From Soldering to Software with Yeshwant Satam
Published: September 25, 2026
Duration: 53:20
My guest today is Yeshwant Satam, an ICT professional and consultant with over four decades of experience.
In this conversation, he freely shares:
His four-decade journey from soldering boards and PROM patching to firmware, software, IT services leadership, and manufacturing automation.Continual learning multiple programming languages including Pascal, Fortran, C, and Occam, then rapidly building capability through curiosity and commitment.Memorable moments including reverse engineering an IBM PC BIOS before realizing the boot floppy was still in a drawer in the US.The early days of Indian software exports: faxed requirements, shared processors, STPI floppy submissions...