The people who turn up

Ganesh H S

Founder, Gully Future Foundation

Builds the software, and then works out how to sell it — twenty-one years spent on both sides of that line.

Ranjitha RK

Co-Founder, Strategy & Product, Gully Group

Works out what a business actually needs before anybody writes code — then owns the product that comes out of it.

Harveen Kaur

Co-Founder & COO, Gully Group

Ran placements for three years before moving into HR consulting, so she has watched the hiring process from both ends of the table.

Ankita BM

Co-founder, AggiCA Law Associates

A lawyer who works on the part of workplace law most organisations only think about after something has gone wrong.

Rajesh M

PM, Digital Application Engineering, Indiumsoft

Spent twenty-two years in software, most of it responsible for the people doing the work rather than doing it himself.

Prasad Dalvi

Senior Manager, DSA Modeling, TransUnion CIBIL

Builds the credit risk models a bank uses to decide whether to lend — the part of data science that has a consequence attached to it.

Ashwini Kumar K.R

Principal Product Designer, Independent

Fifteen years of designing enterprise software, where the measure of good design is how much work it takes off somebody's desk.

Jeevitha Pandurangaiah

Data Engineer, Vestas

Builds the data platforms that wind turbines run on, and runs a Toastmasters club — which makes her one of the few engineers who can explain the work as well as do it.

Ipsita Panda

Founder & Principal Designer, Houzeome

Twenty years of running a design firm — which means she can talk about design as a craft and about design as a business that has to pay salaries.

Anita M. N.

Managing Partner, Chamundi Machine Tool Accessories

Runs a machine tool works her father started in 1983 — the shop floor, the drawings and the balance sheet — and has done on her own since 2011.