Building a strong interoperability solution with Rachana Shenoy

Building a strong interoperability solution with Rachana Shenoy

Author: PM Power Consulting February 7, 2025 Duration: 32:04

Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Rachana Shenoy, Engineering Leader HPE talks about balancing career growth, avid speaker and continuous learner

In this part of the conversation, 

  • Started engineering as a natural choice due to the love of Mathematics
  • Start at HP in the compiler and felt extremely overwhelmed and quickly found the mentor network 
  • She contrasts that with industry ready team members now
  • Joined EMC in their storage management solutions understanding interoperability of OS and hardware and had an organic growth to management 
  • Ownership and accountability and stakeholder management were key skills that she mentors every person.
  • Change is the only constant thing around the roadmap, org structure and ensuring that fluidity needs to be embraced in a large enterprise organization
  • Rachana shares tips and techniques on how leadership skills are imbibed through the career like clear communication, empathize with people
  • Rachana shares her tips on utilization of her time commuting within the Bengaluru for about 25 kms
  • Shares how she’s managing her balance using support system including her father in-law and team members that can be trusted
  • Rachana shares her decision while working in EMC during a particular acquisition and reflections that made her stronger

Rachana Shenoy is a Seasoned Engineering leader with over 18 years of Industry experience, currently working in the Hybrid Cloud Division at Hewlett Packard enterprise. In her current role she leads development teams for both On Prem and SaaS based Cloud Native Enterprise Scale Storage Management Solutions. Rachana is passionate about building self driven and motivated teams , enabling them to build innovative solutions addressing critical customer needs.

Rachana has extensive experience in Domains like Storage, Server, Cloud, Distributed, Enterprise software development. Rachana is also a DEI evangelist and DEI Champion and has been contributing to various Diversity and Inclusion initiatives within and outside the organization. She is also an active member of Lean In Women In Tech community , and believes in paying it forward through community events and activities. 

In her free time Rachana loves to dabble in creative pursuits and is a passionate artist, crafter and art educator. She is also an avid traveller and loves to explore different places, diverse culture and cuisine.


Rachana can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachana-shenoy-4014116a/


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