Presentatiion with a tech-talk and motivation I gave as a member of the alumni to the students of CJITS on career progression in the IT industry and trends in the web development last year.
Employee of the Month - Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Presentation to the students of CJITS (Feb 2014)
1. Welcome!
..to the students of Christu Jyothi Institute of Technology and Science.
A glimpse of the recent trends in the software
industry and a window to your career.
Chris Sekaran
christopher.sekaran@gmail.com
19th Feb 2014
2. India’s competitive edge in the Global
Software forum
Preferred choice for back-end processing
Cost effective (~$120 billion in revenue in last year-NASSCOM)
with about 60% exported to the US region.
Diverse Human resource pool
Increasing quality of colleges and graduates
Hubs generate indirect employment
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-
100-best-jobs
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45mkkh/no-1-software-
developers-applications-and-systems-software/
3. Risks involved
Competition from East Europe countries, South east Asia,
Australia mostly SaaS providers
Linear software contracts | Pyramid model | Limited product
shelf life
Privacy and Intellectual Property
Pricing models and employee retention
4. Education fundamentals
Conceptual subjects like DBMS, Operating
systems/Computer Organization, Mathematical models,
Probability, Advanced Data-structures, OOAD,
concurrency and caching, practical subjects and
practice… and it goes on……
Importance of Engineering in design
5. Factors driving the web, customer, employers
& time-to-market efficiency
Open source technologies and showcasing.
Apps development and pervasive collaboration
SMAC – Social | Mobility | Analytics & Big-data | Cloud
Internet natural growth.
Disruptive technologies
Agile | lean | Pair programming | RUP | Refactoring | TDD
6. What makes a good web-application great and
Key performance indicators
Scalability
Performance on load
Responsiveness
Optimal profile
UX, Accessibility, form factor
Support intrinsic or less support dependant
7. How to determine the right career
choice
Options, short-term/medium-term
Expert in tool
Storage SAN and Network
Server administration
Data-store admin and DDL and DML(SQL) developer
Programming languages (Java, C++, .Net, Perl, etc.)
Designing CAD | GWT | Web technologies | Adobe photoshop |
Dreamweaver, MATLAB)