Podcast Ruined by a Software Engineer · Perry Tiu

Overcoming Career Plateaus with Uma Subramanian | Ep. 57

June 6, 2025·1 hr 15 min·5 clips

Host Perry interviews Uma Subramanian, founder of Limitless Leaders, about her journey from New Delhi to Microsoft — where she spent 20 years pioneering developer relations work as a programmer writer, team manager, showcase app builder, and internal AI platform evangelist — to launching a leadership coaching firm helping tech professionals break through career plateaus. The conversation spans early computing memories, the NIIT diploma program, the role of family influence and immigrant ambition, the evolution of DevRel, and the four pillars of Uma's coaching model, including strategic impact and communicating with clarity.

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A Microsoft career story about reinvention, plateau, and the turn toward developer-community work.

This episode follows a career at a plateau and the push to reinvent, with Uma Subramanian's Microsoft path giving it shape: programming, SharePoint developer writing, manager work, full-time showcase app building, and later work tied to the developer community.

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You hear Uma Subramanian trace a Microsoft career into coaching work for people stuck at a career plateau.

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