Roopa Modem

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ROOPA MODEM

Good decisions come from good thinking. Good thinking comes from data. And data, in the wrong hands, is just noise. That belief has shaped everything I do — and it did not come from a classroom. My career began in dentistry. Not because I planned to stay, but because it taught me something no textbook could — that systems either protect people or fail them, and the difference almost always comes down to how organisations manage their people and decisions. That insight followed me from a clinic in Visakhapatnam to a public hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, where I worked with a multinational medical team and watched how culture shapes care. Then to a mobile hospital in Puttaparthi. Then into hospital quality management — two years building systems, writing SOPs, and preparing organisations for NABH audits. Somewhere in all of that, I realised the real question was never clinical. It was organisational. Why do some teams perform and others collapse? Why do careers stall even when talent does not? I went back to study those questions seriously. A PhD in HR. Eight published papers. 118 citations. Research on organisational politics, knowledge management, career growth, and leadership — not as abstract theory, but as explanations for things I had watched happen in real organisations. Then I started teaching — three years of MBA and PGDM students, helping them think analytically and use data as a decision-making tool. Power BI. Tableau. SPSS. Not as software training. As a way of seeing. That work extended beyond my classroom. I have been invited as a Resource Person for FDPs at the University of Hyderabad, Christ University, REVA University, and Jain University — and as Guest Faculty at Nitte and Manipal Academy. And then I started building. Today I am developing AI-powered HR tools from the ground up — an automated CV screening pipeline, a LinkedIn profile analyser, and a voice agent for HR — using n8n, ElevenLabs, Docker, Supabase, and GCP. From a dental chair in Visakhapatnam to agentic AI pipelines in Hyderabad — every step has been the same question, asked at greater depth: How do we make organisations work better for the people inside them? That is still the only question I am trying to answer.