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Underserved

Ep. 084, Banging the Drum

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Our 84th episode features Madhu Rajagopalan, Head of Engineering at Wellframe. Madhu's eyes were opened early when he saw how much more malleable software was than hardware. He quickly moved from electrical engineering to software development. This career path led him to several interesting stints at Iron Mountain, HP, and DraftKings prior to his current job. Also discussed - distributed systems development, Boston's embarrassment of sports championship riches, and playing the mridangam.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone, to episode number 84 of Under-Served.

0:04.3

With me today in studio, is Madu Rajagopalan,

0:07.7

head of engineering at WellFrame, let's get started.

0:10.9

Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Serve,

0:15.9

the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

0:19.1

Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,

0:22.4

their insights, and their lessons learned.

0:25.3

And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

0:29.4

Madu, thank you so much for joining us today.

0:36.6

Hi, Andrew.

0:37.5

Thanks for having me and really excited to have a talk with you.

0:40.3

So, way back in the day, you weren't really interested

0:43.5

in being a computer engineer, were you?

0:45.7

So, I was very passionate in kind of like all things,

0:49.3

in engineering, things, how things work,

0:51.9

electrical in general.

0:53.4

And growing up, my brother-in-law was a mechanical engineer,

0:57.7

and he was working for one of the nuclear power stations in India.

1:02.4

And so, I used to visit them in summer,

1:05.1

and he actually would take me to the power plant.

1:07.9

And I would go in there, and I was always fascinated

1:11.9

by big machines, right?

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