Guest Keshav Puttaswamy was excited to be able to dabble in the full liberal arts curriculum of college and found an interest in computer science. When he had the opportunity to intern at Microsoft in a rather new role of product manager he took it despite not knowing what it would entail. He ended up learning a lot about not only computer science but also how the business worked and had fun doing it. But it felt didn’t feel like a mainstream route for either a computer scientist or a business person so he thought about other roles in each field. Ultimately he decided to take the offer to work at Microsoft, but he figured it would be for only two years and then he’d get into something more “normal” in the business world.

Those two years turned into twenty when it became clear that his skill set was well suited for product management and seeing how the variety of projects he got to work on was vast. But the desire to change came again when he thought about providing his children the opportunity to live abroad, as he had been afforded by his parents.//In this episode, find out from Keshav how feeling years to be long or short is sometimes related to the pace of change and sometimes to how right things feel…on Roads Taken with Leslie Jennings Rowley.

About This Episode’s Guest

Keshav Puttaswamy is a near lifer at Microsoft. He spent the first 20 years there in product management leadership roles and currently leads the collaboration and workplace experiences there, helping to deliver transformational digital experiences for Microsoft employees that serve as a blueprint for customers’ own digital transformation journeys. During his family’s two years in Sydney he led the server and enterprise-focused data center products for Atlassian before boomeranging back to Seattle. In addition to the travel, Keshav also enjoys cricket, cooking, and cocktails. (307)

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

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Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

Find more episodes at https://roadstakenshow.com

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

Time Traveler: Keshav Puttaswamy on appreciating both change and stability

Roads Taken