“For every project initiative, I create a strategy with an optimal outcome in mind—whether customer experience or operational efficiency—before moving on to successful execution.” Padma Chukka

It's in Padma’s nature to question the status quo, because she values efficiency. Don't you? It started at the beginning of her career as a software engineer. Managing the IBM Recipe by Context project's development and deployment in a 300mm chip facility, decreasing the recipe creation from 17 hours to 13 minutes.

She loves to compete with herself more than with her competitors, knowing that she doesn’t have to limit her boundaries. So far, she has been capable of anything she sets her mind to yet is hungry to push her horizons. She strolled through six continents, went to Punta Arenas, the city at the end of the world, and longingly looked at the seventh continent that she wants to set foot on one day.

She is a mentor, protégée, and not afraid to claim herself a feminist. Her passion project is diversity and inclusion. It led to creating the inaugural IBM program plus mentoring of students and female entrepreneurs. She believes that she is made up of bits of all the people that she has met, and she is currently leading the world's first Financial Services Cloud Ecosystem for IBM.