Sakti Prasad Bagchi
“Where technology meets the depth of human insight.”
A technologist, storyteller, and student of human nature. I translate the complexity of engineering into the language of leadership, and the wisdom of experience into words worth reading.
Four Roles, One Mission
As Senior Development Manager at Altera Digital Health, I lead cross-geographic engineering teams across India and the US, spanning multiple product lines in Healthcare IT — from Revenue Cycle Management to Electronic Health Records. My craft is building the cultures and connections that sustain great teams across time zones, products, and organizational complexity.
As Past President of the IIMB Orators Toastmasters Club, public speaking is both passion and platform. Whether delivering technical keynotes, exploring the philosophy of leadership, or guest-lecturing at healthcare institutions — I bring authenticity, insight, and a storyteller’s instinct to every stage. Complexity deserves clarity. Ideas deserve an audience.
My 2018 book “How to Manage Your Manager” has guided professionals through the unwritten rules of career navigation. Today, I write extensively on LinkedIn and Medium — from RAG architectures and MCP protocols to cross-cultural team dynamics. My second book is in progress: a fiction with a hidden heart of career wisdom, told through four college friends finding their way in the world.
For over a decade, I have coached professionals navigating career transitions, leadership challenges, and personal reinvention. My approach is simple: listen deeply, ask harder questions, and help people discover their own answers. I don’t give people direction — I help them find the clarity they already carry but haven’t yet named.
A Career Built on Curiosity
Leading cross-geographic engineering teams across India and the US, delivering Healthcare IT products across multiple product lines — Patient Access, Patient Accounting, and Advanced Revenue Cycle — using SAFe Agile methodology as Release Train Engineer.
Served as President of one of India’s most prestigious Toastmasters clubs, cultivating the craft of communication and leadership development among IIM Bangalore alumni.
A practical guide to navigating the unwritten rules of the workplace — still helping professionals read their organizational environment with greater clarity and confidence.
A program that fused 25 years of technical depth with the strategic vocabulary of business leadership — shaping how I think about technology in the context of organizations and people.
A journey that began with code and grew into architecture, then into leadership, and ultimately into a philosophy: that the best technology is built by humans who understand other humans.
The best leaders don’t just understand their domain — they understand the people living inside it.
A Witness to Life in Motion
“The greatest university we are enrolled to is Life. I am simply trying to learn something from this institution — and share the notes.”
I began writing to express myself. Somewhere along the way I discovered that the most personal stories are also the most universal ones. A barefoot walk on a Kerala beach became a meditation on healing. A parking dispute became a window into the nature of human conflict. A conversation with my own inner voice became a map back to mental peace.
That is what this blog is — not a platform, not a brand. It is a journal kept in public. Written for anyone who has ever felt the gap between the life they are living and the life they sense is possible.
My writing draws from two rivers that run through my life in parallel — the ancient and the contemporary. I find myself reaching for the Purusharthas and Ashrama Dharma when modern language falls short. I hear Ghalib in a morning drive through Kerala backwaters. I see Ganesha not as mythology but as a blueprint for leadership that still holds.
The other river is honest self-examination. I have written about dismissing a man for his British accent — only to discover he was managing a stammer. I have written about choosing Ayurveda over surgery for my wife, about 40-hour fasts, about what it feels like when writing shifts from expression to performance, and how hollow that feels.
I do not write to impress. I write to stay honest.
Available for Keynotes, Workshops & Conversations
Whether you’re looking for a keynote speaker on technology leadership, an advisory voice on organizational transformation, or a coach who will ask the questions you’ve been avoiding — let’s talk.