Top misbeliefs about AI with Anuj Gupta | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 18
Catch interesting conversation with Anuj Gupta and Bhavin Doshi about top misbeliefs about AI amongst leaders.
Jul 18, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Pakka Nimbu Podcast with Bhavin Doshi
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How to pick early-stage startups as your next job | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 17
#hiring #startup #pakkanimbu Summary In this episode, Abha Bhakoo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhabhakoo/), VP Talent at Lightspeed India, discusses how developers, architects, and engineering managers can determine if they are a good fit for early-stage startups. She explains the different types of companies and personas that recruiters work with, such as builders, scalers, and leaders. Abha highlights the qualities that early-stage startups look for in candidates, including hands-on experienc...
Apr 29, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 13
AI Career Counselling for Software Engineers | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 16
In this conversation, Bhavin Doshi interviews Anuj Gupta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anujgupta-82/) about career counseling for developers in the field of AI. They discuss whether developers should switch to an AI team, the importance of being AI aware, and how to make oneself more AI aware as a software developer. They also talk about the wrong steps to take in adding AI to one's resume, how to catch companies that glorify AI in job descriptions, and the critical questions to ask to understand...
Apr 15, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Practo Tech Deepdive with CoFounder and CTO Abhinav Lal | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 15
#practo #seniorengineer #softwareengineers In this conversation, Bhavin Doshi and CTO of Practo Abhinav Lal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavlal/) discusses various aspects of tech debt and architectural decisions at Practo. Abhinav clarifies misconceptions around tech debt, emphasizing that tech debt is an intentional choice. He also shares insights into Practo's tech stack, including the use of SQL databases and Elasticsearch. He highlights the importance of addressing tech debt iteratively...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Getting hired as software engineer | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 14
In this episode, Prajwal Kumar, AVP of Human Capital with Matrix Partners India, discusses the role of talent acquisition and its importance for businesses. He emphasizes the need for founders to have a clear understanding of their team-building requirements and aspirations. Prajwal also highlights the role of recruiters as candidates' advocates and the importance of building relationships with them. He provides insights into sourcing candidates and optimizing LinkedIn profiles, including the ne...
Mar 17, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Hackerrank chronicles with CoFounder and CTO | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 13
Hari talks about the journey of starting HackerRank, expanding the team, scaling the organization, the tech stack and infrastructure, monitoring and alerting, front-end development, and shares some scale experiences and mishaps. In this conversation, Hari Karunanidhi, the CTO of HackerRank, discusses various technical challenges and scaling issues faced by the company. He emphasizes the importance of end-to-end ownership and the need for developers to understand the whole context of their work. ...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Dynamics of Software AI Startups with LLM and GPT | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 12
Harshad Saykhedkar shares his background and past experiences in the AI/ML field, including working at Slack and Astro. He discusses the challenges of transitioning from hardware to software engineering and the importance of effective communication in remote work settings. Harshad also talks about the acquisition of Astro by Slack and the learnings he gained from working in a US-based company. He then dives into the early days of building xAmbit AI, the decision to quit his full-time job, and th...
Feb 03, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Maintaining Dependencies in real-world software projects | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 11
In this conversation, Sahil Ahuja and Bhavin discuss the challenges and strategies of managing library dependencies in software development. They explore the differences between patch, minor, and major versions and the impact of each on code stability. They also delve into the complexities of major version upgrades and the need for careful planning and testing. The conversation highlights the importance of maintaining a layered repo structure to facilitate easier bug fixing and code changes. Sah...
Jan 22, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Sustainable Progress and importance of Boredom for Software Engineers | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 10
Why is boredom important for software engineers? What is the power of jargons to allow you to think about very complex things in a simple manner? Which of the generalist vs specialist hiring should you prefer as a candidate? Find out about all of this, and more, in this episode of Pakka Nimbu Podcast with Manu Manjunath, Senior Principal Engineer at Atlassian, who shares unique insights from his long journey through various startups! This episode is also available as podcast on all major platfor...
Nov 16, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Deep Work for Software Leaders and Developers | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 09
In this episode, Swanand Pagnis discusses the importance of deep work and how it can lead to career growth and mastery. He shares his experiences in building the Ruby community and highlights the challenges he faced in finding meaningful work. Swannand emphasizes the need for clear boundaries between deep work and shallow work, and suggests strategies for reducing the number of meetings. He also discusses the value of pairing-free time and the importance of thinking time. Overall, Swanand encour...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Software Quality in professional development | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 08
In this conversation, Anand Bagmar shares his journey in the software space and the defining experiences that shaped his beliefs. He discusses the transition from testing to quality and the importance of understanding agile and influencing quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Anand emphasizes the need to focus on practices rather than best practices, as what works in one context may not work in another. He also explores the challenges of managing empowerment and risk, and the i...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Craftsmanship for Pro Software Developers | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 07
The conversation explores the concept of the pirate mindset in the world of software development. The spirit of the pirate is about being rebellious, breaking rules, and embracing a sense of adventure and exploration. It is a reminder to not lose sight of the DNA of the rebel and renegade that drives innovation. The conversation also delves into the importance of craftsmanship and engineering in software development, emphasizing the need to be both a good craftsman and a good engineer. Pirate st...
Oct 11, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Hacking Career Growth as Software Professional | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 06
In this conversation, Bhavin Doshi and Senthil discuss the growth of software engineering and the importance of aligning architecture with business goals. They explore the concept of industrial engineering and the need for on-the-job learning. The conversation also delves into the balance between technical depth and managerial skills, emphasizing the importance of understanding the business impact of software solutions. They discuss the challenges of articulation and the role of emotion in softw...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Metaverse architecture, cost challenges and self hosting in software | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 05
In the episode 05 of Pakka Nimbu podcast, we have Sahil Ahuja, CTO of GMetri. GMetriXR is a no-code editor to build your own metaverse. Sahil talks about the architecture of metaverse system, moving away from cloud and self-hosting the infrastructure, creating a virtual file system and solving latency problems for global metaverse. He also talks about importance of IAC (infrastructure as code) to do sustainable infra, importance of incremental solutions (and avoiding big bang solutions), and ins...
Sep 12, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Flaky tests and developer experience in software teams | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 04
This conversation discusses the challenges of dealing with flaky tests and the impact they have on the development process. The speaker shares their experience of struggling with identifying and fixing flaky situations, as well as the psychological and operational impact it had on them. They explain how they decentralized the problem by defining test health and flakiness, building a service catalog, and routing alerts to the appropriate teams. The speaker also discusses the importance of approac...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Handling production issues as software professional | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 03
In this episode, Bhavin Doshi interviews Alagu Muthuraman, co-founder at Peoplebox, about a production issue they faced with collaborative editing. They discuss the challenges of debugging an issue that is hard to reproduce and the stress management required during such incidents. Alagu shares his experiences and strategies for staying calm and strategic in high-pressure situations. He emphasizes the importance of creating a safe space for the team, buying time to fix the issue, and normalizing ...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Beyond Documentation in Software Teams | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 02
In this conversation, Bhavin Doshi and Rajneesh Prakash discuss the importance of digging deeper to overcome challenges and stagnancy in one's career. They highlight the need for knowledge sharing and the consequences of not sharing knowledge, particularly in the context of on-call responsibilities. The conversation also delves into the challenges of alerting and monitoring operational, system, and domain issues, and the importance of proper alerting and response to reduce time wasted in solving...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Alerting and Monitoring as Software Lead | Pakka Nimbu Podcast 01
In this conversation, Amit Chhajer, the CTO of Trudoc, discusses the challenges of alerting and monitoring in production back-end systems. He shares his experience of dealing with excessive alerts and the impact of noise in the alerting process. Amit explains the process of reducing the number of alerts and the importance of ownership and teamwork in maintaining system uptime. He also highlights the significance of tracking metrics and reporting, as well as the need for continuous alert optimiz...
Aug 29, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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