In this conversation with Meera Chari from IEEE and Gayatri from PM Power Consulting explore Meera’s journeyStarted as a computer engineer with curiosity and need to learn Meera spoke about entering the electronic commerce world as a product engineer Learnt from a mistake made during prod deployment made her acutely aware of software development need to be supported by disciplined infra managementLayers of software along with security, latency, firewalls’ importance in problem solvingUnderstanding big picture moved Meera from software engineer to an application architect and enterprise architectDisaster aware and fail tolerant application architecture based on a disaster that struck in the US East coachSharing her experience in creating company’s IT roadmap and decisions and parameters behind themCloud migration experience on critical business process that are deep rooted in enterprise applicationsEntire Economy moving towards API dynamics powered by SaaS solutionsCloud maturity is constantly changing by way of continual progression. This is leading to creation of new roles that are enabling cloud maturity and migrationKey takeaways for listeners - Listen to your customer, keep an eye on big picture and being curious about technology user or an innovator