Orphaned young and married early, her life seemed to be going based mostly on factors she couldn’t control. However, she refused to let education slip away. With determination, long commutes, and unwavering belief, she earned an IT degree, academic honors, and a Gold-grade digital certification. Today, she dreams not just of success but of creating opportunities, rewriting roles, and even raising the next generation in a world where no dream is dismissed.
Some people have names that tell you a lot about them. Shakthisree, literally translated as Strong woman, knew from a young age that she had to have super human strength to endure and overcome. She always believed that education would be a liberator. Even thought she lost her parents at a young age and grew up with her grandmother, she was married off young. But to her good fortune, her husband who hasn’t studied much is her biggest support. He’s the other hero in this story because of sacrifices he has to make. But he believed in her and stood strong with her decision. Together, they chose the tough road ahead.
That is how she earned her degree in Information Technology.
There was no backup plan. Only determination. Because Shakthisree believed something deeply: education doesn’t just give you skills, it gives you strength. Strength to stand in rooms you were never meant to enter. Strength to question decisions made on your behalf. Strength to imagine a future beyond survival.
And she didn’t stop there.
At college, she found her voice through words, securing first place in essay writing, not once or twice, but for four consecutive years. Later, she completed NASSCOM’s Digital 101 certification with a Gold grade, proving that excellence was not an accident. It was now becoming a habit. She doesn’t dream merely of a stable job; she dreams of rising to the top of her field. She wants to master multiple programming languages and, one day, create one of her own.
She speaks often of wanting to adopt a baby girl. To build a home where dreams are protected, not postponed. Where no one is ever told what they cannot become.
Shakthisree’s story is not just about breaking barriers. It is about redefining roles. She is a wife, yes. But she’s also a learner. She’s a technologist and such an inspiring example of the kind of hidden talent that rarely needs a nudge of encouragement, because she’s already reaching out to grab that opportunity.
For every woman who has been told it’s “too late,” “too difficult,” or “not meant for you,” Shakthisree stands as living proof that contribution has no fixed timeline and that your dreams have no expiry date.