In this episode, Harish Achappa KM shares
- Choosing mechanical engineering as a subject of study and getting into TCS engineering services
- Working on valves and compressors
- Getting into programming as part if his work
- The experience of having a paid vacation in Italy!
- How his interest in programming developed after starting to use C, C++ as a hobby
- Noticing differences in projects done at client locations v/s in India
- Working directly with users and feeding off the energy based on common questions
- Getting quicker feedback
- Understanding that some of the work cannot be done remotely
- Avoiding assumptions and getting clarifications in context
- Requesting to work in a development project
- Getting an opportunity to work on a public infrastructure project
- Learning the value and benefit of parametrization while programming
- Taking some time to find his feet in a fully software coding role
- His experience of taking up a product manager role, enabled by his ability to ask a lot of clarifying questions
- On product thinking, even for an enterprise solution
- His career advice
- Curiosity and willingness to learn: drive
- Consolidating the learnings
- Taking the responsibility for one’s frustrations
- Are you motivated to build, generate ideas or both
Harish is a product manager with over 23 years of experience; he has been a developer, boot-strapped a firm and been a consultant.
You can reach him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hachappa/
