Ep. 103, Aligned Interests

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Episode #103 of Underserved features Ema Patki. Ema heard a common refrain from her parents growing up, the only two legitimate professions were engineer and doctor. She didn't love EE, but it led her to programming and USC. Protocols that helped the Internet boom also helped Ema advance her career. She is now at Align Technologies, where helping people improve their smiles has a surprising amount of technology behind it. We also discuss Girls Who Code, boomeranging between the US and India, and moving from IT to product.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone, to episode number 103 of Under-Served.
0:05.0	Joining me today is Emma Patke, VP of Software Engineering at Align Technology.
0:10.6	Let's get started.
0:12.6	Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Served,
0:16.6	the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.
0:20.0	Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,
0:23.0	their insights, and their lessons learned.
0:26.0	And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.
0:33.0	Emma, thank you so much for joining us today on Under-Served.
0:36.0	Hi, Andrew. Thank you so much for having me.
0:38.0	It's a pleasure to be here and excited.
0:40.0	Very good.
0:41.0	Now, you grew up in Bombay and you sat on the pre-call
0:44.0	like some other folks who grew up over there.
0:47.0	Your parents said there was only two legitimate professions.
0:49.0	What were they?
0:50.0	Yep, so growing up in Bombay in a family full of engineers and doctors,
0:55.0	there were only two professions, Andrew.
0:57.0	It was either you take medicine or you take engineering.
1:00.0	You know, and my older sister, she's five years older than me,
1:03.0	and she's a doctor, sort of being watching her in med school.
1:06.0	I knew for sure that I didn't want to be a doctor.
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