b'22 Partner News Summer 2022EnterpriseCelebrating Pektrons female engineers Keerthi Thallam, Junior Electronic Design Engineer (Hardware)As part of this years International Women inBackground: Having graduated with first-class honours with distinction in Engineering Day, weve taken the opportunity to lookelectronics engineering, and a Master of Technology from R.V. College of at the routes our female engineers have taken to arriveEngineering in Bangalore, Keerthi is highly at Pektron todaydeveloping electronics for globalqualified and has been the winner of many competitions at university around smart brands, primarily in the automotive and EV sector,homes and home automation technology. across the UK and America. At Pektron: Keerthi is one of Pektrons most recent recruits, having joined the company in January 2021. Shes currently delivering a fully electronic design for front lamps on a brand new systems for automotive architectures.e-vehicle being developed in the US, Having been with Pektron for over 10 years,collaborating with Bee Lighting, who are Ann says the ability to work directly withpart of the Pektron Group, and colleagues the customer, being close to the hardwarein the Electronics Design team.and working with the other departments makes her role easier and more satisfying. Biggest technical challenge/her proudest achievement: Interestingly, Biggest technical challenge: IdentifyingKeerthi explained that for her this has all a compiler bug that was causing abeen around her mindset and her attitude particular crash. It took months totowards the work she is presented with. track down and more time to convinceWhile Keerthi has learnt lots of technical people the compiler was at fault! skills studying online in her own time, her most valuable learning so far has Ann Gray, Principal SoftwareHer proudest achievement: Getting to Job1been to play with it until it fails. Design Engineer on my first body controller development.Having asked her tutor what the best way Background: Our most senior Principalwas to approach electronics, the advice Software Design Engineer, Ann Gray,was to not just try and get the answer graduated from the University ofright, but to enjoy the development Nottingham with a maths degree. Plessey,Having asked her tutorprocess and not worry if it fails! She which later became Siemens, recruitednow embraces pushing her electronics Ann in the very early days of softwarewhat the best way was todesign and development work to the developmentworking on innovativeapproach electronics, theedge, and understanding what the limits research and development projects suchare when things fail, rather than seeing as ISDN phones for the consumer market. advice was to not just try andit as a failure in itself. Great attitude!get the answer right, but to At Pektron: Ann is the font of all knowledge for the software developmentenjoy the development process of various high-performance sports carand not worry if it fails!brands. Design and testing software for body controllers, key fobs and security'