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.

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)

9. References
 http://www.protiviti.co.in/en-US/Pages/A-Profile-of-Software-Industry-
Risk.aspx
 http://www.livemint.com/Industry/FXPE2yjjVrknGT3uJr33HP/SMAC-is-the-new-
flavour-of-IT-services-companies.html
 http://www.jntuk.edu.in/assets/files/pdfs/Syllabus/CSE.pdf
 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1200105
 http://cdn.designrulz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/quote-designrulz-
001.jpg
Motivational:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPx5N6Lh3sw (Gates)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM (Jobs)

10. Question time