Rajneesh Mittal, Head of Technology & Content, UNext Learning

I like being a technology leader because...There is no business or function that is untouched by technology today. I love exploring all the aspects of a business and being a technology leader gives me a great vantage point to do that. That also fits in well with my take on digital transformation - get to the core of the business, solve business problems using tech, and you have digital transformation done!An 'Aha ' leadership moment in your professional career.It was a very small moment but one with lasting impact. After a couple of years in a leadership role, during my performance appraisal, my boss told me that he is able to understand technology much better after I have come around. I feel that’s a very important attribute of a modern-day CIO/CTO. We have to be on both sides – business as well as tech - and be the bridge between the two. We should be able to hop over seamlessly between the two worlds if we really want to be great tech leaders.As a technology leader what was the toughest decision you made?It was a massive multi-million dollar digital transformation and automation project. And not the enterprise IT one at that – a core business system. The decision was between fully outsourcing it vs. building the entire tech stack and running it on our own. I came face to face with the concept of sleepless nights and how long those can seem to be! You go through not only myriad technology choices and the decisions around them but also a full gamut of emotional calls as well. What’s safer to do? What’s the road less traveled? How will it turn out to be a decade later? And so on and so forth. Ultimately, it turned out great for the organisation. Very, very proud of that work.