Vidya has 23+ years of experience in Software Research and Development in the industry.

She is Lead Cloud2Edge Architect at Intel working on Cloud and Kubernetes native research. She has Master's degree in Science from BITS Pilani and has worked for Tier#1 companies including IBM and NOKIA/Bell. Her vast experience covers wide range of software development and research including Cloud computing, Operating Systems, and Artificial Intelligence encompassing various areas including Robotics, Computer Vision and Augmented Reality.

She holds 40+ patents in these areas and is author of a book "Under the hood of algorithms".  In these work places she has conducted more than 1000+ interviews and have seen various levels of candidates. Here she aims to bring in those experiences, lessons, ideas and learnings for students to adopt and crack challenges with ease and confidence.