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- ProductWhat interviewing a room full of AI founders taught me about value
For my EMBA, a classmate and I took the Value Proposition Design canvas to an AI × SaaS founders' meetup and interviewed the room. The gap we found — between inspiration and implementation — is the real product.
- ProductWhatsApp University and the persuasive power of fake news
A talk I gave on how misinformation travels — and what anyone building trustworthy products can learn from how lies spread faster than the truth.
- ProductFrom eighteen years in QA to learning product
After eighteen years making sure other people's products didn't break, I'm learning how to decide what to build in the first place. This is why.
- EngineeringEighteen years inside the databases the world runs on
Upgrades, migrations, RAC, Data Guard, and the occasional ORA-0600 at 2am. What a career deep in Oracle's internals teaches you about complex systems.
- QualityWhat testing taught me about shipping
Functional, regression, performance — the whole gauntlet. And the mindset of breaking things on purpose so customers never have to.
- Life & KidsWhy a career blog also has a 'Life & Kids' section
Eighteen years of career happened alongside two sons, their homework, and a school calendar that doesn't care about release deadlines. Here's why the family half gets its own space.
- Life & KidsBougainvillea doesn't ask permission
On the quiet joy of plants — and what a stubborn bougainvillea and a fussy hibiscus have taught me about patience.
- Life & KidsWhat's cooking: the dishes my family asks for
Cooking is how I switch off. A short tour of the things my kitchen is known for — and the ones the boys actually request.
- Life & KidsWe're building a homestay in the hills
My husband Mani and I are building Kunja Village Homestay in Almora — a small, unique stay. On doing something with your hands, far from a database.