Scaling SAP Ariba, LinkedIn, and Uber from the Front Lines | Aarathi Vidyasagar

About this episode

Aarathi Vidyasagar shares her career journey from IIT to leading engineering at Uber, emphasizing the importance of empathy and technical skill.

From the elite lecture halls of the Indian Institutes of Technology ( IIT, Delhi ) to the driver's seat of an Uber delivery run, Aarathi Vidyasagar (VP of Engineering and Science at Uber ) defines what it means to lead with both technical craft and deep empathy. In this episode of the HumanizeHer Podcast, Aarathi joins former colleagues Erica Lockheimer and Elizabeth Wendorf-Bloesser to share a career journey that is as much about "grit and spunk" as it is about high-level strategy. Inside the Episode: IIT Trailblazer: Aarathi reflects on being 1 of only 11 women in a class of 500 at the Indian Institutes of Technology, navigating a male-dominated world from age 17 and learning to "blend in" before finding her true voice. 17-Year Legacy at SAP Ariba : Discover how Aarathi rose from an entry-level engineer to VP, her pivotal role in Ariba's migration to the cloud, and the moment she realized that "staying quiet" about her ambitions was leading others to make assumptions about her career path. Bridging Enterprise and Consumer at LinkedIn : Aarathi shares her "outside-in" transition to LinkedIn, where she broke unit tests in her first week to earn her "engineering cred" and…

People in this episode

Host: Erica Lockheimer

Guest: Aarathi Vidyasagar

Topics covered

• career journey
• leadership
• technical craft
• empathy
• women in tech
• cloud migration
• delivery experience

Keywords

• Aarathi Vidyasagar
• Uber
• SAP Ariba
• LinkedIn
• women in technology
• career development
• cloud migration
• delivery driver experience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Uber, SAP Ariba, LinkedIn

Places: Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi

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