Issue No.

005 Jun 2019

SCRUMble
The

Edition

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Tune-In
Hello Altimetrians!
We have reached the mid of 2019, and I am very happy
and excited at the progress we have had so far in
this year. Thanks to your dedication and commitment
towards consistent delivery and quality!   brands.
I have exciting news on PayPal – one of our longest
and strongest customer partners. We have new
opportunities in their consumer area. They are also
interested in setting up delivery capability in Uruguay.
I also recently met with the Ancestry leadership team.
They are happy with our consistency in delivery. Thanks
to the Ancestry team for keeping this relationship
strong and promising.
Our conversations with new logos - Chobani, Uniqlo,
State Street, Kraft Heinz, Twitter, Walmart Labs and First
Data, have resulted in success. I am proud to say these
are all part of our portfolio now!
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We continue to look for more avenues with other
forward-looking enterprises. In the other half of this
year, we hope to close SOWs with more such fantastic
Talent continues to be our strongest and crucial pillar
for success. I urge you to help in bringing as many
talented people into the system as you can. You know
our organization the best and you are the best judge of
who will make a great fit. Therefore, I entrust you with
this responsibility to keep growing our talent base.
Recently in the end of May, we had a grand employee
event in India, named Alchemize. A major part of this
edition of Scrumble is dedicated to cover this event
where both me and Raj Vattikuti had to opportunity
to meet and interact with our colleagues at all our
locations in India. I was personally delighted and
thoroughly enjoyed my time at all the three episodes
of the grand event.
The one key message that I have delivered at these
events and would like to re-instate is about our DNA. In
one word, we call it – ACE.
A Accountability & Ownership
C Customer Centricity
E Execution that is Flawless
When ACE becomes the fabric of this organization, we
will achieve unprecedented success and become one
of the best companies in the world.
Come ACE with me and scale new heights of success!
Best regards,
Raj Sundaresan 
Embracing our
future: Innovation
& Transformation
Innovation is the need of the hour across industries,
domains and boundaries to transform the way we live
our life and enterprises do business. Considering the
changing industry scenarios, your expectations and
customer needs, the Office of Innovation devised a
strategy to focus on strengthening the 3Cs:
Shubhabrata Mohanty
Chief Innovation Officer
Culture, Capability and Concept
to provide you the required ecosystem to think, innovate
that make it conducive for change to happen. We
and help enterprises with their digital transformation
celebrated “Alchemize” with the theme “Innovation
journey.
& Transformation” that reflects our commitment to
 
celebrate our success and build the 3Cs as the
Culture: Be it mindset or learning, creating the right foundation to be a highly innovative organization.
culture is our top priority for us so that you can continue  
to cultivate new capabilities and new concepts. Let’s build the future together.
The Transformation Platform in Digital Playground has
been launched to explore and continuously upskill
yourself to be aligned with industry trends.
There is also the tech-talk series, Think Thursdays, is a Things you must know!
platform for you to come forward and start sharing your
knowledge with the wider audience. Digital Playground Innovation Lab: It is
Coming next: Platform for industry experts to come the platform for all of us to experiment with
and interact with us and increase our knowledge. our ideas, share our ideas, build business
  solutions, get expert advices and qualify it to
Capability: The  Engineering Environment  in  Digital be filed as a patent or can be productized.
Playground provides you the platform to explore and
start building capability around us. To enhance your Altimetrik Innovation Library: The ultimate
learning outreach, we have launched various industry repository of your innovations in the form of
connect programs through DCult, where you and the patentable idea, product or platform idea or a
wider tech community can participate to exchange digital asset that can be used across multiple
ideas, share learnings, collaborate and enhance our customer needs.
capability as a thought leader.
  Think Thursday: Platform for you to share
Concept: To build new concepts and differentiate your knowledge with the wider audience.
ourselves as one of the top innovative companies in the
world, we are committed to provide you the ecosystem DCult: Community outreach platform to
for you to think, collaborate and innovate.  Digital exchange ideas, share learnings, and
Playground Innovation Lab, the platform for all of us to collaborate with the wider tech community.
innovate, was launched in the recent Alchemize event.
Now, you can share ideas, build business solutions,
get expert advices and publish your idea to be part
of  Altimetrik Innovation Library, a repository of your
innovations in the form of patentable idea, product or
platform or a reusable digital asset. 
 
Every one of us needs to do our best, lead and
help drive this change. Many companies aspire to
change the world, but very few have all elements

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Altimetrik India had its biggest ever Ideathon held through April and May 2019.
170 employees participated. 105+ ideas submitted.
34 ideas moved to next level.
14 best ideas showcased at the gala event – Alchemize!

This format has been a major success in India. It will be expanded globally to reach everyone in the next phase.

Top Innovators and their Ideas from Ideathon 2019

M. Chandra Sekhar Sarma Shree Sule

Idea: Developer Enablement Framework (DEF)
DEF is a web based solution to address the industry
wide problem of aggregating & automating the
access and tools required for  Developers, Testers
and Project Managers. It accelerates the process of
project onboarding by reducing human dependency. It
provides complete visibility on project related access,
environments, tech stack & tools for  every person
involved in a project.
Benefits include:
• Approvals on the go, without impacting the eco
system
• Create a component Pool to setup the entire project
on a single click  starting from when he/she are a potential customer
• Provide everything in-line with security and audit
controls
• Increase in productivity of the employee as on
boarding happens in  few hours instead of weeks
Billing improvement
• Reduce on boarding challenges considerably
Idea: Seamless Banking Experience
McKinsey describes the biggest risks for banks as “the
four horsemen of the e-pocalypse -Amazon, Google,
Square, or  PayPal.    Why is that?  The experience
provided for customers is personalized, much more real
time, future looking, based on their behaviors, and has
a predictive component to it.  In today’s digital world,
what is the customer looking for while purchasing? 
Reviews of the offerings, offers, and to carry out the
transaction from wherever he/ she wants. So why not
bring this thought for a banking clients journey?
My idea covers the entire customer journey
until the institution completes the on-boarding. Making
the complete journey hassle free to the customer while
capturing data during the journey that gives feedback
to the institution helping to make its process even
better and enrich the customer experience.

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Shubhangi Nandkumar Pagar and Darshil Shah
Idea: DevOps Library for Micro-services Architecture
Monolithic development architecture is rapidly being
replaced by micro service architecture. With this
shortened development life-cycle, DevOps becomes
the key to success.  Creating CI/CD pipelines from
scratch involves lot of time.  available in the market & there are lot of limitations with
We are coming up with a library which consists
of CI-CD stages involving compilation till cloud
deployment.  The library consists of playbooks which
can be consumed across micro services, as per choice
and requirement.  This will provide plugin points as
per your Cloud Platform requirement. With minimal
knowledge sharing and documents this library can be
consumed, and micro service will be up and running
within few weeks.
With the help of  Playground,  it has become easy to
develop this library, and with Innovation lab and right
coach we are achieving this aim. 
Anandakumar and Muralitharan
Krishnamoorthy
Idea: Driving efficiency in Managed Services
Managed services usually have a lot of repetitive work
of writing CRUD services. We can reduce the time spent
on repetitive tasks by design time scaffolding. We have
used the code generation techniques to significantly
reduce development effort by 30%. Our idea is a one
stop solution for customizing code generation for any
programming language.
Dinesh Kumar
Idea: ShadowDom – Test
Automation
This is a solution to automate Polymer JS (ShadowDom)
based web-application using JavaScript, Selenium
Framework. Shadow DOM is a technique to help web
developers to better encapsulate their code. It is a
useful solution for Web developers, but it becomes a
challenge for automation testing because elements
inside a shadow root technically do not exist in the
main document DOM.
Currently few PolymerJS Web based applications are
available frameworks. Not all the browsers support
Shadow DOM concept.
My idea is to build unified framework solution to
overcome automation challenges on Shadow DOM
based UI and other UI stacks. Build runner clients
to access native Selectors API within the browser to
stabilize the UI object identification and transitions to
eliminate the inconsistency that blocks automation.
Vikrant Alekar
Idea - PayByFace
Introducing an alternative mode of payment in digital
payment industry. With this idea, the receiver doesn’t
have to pull out a phone and show a QR code. Instead,
they can receive a payment or make one happen just
by using their face instead of sharing his QR code or
mobile number.
PayByFace will also scan multiple receiver faces in one
frame and can process payment to all receivers in one
shot. PayByFace takes a leap over traditional modes
(PayByQr / PayByMobileNumber) of digital payments.
PayByFace is easy to use, can process multiple
payments at a time and is downright convenient!
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 Rangarajan S
Idea – Intelligent IT
Operations
Application development has evolved over the past few
decades, but monitoring and operations management has
not evolved at the same pace. An Average IT Operations
Team Monitors 100’s of Dash Boards to find anomalies in
system behavior. As computing environments grow more
complex, enterprises face new challenges that consume
significant time and capital expense, impeding growth and
stifling their success
The Idea is the create a Real Time IT Operating System that
detects service failures at the earliest. A minimum viable
plug and play platform was conceived and developed to
prove the accuracy of the predictive engine. Platform em-
beds a highly accurate prediction engine that reduces false
positives in alerts and provides the earliest detection of
service failures. Real World Data sets about Latency, Error
rates, and Daily Close prices of various Stocks were fed into
the systems and was tuned to a predictive accuracy of 90%
for the 90% of the dataset. The platform would be integrat-
ed with trusted tools to perform automated cause Analysis,
manage incident tickets, and create self-healing workflows.
As AI Tech. matures and demonstrates significant business
value, enterprises would adopt advanced Intelligence to
uncover insights and take action that lead to proactive inci-
dent resolution and reduced IT operation expenses.
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Rakesh Sivanantham
Idea – Smart Traffic
Management
Smart Traffic Management is a system that analyzes the
road traffic 24/7 with the help of surveillance cameras
installed on the roads. Congestion on the roads hap-
pens, mainly because of three factors: rule violations,
inefficient use of traffic signals, and bad city planning.
To help in these areas, system will detect the traffic vio-
lations and issue challans to the drivers. Traffic signals
will be used in an efficient way by analyzing the traffic
in each lane and balancing the signal open time.
Finding a way for emergency vehicles in Indian traf-
fic is a nightmare. Our system will help in solving this
problem by detecting the incoming emergency vehicle
using our machine learning algorithms and open the
signal for the specific lane. More than that, the data that
is captured by this system would be studied to analyze
the number of vehicles using the roads and peak traffic
hours for better city planning. We could also capture
the passengers travelling in footboard of buses and
study the data in a long run, to find the peak hours and
routes that need higher frequency of buses.
Doing it for India, the world’s largest democracy, would
enforce traffic rules to drivers in a long run and help the
government manage road traffic.
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Existing partnerships

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New partnerships-2019

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Technnoisseur
Technological change or revolution? – Capitalizing on the
disruption
For this special edition, let’s take an overall look
at the spectrum of logos that we have been
working with, have recently started to work
with, and the ones we are in conversations.
I was so excited when I bought my first desktop
PC in 2005 with a RAM of 1GB, which I thought
was envious, as it was the highest available
configuration in my town then. Fast-forward to
today, I can buy a smartphone, 7 or 8 times
more powerful than my first computer, with
better processing and storage capabilities.
It’s astonishing to witness the steady increase
in computing power and reduced storage
costs, along with widespread adoption of
digital devices and technologies. Further,
availability of data, coupled with its collection
and aggregation methods, have presented
opportunities to enrich our lives with better
solutions to various problems. Especially,
last decade has seen a lot of focus on an
array of technologies such as, AI, Big Data
and Analytics, IoT, cloud computing, not to
mention Blockchain, to rethink the way we
solve several problems.  technology.”
Technology as enabler
Most, if not all, of the human problems are
timeless. Our necessities and desires are
hardly different from our ancestors. Take
something as simple as a transaction record,
such as “Rajesh borrowed Rs. 1000 from
Megha on 27 July 2018”. Thousands of years
ago clay tablets were used to record such
transactions. A few hundred years ago, paper
was used, followed by digital files, databases
and recently Blockchain. As you can see, the
problem of maintaining transaction records
remains the same for thousands of years,
but the solutions get better as years pass
by, due to our need for efficiency. So is the
case for food, travel, communication or any
other human need. This desire to find ways
to effectively solve problems becomes the
driver for innovation. Today, technology has
become the key enabler for this endeavor.
Peter Theil, co-founder of PayPal, in his book
Zero to One says “When we think about
the future, we hope for a future of progress.
That progress can take one of two forms.
Horizontal progress means copying things
that work – going from 1 to n. Vertical progress
means doing new things – going from 0 to 1.
The single word for vertical, 0 to 1 progress is
 
Opportunity in front of us
As software engineers, we have been
instrumental in driving this technological
progress, either directly or indirectly. We have
automated most repetitive tasks and have
recently become more interested in teaching
machines, rather than our children, hoping
that someday machines will take over that
task too for us! Due to this, our machines are
becoming intelligent and data hungry. With
these intelligent machines enabling high-level
cognitive processes like thinking, learning,
problem solving and decision making, we
have already started leveraging them in virtual
assistant software programs, cybersecurity,
autonomous vehicles, behavioral algorithms,
internet search algorithms etc.
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In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, author and
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman claims,
“The number of studies reporting comparisons
of clinical and statistical predictions has
increased  to roughly two hundred, but the
score in the contest between algorithms
and humans has not changed. About 60%
of the studies have shown significantly
better accuracy for the algorithms. The other
comparisons scored a draw in accuracy, but
a tie is tantamount to a win for the statistical
rules, which are normally much less expensive
to use than expert judgement. No exception
has been convincingly documented”. It seems
that our algorithms have started outperforming
human experts in decision making, which
makes us think that the idea of superhuman
is not unrealizable. Someday the big sisters
of Sophia, the first humanoid robot to have
a nationality, could be more intelligent than
their creators.  to relevant real use cases. The last step is
While we are all set to realize the benefits
of technologies such as AI, the ethical
and privacy concerns surrounding them is
plausible. Scholars like Nick Bostrom and
Yuval Noah Harari have warned about the
far-reaching unpredictable consequences
of these technological developments. That
said, technological transformation did not
come without negative implications in the
past. Nevertheless, the benefits they bring to
humanity is undeniable and it’s impossible to
turn our backs to these developments. So, it
is important that we critically understand the
repercussions and be responsible in using
these technologies constructively for the
betterment of our community. 
learning speed. A new technology introduced
today could become obsolete in a matter
of two to three years. It has become really
hard for us to specialize in one technology,
which will lead to lack of expertise in the
coming days. The only way to compensate
that is by collaborating with interest groups
through various online and offline discussion
forums, by sharing problems and solutions,
thereby complementing each other and grow
together in this journey. This world has never
been so connected. We can no longer grow
independently. Only way to grow is to grow
together.
At work, we can get started by undertaking
exploratory proof-of-concept projects in new
technologies, create vibrant ecosystems
of tech enthusiasts, collaborate constantly,
and most importantly, apply the learnings
the most important and often forgotten one,
which is going to be the crucial differentiator.
If every team at Altimetrik pursue at least one
such endeavour in the upcoming financial
year, the cumulative benefit in terms of
efficiency as well as capability building, would
be significant for us, as an organisation and in
turn for our clients.

What can we do at Altimetrik? 

Alright, technology is poised to disrupt the

world and opportunity is in front of us. So, what
next? The mantra is simple yet difficult. It’s the
willingness to constantly learn, collaborate
and apply. This willingness to learn new
technologies, collaboration with internal and
external interest groups, followed by relevant
application of these learnings at work, will be Karthikeyan Alagarswamy
the key determinant for consistent success. Senior Staff Software Engineer, Chennai.
Technological change has outpaced our

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Marketing Insider
The first half of 2019 has been a busy time for Marketing
and we have refocused our efforts on a few core areas
to support our business growth strategy.

Jeffrey Fleischman
Chief Marketing Officer

Social Media Stats

24,000+ followers

17,000+ followers

https://www.altimetrik.com/
2485 followers
Website: In late April, we relaunched our website
reducing the amount of content and creating a simple
more appealing design. We will continue to add content
to our site that will include a greater number of client (new): 119 followers
case studies and employee testimonials.

Social Media: We have standardized our social media

sites with a common look and feel and increased the
range of content to include third party perspectives.
We launched on Instagram and created a company
profile on Medium an online publishing platform
with 60MM+ active daily users. Finally, we created
recurring content through #foodforthought Fridays
and #TransformativeTuesdays to increase audience
engagement and reach.

Public Relations: Our public relations efforts have

resulted in numerous media mentions for the company
and subject matter experts in topics ranging from IT
talent and culture to focused technology topics. The
coverage that you will see in the following section have
been garnered in just over a month. The goal of these
efforts is to increase the company’s public profile to
attract talent and increase awareness of our business Like, share and follow us
model among prospective clients. on all social media and let
more people know more
We’re excited by these initiatives and look forward to about Altimetrik!
sharing additional accomplishments in the future.

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In the News!

Raj Vattikuti, our CEO was interviewed by Republic

Media Online on healthcare and IOT

Read the story here

Jeff Fleischman, our CMO was quoted in a story on

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2019

Read the story here

Farid Roshan, Head of DevOps and Cloud Engineering

was quoted by The Enterprisers Project

Read the story here

Ignacio Segovia, Chief Architect was quoted by The

Business Insider on Apple WWDC

Read the story here

Ranga Kanapathy, Head of Global Delivery and

Engineering, will be joining a prestigious group of
speakers at Entrepreneur India 2019 grand event!
More update on this in the next edition.

Read the story here

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Latest Reads on The
Fundamental Futurist
Addressing the Key Challenges Digital Transformation is here
in Digital Transformation for good
Get your ship ready to ride the tide

Anil Somani
Chief Transformation Officer (West) Jeff Fleischman
Chief Marketing Officer, Altimetrik
Digital Data Transformation in any organization is an
ongoing journey. It is a process of evolution that needs
Digital transformation is changing how companies
to be addressed from multiple angles to reduce risk of
operate from the ground up – every part of the
failure and minimize resistance to change.
organization is impacted. Whether it is building
Most organizations today are grappling with a similar
new products or services, creating new customer
set of challenges – relevant skill shortage, undefined
experiences, or using data to create new marketing
and ambiguous processes, and highly complex and
strategies technology is the enabler in how they are
inflexible legacy IT infrastructures. Although there’s a
delivered. Technology has been a core component of
plethora of tools, technologies and methods available
business for decades and digital transformation is the
in the market, there is a need for organizations to
latest chapter in its evolution. Although companies may
identify business and technology partners who can
experience some headwinds, digital transformation will
highly contextualize and configure the end-to-end
have a lasting benefit on a company’s competitiveness
transformation process to help the organization get
and bottom-line results.
closer to the goals with speed and agility.

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HR Square

US Electronic Timesheet Process:  In an effort to continue

to improve our current timesheet  process,  we have
Clear Company: Talent Acquisition and New
successfully  implemented online  Time sheets,  via
Hire Onboarding portals have been successfully
Employee Self Service portal in ADP,  for all our
implemented in Clear Company.  We are super
employees working Ford and SVB client sites.  Our
excited to share that the last phase of the
goal is to have the rest of the US workforce using
Performance Management portal will be implemented
online timesheets by end of July 2019.
in phases over the next few months. The performance
management tool includes employee self-evaluation, Employee Handbook: A NEW Employee Handbook
goal setting, manager evaluation / feedback and (US) will be published to all employees by end of July
360-degree evaluation.   2019.  

Uruguay more efficiency. We begin by informing the identified

Future Leader about the benefit of this coaching
Future Leaders Coaching Program: In the HR
program. It entails approximately six sessions, where
department, we identify future leaders and we are
we assess the objective that each one has for the
working with them to improve their skills. We created
new position. We will evaluate what they expect of
a workshop to improve the skills for the future leaders
themselves as leaders and how to proceed when they
called “Coaching for Leadership”.
have the responsibility to supervise a team and have a
We believe that leadership exists in a person project in charge. 
when he or she is able to develop and improve the
Once the objective has been worked on, different
performance and competencies of his/her team. Skills
tools of coaching are identified and the lessons
like communication skills, leadership skills, motivation,
begin. Feedback is given on each lesson and process
delegating, feedback, responsibilities, manage difficult
revision date is set. A document details the strong
workers, learn how to have crucial conversations. 
points for each individual’s future role and what needs
The process is one-to-one designed to bring about to continue development.

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This ongoing training helps employees stay engaged throughout the learning process. Through this Coaching
process, we have the opportunity to remind our future leaders of the importance of their role within the organization
so that they can generate commitment and desire to continue improving the other team members. 

We know that when leaders improve their performance, benefits spread throughout the organization. 

This process is made by me, Andrea Muñoz HR Manager and I am also Coach certified!

India  
Laurels:
Think Speak Listen (TSL):
Praise and recognition are essential for an outstanding
Launched our own eloquence club for employees
workplace. We value and respect our employees for
to practice public speaking, improve communication
their contribution and we believe that recognizing
and build leadership skills. TSL has completed 10
actions, behaviours, approaches, and accomplishments
episodes with people we have hired from campuses.
will inspire and motivate employees to keep doing the
The methodology and activities conducted at TSL has
good work. 
employees helped break communication barriers.
 
To make recognition easy and robust, we are introducing
Here’s what participants had to say:
“Laurels” an online reward and recognition platform.
 “I at the foremost would like to say great job on today’s
The platform is an innovative cloud-based technology
session and I take the liberty of saying this on behalf
that powers the programs and makes it easy to align,
of all my fellow interns that by far this was the most
reward, measure and celebrate employees success
fun and knowledgeable TSL session that we’ve had,
stories from anywhere, anytime and any device.
where we improved our skills as well as enjoyed a ton
 
at the same time.”  - Aayush Nandkeolyar 
Manager Bootcamp:
“Thank you for the great work put by TSL club. It was
The purpose of leaders is to engage others in
my first Table Topic Talk and I’ve got to learn a lot here.
committing their full energy to the creation of value
I thank the club for helping me to learn ‘Quick Thinking
and success. Manager Boot Camp is designed to
Skills’. At the end of the day I realized, to think on my
help people managers at Altimetrik in “ Mastering
feet is an essential skill to cultivate.” -  Sindhuja N 
the Role as Leaders”. The program addresses both
competency and character for driving results with a
proven framework of blended learning

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We the People
Lunch with HR
US based employees working with PayPal, Silicon Valley Bank and Ancestry enjoyed a scrumptious engagement
lunch session with the HR team. About 30 employees joined for lunch and were able to get updates on all
the upcoming initiatives in the company and get their questions answered. Post lunch, they have one-on-one
sessions with Sandy Patel – Head HR, Altimetrik US.

Employee engagement at Ford

Over 60 employees working with Ford came to Dave & Busters to enjoy a little down time while playing games
and to network with their fellow employees from both Ford and leaders from corporate. Employees spoke on their
current projects, their strengths that they are developing while at Ford and many inquired about how they can get
involved with Altimetrik further via our new “Altimetrik Collider” in downtown Detroit. We hope to continue these
employee engagement events throughout the end of 2019.

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Sponsoring the Michigan Council of Women in Technology
We are now Emerald Partners with the esteemed Michigan Council of Women in Technology. At a recent event,
we were the book sponsors and got to interact with several women IT leaders in the space.

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People Manager Awards – India
Best People Manager – Chennai
Sandeep Kumar Jha
PayPal
What’s your mantra for team management?
I give confidence to the folks I work with to express
themselves best by creating a positive ambience. I like
to involve subordinates and peers in decision making
process by listening to their ideas and innovations at
work. I also believe in absolute transparency in the
rewards and recognition. My emphasis is on success
of the team over individual interests.

Best People Manager – Bangalore

Asis Kumar Patra

Funding Circle

What makes you a great manager of people?

I have managed multiple teams sizing (5-120 people) in my career till now, however my model of people practice
is always flat. I always consider them as the valuable asset not just for my work but also for my own life, as I spend
most time of my day with them than my own family. A Great Manager is always a product of a Great Team.

I believe in building a “Happy Team” than a “Skilled Team”. A happy mind has all the potential to learn new skills
and perform optimally against the odds. Rule of thumb is - Building a culture of helping & caring for each other in
the team, just like we do in our Families.

People’s Choice Manager Award – Pune

| Sachin Kothalkar
Citibank

What’s your leadership advice?

Frequent connect with employee apart from one-on-ones. Listen to their pain areas and put efforts to address
them. Be transparent.  Hear out their personnel as well as professional issues and guide them as and when
required.

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Alchemize
The Tri-City Grand Gala in India
Leadership Talks

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 Employee Performances
Bangalore

Chennai

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 Employee Performances
Pune

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 Awards
Bangalore

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 Chennai
Awards

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 Pune
Awards

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The PoY winners
SCA-V of Ford Account

Prabhu Ramaswamy

Seenivasan Ramamoorthy

Karthik Sethuraman

Jeffrey Jermanus Antony

Aruna Raju

Ankur Das

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The PoY winners
SCUBA of SVB Account

Dinesh Kumar K Preeta Kuruvilla

Jos George Thekethala Indrapal Singh Prajapati

Pushparagavan Sivaji Dibyendu Saha

Abhishek Ojha Ishwarya Mohanraj

Kadhiravan Karunanidhi Pallavi S

Himanshu Varshney Vasuthevan Palani

Elona Parija Vishwakumar Patil

Eragam Reddi PradeepKumar Reddy Vinod Kumbar

Arun Bhaskaran

Manibalan Rajaram

Sathishkumar Velusamy

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Celebrity performances
Bangalore

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 Celebrity performances

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Chennai
 Celebrity performances
Pune

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Fun & Frolic
Bangalore

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 Chennai
Fun & Frolic

Pune

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Fun

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Life and more…
Driving is Liberating!
- A personal blog by Diti Mansata, SFDC
began to tremble and sweat droplets started to
accumulate over my forehead. The radio was on,
but I could hardly hear anything. The only thing
I could see and hear was traffic and honking all
over! And, suddenly when my car stopped in
between a slow-moving traffic (because I did not
switch to a lower gear), I felt as if I had committed
a crime. 

I have made so many mistakes, when I think about

it today, I laugh endlessly. Quoting a few - like
getting stuck at a ramp because the hand brakes
Hello and welcome to my first blog on my love for
were not released, not knowing how to switch off
driving ... Please take a seat and buckle up..!! 
the wipers after the rain has stopped (I drove 8
There is a saying that there is an age of learning kms with my wipers on.. when the rain had already
anything, but I say, there should be Passion, stopped and the sun had come out).
Obsession, Inspiration and Courage to learn
Today when I look back to those days when I was
anything new in your life. Just like others, driving
a naive driver, I am amused. My love and passion
needs Practice and Patience. However, driving
for driving has increased over the years… Driving
in Bangalore is a big challenge because there’s
to me is Empowering, Thrilling and Fun filled. It
not only heavy traffic but other challenges too,
reminds me of my youthful days and feel the rush
like once you past the spitting of cab drivers,
of adrenaline in my blood. It’s like falling in love
you face the bikers that don’t give a damn about
once again..!! 
pedestrians, people bumping in to you and not
caring, old ladies cutting you off and the God But just when you think you have learned it all,
made Autowalas who appear from nowhere and you will make a turn down a road you’ve never
could cut you off from anywhere..!!  been there before and find it has something
entirely new to teach you. Don’t get discouraged.
This struggle started 5 years back. 
Embrace every turn and every lesson. For there
20 struggling classes!! That’s all I had before my is always something incredible just over the next
first lone drive into the crazy world of Bangalore road or right behind the next building. There are
traffic. I guess gears were unheard of in Venus, as always new tricks and treats. You simply must be
the thought of changing from 1st to 3rd and then patient and keep driving..!! 
back to 2nd and then again to 4th and then finally
When you drive home today, you’ve got a big
to 5th gear, used to drive me bewildered. I still
windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve
remember my first day with the driving instructor,
got a little bitty rear view mirror. And the reason
he was so patient with me, as I was struggling to
the windshield is so large and the rear view mirror
avoid the stare of people, trying to stay away from
is so small is because what’s happened in your
my red color “L” marked car. 
past is not nearly as important as what is in your
When an instructor is sitting beside you, believe future. - Joel Osteen
me you can conquer any traffic, any situation, any
road or any crooked street. However, when you
are alone, it is totally different. I remember the first
time when I alone took my car to office. My hands

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Health & Wellness
– Our greatest priority!
In all the madness and rush of our life today, we often forget the most important component for achieving any kind
of success - our own health which means both the mind and the body, which are actually interconnected.

Here we want to share the story of our employee Pugal Panneerselvam, Head of Product & Platforms Capability.
His commitment and dedication to improving his quality of life is a true inspiration for everyone. We must all take
a page from his book of health and implement in our life!
Here’s how the transformation looks like:

Here’s what it means:

Pugal is a strong believer in the 1% improvement club – which basically means making bite-sized improvements
to our daily lives, making those small changes and converting them into a whole list of great habits!
Today, Pugal finds himself at the highest energy levels, all day, every day. He lost more than 28 kilos in three
months and has maintained that for over a year. He is now healthier, happier and above all, mostly feels stress-
free.

Three main things that he prescribes:

1. Clean Eating – Say no to all kinds of sugar, fast-foods, junk food and processed food
2. Time-restricted eating – Eat only for a few hours in a day and then put a hard stop (recommended is 10
hours of eating and 14 hours of fasting)
3. Sitting Kills. Moving Heals – Keep your body moving throughout the day. Any form of exercise will help
as long as the body is in motion!
For more motivation, here are a few books he recommends:
1. Circadian Code by Dr. Sachin Panda
2. Sitting Kills...Moving Heals by Joan Vernikos
3. Atomic Habits by James Clear

Pugal conducts health related sessions frequently. He has helped several colleagues across the company to get
on a path of health transformation. We will cover them in the future editions and know more about their secrets.
There is a boatload of knowledge that Pugal loves to share with everyone who is interested.

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Obituary
We fondly remember our dear colleague,
friend, husband, father, and a fantastic team
player!

Datta Chetan
1986 – 2019

Rest in peace

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Editorial Note
Dear colleagues,

Thanks for being with us on another fantastic ride with Scrumble!

We had gone silent for a while, 4 months to be precise. But that’s not because of any dearth of exciting stories in
Altimetrik! It just needed a little time to get this fabulous edition out!!

We want to share with you a few insights about Scrumble.

It takes around 145 earth-hours to make one such edition come out – including search for stories, writing content,
designing and then production. But we love every hour of doing this, because we get to tell these beautiful,
inspiring stories of our employees.

So, please give a lot of love to Scrumble and help us by keeping those stories coming in!

Get in touch with anyone in the editorial team to submit your story. We will be back with another fantastic edition
soon!

Cheers!

The Editorial Team

Twastree Chakravarty Basan

Editor Creative Editor

Key Contributors:
US India

Sudha Sandy Patel Sheetal Barua Shubhabrata Nandini

Naranaswamy, Mohanty Kantharaj

Uruguay

Andrea Munoz
Confidential. For internal use only
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