Influential Woman · Software

Rajeswari Koppala

Sr. Director, Implementation Engineering, Harness

Fishers, IN 46037

Her Story

About Rajeswari

I lead professional services and customer success, where my team and I are responsible for making our customers successful as they use our product for their digital landscape changes. We support enterprises through DevOps transformations, digital transformations, AI transformations, and cloud transformations, ensuring they get the best out of their investment and successfully change their whole tech landscape inside their organization. I've been in software since 2006 and moved into leadership in 2017, giving me almost 10 years of leadership experience. I work with very large enterprises and am able to contribute to their DevOps transformations, which is where I take pride in my work. I'm passionate about understanding enterprise patterns and impacting the overall software delivery lifecycle. Looking ahead, I foresee myself continuing in customer success but leading AI transformation in the next five years.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Rajeswari

01What do you attribute your success to?

I think I'm annoyingly optimistic in anything, and that really helped me to navigate through whatever came into my way. I've also always had my family support, which is one important thing that keeps you going, even in the most difficult times when you have kids and you're going through any issues around the family. Without family support, I think it's really difficult for us to mark that success at every point, every stage of career. I'm blessed with both - I'm a champion of my own work, and I also have family support.

02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

Coming from a very different ethnic background and diversity background, I think that you shouldn't just compare yourself on everything that you see on the table. Everybody has their own set of strengths, and we should understand what we know and what we don't know very early, and play on the strengths and work on the knowledge that we don't have. I would say don't get carried away with the run of the mill. Focus on self-awareness and being on strength - that will take you a whole lot of distance.

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