Welcome everyone to episode 67 of Underserved.

Today joining me in studio is Parag Shah,

Director of Data Architecture at Rocket Software.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved,

the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,

their insights, and their lessons learned.

And now your host, Andrew Jalina.

Parag, thank you so much for coming down and joining us in studio.

Andrew, thanks for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here.

So when you were young, you grew up in the United States,

but your folks were from India, what was that like?

You know, I was born in Cambridge,

so not too far from this office, actually.

And growing up, it was an interesting upbringing,

having two parents, both from India.

So I'm 100% of Indian descent.

And when I was five years old,

one of the things that I had to do before,

I could go out to play, was I had to write a page of Q-Basic code.

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