shape and things were looking pretty exciting as far as the computers were concerned and at that time I thought like hey you know maybe I would want to make my career in computer engineering.

And that was pretty interesting conversation for me

because in my family, everybody is pretty much

like accountant, both my brothers, they are accountant, my cousins are accountant, and pretty much everybody

so I was talking to my brother and he said hey why engineering why don't you just become an accountant

I can help and guide you. I said,

nope, but my dad was very supportive and he said, hey, whatever you want to do,

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