Day two of NEXT was another day full of interesting interviews! Melanie and Mark sat down for quick chats with Haben Girma about accessibility in tech and Paresh Kharya to talk about NVIDIA. Next, we touched base with Amruta Gulanikar and Simon Zeltser to learn more about Windows SQL Server and .NET workloads on Google Cloud. The interviews wrap up with Henry Hsu & Isaac Wong of Holberton.

Haben Girma

The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. President Obama named her a White House Champion of Change. She received the Helen Keller Achievement Award, and a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. Haben travels the world consulting and public speaking, teaching clients the benefits of fully accessible products and services. She’s a talented storyteller who helps people frame difference as an asset. She resisted society’s low expectations, choosing to create her own pioneering story. Haben is working on a book that will be published by Hachette in 2019.

Paresh Kharya

Paresh Kharya is Group Product Marketing Manager for data center products at NVIDIA responsible for product marketing of NVIDIA’s Tesla accelerated computing platform. Previously, Paresh held a variety of business roles in the high-tech industry, including group product manager at Adobe and business development manager at Tech Mahindra. Paresh has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a bachelors of computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology, India.

Amruta Gulanikar & Simon Zeltser

Prior to joining Google Amruta spent 5+ years as a PM in the Office division at Microsoft working on many different products. Just before she left, she worked on launching a new service and supporting apps - “O365 Planner” which offers people a simple and visual way to organize teamwork. At Google, Amruta owns Windows on GCE which includes support for premium OS & Microsoft Server product images, platform improvements to support Windows workloads on GCE.

Simon Zeltser is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, working with .NET and Windows on Google Cloud Platform.

Henry Hsu & Isaac Wong

Henry Hsu is a software engineer trained at Holberton School. He has experience with C, C++, Python, Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, MySQL/Postgres, Unity, Game Maker Studio, Linux, Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, systems design, algorithms, and devops.

Isaac Wong attends the Holberton School. He has a degree in horticulture from Texas A&M.

Interviews

Edge TPU site
Cloud IoT Edge site
Cloud Armor site
Titan Security Key site
Building on our cloud security leadership to help keep businesses protected blog
Google Cloud Container Registry site
Haben Girma’s website site
Haben Girma’s presentation at NEXT video
San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind site
National Federation of the Blind site
National Association of the Deaf site
NVIDIA site
NVIDIA and Google Cloud Platform site
Google Cloud Platform Podcast Episode 119 podcast
Velostrata site
GKE site
Google App Engine site
Stackdriver Debugger site
Windows on Google Cloud Platform site
SQL Server on Google Cloud Platform site
.NET on Google Cloud Platform site
Holberton School site
Unity site
GKE On-Prem site
TensorFlow site

Where can you find us next?

We’ll both be at Cloud NEXT in Moscone West on the first floor, so come by and say hi! We have chocolate!

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