Product · Engineering · Quality
I spent eighteen years inside Oracle's databases — leading testing and release validation for Oracle Database (10g through 23ai) and Fusion Applications as a Senior Member of Technical Staff. Now I'm building INUK and doing an Executive MBA in Product Leadership with the Institute of Product Leadership and CMRIT, Bangalore, making the move from deep quality engineering into product. I write about that transition, the craft of building reliable software, and a working life that still has room for the garden, the kitchen, and the two boys I'm raising. On the side, my husband and I are building Kunja Village Homestay in the Almora hills.
For my EMBA, a classmate and I took the Value Proposition Design canvas to an AI × SaaS founders' meetup and interviewed the room. The gap we found — between inspiration and implementation — is the real product.
A talk I gave on how misinformation travels — and what anyone building trustworthy products can learn from how lies spread faster than the truth.
After eighteen years making sure other people's products didn't break, I'm learning how to decide what to build in the first place. This is why.
Upgrades, migrations, RAC, Data Guard, and the occasional ORA-0600 at 2am. What a career deep in Oracle's internals teaches you about complex systems.
Functional, regression, performance — the whole gauntlet. And the mindset of breaking things on purpose so customers never have to.
No schedule, no spam — just new essays when they’re ready. The slow web, delivered slowly.