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

I'm your host Andrew Jelina.

Today I have with me, Barathi Balasab Ramanian,

also known as B.

She's a software engineering manager

at Life Score Labs.

B, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me.

So I don't normally time-stamp or time-capsile the episode.

Right now, we are in the middle of COVID-19 quarantine and

connecting remotely using Squadcast. So thank you for the flexibility be.

Anytime. So when things are more normal what are you up to at

Life Score Labs and Mass Mutual? So Life School Labs is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mass Mutual and

what we do is we're bringing the models that have been developed by Mass Mutual to the consumers and on a regular day

my office is in Boston and I have this beautiful view overlooking the Tea Party so I actually know the Tea

Party happening down to the tea right now but now with the COVID-19 and everything it's

you know working remotely and going with the floor it's a very small team of about 10 members and I think the

interesting thing that we're doing is the fact that it's like a startup

mentality within a huge organizing. So there's the whole set of pros and cons right there, but it's been going really good so far.

Excellent. So way back in the day, what got you interested in technology?

Well, it's actually an interesting story when I first started it's going to make me seem like a dinosaur but in any case when I was first studying I was actually on the track to becoming a doctor so I was actually doing everything medicine related and I remember going for one of the biology classes where you had to actually pin up the rat and then do a dissection and I think I didn't knock out the rat hard enough so while during the

dissection the rat actually came up alive and I'm like yeah okay this is not a good sign

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