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From Career Break to Career Growth at Prodapt

When it was time to return to the corporate world after a 12-year hiatus, Mekala Mani chose Prodapt and found it to be the perfect fit. “From my first interview, I knew Prodapt was where I needed to be,” she says. “The culture here really values the diverse experiences I gained during my break, which was incredibly reassuring.”

During her time away, Mekala experimented with farming and ran bootstrapped businesses, honing crucial skills in people management, adaptability, and risk-taking—skills that now enrich her role at Prodapt, where each day brings new challenges and growth opportunities.

Mekala believes the phrase “doing is the new learning” perfectly captures her experience at Prodapt. By sharing her story, she wants to encourage others who’ve taken career breaks to return with confidence and find a place that values them and their journey, including the career break!

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Leading with Strength, Balance, and Inclusion | Prodapt

Charanya Devarajan, Senior Business Analyst, Delivery. A business analyst, mother of two, and a Proud Prodaptian. Empowering, disruptive, and inclusive – is how she describes her Prodapt experience. “I feel empowered as I am encouraged to take charge of my career, to upskill & stay ahead of trends while receiving the support to juggle personal commitments. I get to embrace the role of a disruptor, challenge the status quo and drive transformative solutions that create new possibilities. And best of all, the inclusive culture at Prodapt lets me be my authentic self.”
As someone who has overcome personal challenges, from the early loss of her father to unexpected health setbacks, Charanya brings her whole self to Prodapt, channeling her experiences to lead with strength and balance.


“Her top three mantras for women in tech?”

• Stay curious—learning helps us keep pace in this ever-evolving field.
• “Eat the Frog”—aim to make one meaningful contribution each morning.
• Find a mentor who’s got your back, for both the tough times and the celebrations!

Charanya’s story is a testament to the culture at Prodapt—where being yourself, driving change, and supporting each other are at the heart of everything we do.

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Our winning value of going deep gave us an advantage on the global stage

As one of the leading partners of global service providers in the connectedness space, we closely work with our clients on powerful technologies that accelerate connectedness. This has enabled us to gain deep insights into cutting-edge developments in the industry. Our detail-oriented and well-researched whitepapers, called Insights, are widely used by companies across the industry for first-hand information on industry challenges, path-breaking solutions, technology trends etc. Our combined expertise in connectedness and creating whitepapers gave us an advantage in winning the TM Forum’s Excellence Awards in 2020.

At the time, we were collaborating with a customer on an Insight on Autonomous Programmable Networks. We had several brainstorming sessions internally and with the customer to deep dive into every aspect of the case study. Though we had a well-researched draft, our internal review raised a lot of questions, which needed concrete answers. Hence, we dug even deeper to try and figure out the ‘secret sauce’ and the unique solutions that set us apart. And the result was nothing but a very high-quality story, ready for publication.

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“Our ability to go deep helped us beat over 100 other nominations, including many industry veterans.”

Sumit Thakur DirectorJoined Prodapt in 2018


“Why don’t we position this on the global stage and nominate it for a TMF award?”

At this point, our leader made a game-changing decision. “Why don’t we position this on the global stage,” he said, “and nominate it for a TMF award?”


As we had already gone deep in creating the Insight, we could easily satisfy the queries of the TMF analysts during the submission process. Almost every question had its answer in the Insights document. Of course, we needed some internal help in articulating the business benefits, which is a vital part of the submission. But most importantly, we also needed our customer’s approval to nominate for the award. The fact that the customer did not hesitate a bit shows the deep connections we have built with our customers.


Our ability to go deep helped us to stand out of over 100 nominations and win the TM Forum’s Excellence Award in the Autonomous Networks and the Edge category, beating many industry veterans in the process.