Bits, Banking & Business Analytics with Muthusamy Vetrivel

In this episode of Software People Stories, Gayatri speaks with Muthusamy Vetrivel, Manager – Business Analytics at Saudi National Bank (formerly Saudi French Bank), about a career that spans over four decades of technological disruption.

Vetrivel’s journey is anything but conventional.

He began in the granite export business — negotiating documents and standing nervously at bank counters. That experience sparked curiosity: “What happens behind the counter?” That curiosity led him into banking.

In the mid-1980s, when computers first entered Indian banks, he was among a select group trained in programming through Aptech — at a time when...