Success Secrets Podcast

Mr. Ramana Polavarapu is a Machine Learning scientist at PayPal, and he secured a PhD in Economics from The University of California, Davis. Even though he has been visually impaired since birth, he overcame many an obstacle and professionally succeeded by obtaining positions as a vice president and a tech fellow at Goldman Sachs, research scientist at Amazon, an ML engineer at Facebook.

He never let the disability curb his enthusiasm and his zeal in life. He believes that all of us encounter either explicit constraints or hidden ones but we should not be discouraged in the face of adversity. Perhaps, the path that we envision for ourselves may have to be altered but our spirit should remain undaunted.

Ranjani Saigal serves as the CEO of the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA, which runs over 100,000 schools in rural and tribal areas in India and Nepal, providing education to nearly three million children. Each school is used as a nucleus to bring about a holistic transformation of the village. 

Ekal Vidyalaya is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring literacy, healthcare, and economic prosperity to remote villages in India