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Harish Shetty Wrote the Recipes That Made Software Talk
Before enterprise automation became a boardroom phrase, Harish Shetty was answering Rails questions, wiring stubborn systems together and insisting that a useful bot should do more than announce trouble. Workato grew from that practical instinct.
Gautham Viswanathan and the Ninety-Nine Percent of Work Still Waiting to Disappear
He helped build the middleware that connected the first wave of enterprise software. Then he returned to the same stubborn problem with a more democratic idea: let the people who know the work automate it.
Chandar Pattabhiram’s Real Product Is the Story That Makes Software Matter
He studied machines, discovered theater, and found his calling translating complex software into human stakes. After three decades in enterprise technology, his favorite operating system is still a good story.
Vijay Tella
Vijay Tella is the co-founder and CEO of Workato, a $5.7B enterprise automation platform that has become the integration backbone for over 21,000 businesses worldwide. With 30+ years spent building the middleware plumbing of Silicon Valley - from co-founding TIBCO Software to architecting Oracle Fusion Middleware to selling Qik to Skype - Tella launched Workato in 2013 with a straightforward conviction: integration should be something anyone can do, not just engineers with specialized tools. His book 'The New Automation Mindset' became a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2023, and Workato has been named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for iPaaS seven consecutive years running.