With the On Path podcast you'll hear the behind-the-scenes of what got professionals in the technology sector to where they are today. These are the career and life stories that aren't captured on a LinkedIn or web profile. The twists and turns. The inspirations and influences. Hosted by Vijay Viswanathan.
Thomas Roccia: Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft
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Thomas Roccia on LinkedIn (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-odSu15ODAxUx_rsIHYHkB18QFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fthomas-roccia&usg=AOvVaw23suEfh9i7L5c8YyfQ3Csf&opi=89978449)
Thomas Roccia on X (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-odSu15ODAxUx_rsIHYHkB18Q6F56BAgUEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ffr0gger_%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor&usg=AOvVaw0F9cjq5h8uI7wkebJM3CM_&opi=89978449)
Thomas Roccia on Medium (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-odSu15ODAxUx_rsIHYHkB18QFnoECBoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftomrocc.medium.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw1byOKi_VrLQBm6LDNjiEkS&opi=89978449)
Visual Threat Intelligence (Book) (https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Threat-Intelligence-Illustrated-Researchers/dp/B0C7JCF8XD) by Thomas Roccia
12 Nov 2023
Jonathan Bar Or: Principal Security Researcher at Microsoft
Here are some relevant links from the conversation:
JBO on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-bar-or-89876474/)
JBO on X (https://twitter.com/yo_yo_yo_jbo?lang=en)
DEFCON talk by JBO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_5qwcPgps)
27 Mar 2022
Semir Jahic: consulting to sales engineering, side hustles
Semir Jahic is a Senior Manager, Sales Engineering & Operations at Clari. In this episode we chat about his life and career path: growing up in a small village in central Switzerland, landing a job at Accenture, discovering sales engineering, his time at Salesforce, and landing a job at the hypergrowth start up Clari through a cold message to the CEO.
30 Jan 2022
Patricia Bleiker: signal processing to network engineer to product marketer
Patricia is a Industry Solution Manager at Scandit. In this episode we chat about her career path, from highly theoretical Electrical Engineering courses at ETH Zurich, to her current role deliver tailored solutions to the transport, logistics, and travel industries.
2 Jan 2022
Jennine Heller: software engineer to entrepreneur to executive coach
Jennine Heller is an executive coach who works with senior managers on being the most effective leaders they can be. In this episode we chat about her career path, from stumbling into studying CS, to starting (then selling) a company with no business experience, to finding her calling as a coach.
2 May 2021
Andy Raskin: podcast intros, miso soup, finding his own career narrative
Andy Raskin is a consultant who works with the CEOs of tech companies on aligning their teams around a strategic narrative. In this episode we chat about the truly wide range of roles he's held, from software engineer and management consultant, to magazine writer and Japanese TV coordinator.
18 Apr 2021
Jon Rooney: Humanities major to Product Manager to Marketing Executive
Jon is Group Vice President, Industry Marketing at Oracle. From surviving the first dot-com boom to finding his sweet spot in enterprise software, Jon has had an impressive career in tech. We chat about a range of topics: what was it like being a PM in the early days of Azure? how did he capitalize on internal promotion opportunities at Splunk? how did he overcome feeling like an outsider in a highly technical space? And a whole lot more!
28 Mar 2021
Sherry Manalo: no indoor plumbing to Microsoft Software Engineering Lead
Sherryl is a Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft. Her story is one of resilience and overcoming adversity. Early life was tough: not always having enough money for food, a serious bout of malaria, frequent moves and new school systems. In this conversation Sherryl shares with us how she pushed through: going to university, creating her own company and eventually joining Microsoft, where's been over a decade.
14 Mar 2021
Nelson Haung: Sales Engineering to Marketing, Day Zero Mindset
Nelson is currently on a sabbatical focused on: 🏄🏻♂️ 🚴🏼♂️ ✍🏼 👨👩👦👦 Most recently he led a marketing team of 18 at Series C startup Zinier. Earlier he was the Director of Product Marketing, App Cloud at Salesforce. We chat about a range of topics: large tech company or startup? was an MBA worth the investment? how does Nelson hire? how to spot a great manager?
1 Mar 2021
Sunny Manivannan: Aeronautical Engineer to Entrepreneur, Marketer, Business Leader
Sunny is Vice President & GM, Global SMB at Braze. He started his career as an aeronautical engineer at GE before earning his MBA at Harvard Business School and moving into a career in marketing and business leadership. In this conversation Sunny shares with us his experience immigrating to the US at the age of 12, why he switched from engineering to business, the emotional journey of founding a company that went on to get acquired, and a whole lot more.
31 Jan 2021
Bonus Episode: Vijay Viswanathan
In this bonus episode of Season 1, my friend Dan Ferreira hosts the show and interviews me on my career and life to date. We talk about my early life moving countries often, how I seek inspiration, what got me into marketing, and some of the unexpected turns in my path.
31 Dec 2020
Drashti Patel: Microsoft, agencies, startups, US to Amsterdam
Drashti is the Head of Brand and Marketing at Siilo, an Amsterdam based secure medical messaging app. She has over a decade of B2B product marketing and brand experience from Microsoft, Impraise, ClearSlide, and Iron Creative. In this conversation we unpack her career and life journey, from interning at Tom's shoes to leading a team of marketing professionals.
17 Dec 2020
Shikha Kaiwar: Pastry chef, marketer at Slack, Dropbbox, Uber
Shikha is a Product Marketer for Growth at Slack. Previously she's been at companies like Dropbox, Uber, Thumbtack, and Sidecar. As a passionate cook, Shikha began her career in restaurant kitchens. A diagnosis of chronic anemia required a change in career. She then launched a food blog, learned the relevant skills, and made the transition to tech. From not owning a laptop to later working at the fastest growing technology companies, in this discussion we unpack her life and career journey.
10 Dec 2020
Kevin Chu: Products for the most sophisticated economic minds
Kevin is a Product Engineer at Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. We talk about his career and life path: serving as President of Columbia University's entrepreneurship student organization, co-founding a group to connect students of color with career-advancing opportunities, running 100+ hours of user interviews at a crypto startup, and how he landed his current position at Bridgewater.
8 Dec 2020
Kirupa: Senior Director at Salesforce, Creator extraordinaire
Kirupa is a Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce. Previously he was at Microsoft for over a decade as a technical PM, where he worked on the Developer Division and Windows teams. He has a Computer Science degree from MIT. On the side, Kirupa is a prolific creator. He's built one of the Internet's top free resources on web development (kirupa.com), published 8 technical books, runs a Youtube videos with well over a million views, and presented at many conferences.
2 Nov 2020
Dan Ferreira: Consulting to Google, Brazil to Boston
Dan is the Head of Measurement and Analytics, Retail at Google. He oversees an analytics practice helping eCommerce retailers with their digital advertising strategy through data. We talk about his career and life path: growing up in Brazil then attending Georgia Tech for Industrial Engineering, how he decided to do an MBA and what he got out of it, and his move from consulting at Deloitte to leading a team of analytics professionals at Google.
15 Oct 2020
Lisi Gardiner: Art History to Product, Venezuela to Israel
Lisi is a Senior Product Manager at Singular, a leading mobile analytics and attribution company serving customers like LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Twitter. We talk about her career and life path: from growing up in Venezuela and leaving to Canada for college, to finding product management and her current home in Israel.
9 Oct 2020
Dan Acristinii: "Programming for Managers" to lead DevOps
Dan is a Lead DevOps engineer at the pharma giant Roche. Previously he was a cybersecurity analyst at EY, Head of R&D at a blockchain startup, and did DevOps at Swisscom. We talk about his career and life path: from business school to a coding role, in a journey that's taken him through Moldova, Italy, the Netherlands, and now Switzerland.
30 Sept 2020
Yoav Hougui: E-commerce marketing, Dance, Japan
Yoav is an e-commerce marketer at the global agency, Saatchi and Saatchi in New York. He works on Startup Pampers of Procter & Gamble. We chat about his career and life: discovering marketing, what he's learned in e-commerce, growing up in Switzerland, studying in Canada and Japan, his passion for dance, and much more.
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