In this episode, Raghu Viswanathan, knows as Raghu, shares his story with details of
- Being an alumnus of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, which got the first computer in India
- His initial ‘hate’ for computer science, mainly due to the use of punched cards!
- Joining TCS [Tata Consultancy Services] as a management consultant
- Having to play the role of an IBM expert on his first overseas project, as an individual contributor with no other colleagues with him
- Being asked to teach IBM to the client and seeking support from his manager
- Gaining confidence after that successful assignment
- Writing code the traditional way – in Australia – from creating pseudo code and getting it reviewed before writing a single line of code
- If you want to work on a good project, think through, write pseudocode, consult with people
- How the rigour at ISI prepared him for increased confidence in the future
- The importance of understanding the domain for a developer
- How, understanding the business [and implications] help in one situation to not only avoid a penalty, but also help the bank make money
- The evolution of the concept of offshoring or distributed working in his organization
- Finding major lifestyle changes in young Indian professionals when he came back to India
- Feeling happy about India’s progress over the years
- Trekking and volunteering and pacing his activities
- The joys of retirement
- How he discovered the interest in trekking
- His career tips
- His perspective in Decentralized Finance [DeFi]
Viswanathan Raghu, Started his career as consultant in TCS. Later working with Various firms like UBS(Formerly Swiss Bank) ,Bank of New York, Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank and Russel Investments.
Was head of change for Finance in Deutsche bank’s service center in Mumbai before relocating back to US. Responsible for implementing Process efficiencies in the offshored processes. Implemented Finance’s strategic transformational program for Financials and Regulatory reporting. Program enabled offshoring of globally consistent re-engineered processes to the service center.
Also Managed -Vendor delivery management, Departmental management, IT Program / Project management, Globally managed large and diverse teams for the full project life cycle.
His Specialties: International delivery experience in US, European and Asian work cultures. Vendor business application product implementation. Wide Investment banking domain knowledge & management experience across functions. Cross functional IT program management. Full life cycle experience in managed services implementation. Global manager of large and diverse teams for the full project life cycle. Prepared budgets and managed financials for an entire department.
You can reach him @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vraghu/
