Why Krishna Iyer Left Big Tech for a 170-Year-Old Railroad

Podcast: Fit Happens: Why CEOs and Leaders Succeed or Fail · Jason Baumgarten

Opublikowano: 2026-08-06

He spent two decades at the frontier of tech. Then he chose a 177-year-old railroad instead. In this episode, I talk with Krishna Iyer, head of software engineering at BNSF, a Berkshire Hathaway company. Krishna spent years building enterprise software at Microsoft, scaling consumer products at Amazon's Kindle, and working at the edge of generative AI at AWS, before deciding the biggest opportunity wasn't in another tech company. It was in applying AI to a foundational industry the world can't live without: freight rail. We talk about how he thinks about career decisions in decades, not years...