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Underserved

Ep. 091, Chief Integration Officer

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode #091 features Sesh Tirumala, CIO of PagerDuty. Sesh is a podcast veteran, and shares with us his experiences implementing systems in 120-degree heat, being a technologist in Appalachia, and managing incremental IT costs. Sesh has felt the pain of having to justify IT's existence, proving it is a revenue generator and not just a cost center. We also talk about implementing charitable giving in small companies vs. large companies.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone, to episode number 91 of Under-Served.

0:05.6

With me today is Sesh Tiramala, CIO at PagerDuty.

0:09.8

Let's get started.

0:11.8

Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Serve, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,

0:19.3

where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.

0:25.4

And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

0:32.8

Sesh, thank you so much for joining us today on Under-Serve.

0:36.2

Thank you, Andrew, so happy to be here.

0:38.3

So, growing up, going to National Institute of Technology, you worked really into computers

0:44.2

more into electronics engineering, right?

0:46.5

That's right, Andrew, when I joined school back in the day, honestly, didn't get a chance

0:50.5

to look at computers, so I started off in electrical and electronics engineering.

0:54.4

That's what I did, my bachelor's in engineering.

0:57.2

It's a four-year degree.

0:58.2

It's in a lovely coastal city called Mangalow, just like Mangalow.

1:02.2

It's a twin city, so I really got into electrical engineering there.

1:05.9

And then, after you graduate, what are you end up doing?

1:08.7

Right after college, I joined a company, a Swedish multinational company called ABB,

1:14.2

which is Asia-Brown Bory.

1:16.0

So they are pioneers in electrical engineering, building transformers and microprocessor-based

1:22.8

technology to really help a lot of the electrical grade that we all use power in our daily lives.

1:29.6

So when you think of power and distribution over long distances, how do you really protect

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