Name: Building Scalable Technologies
Start: 2018-02-24T14:00-05:30
End: 2018-02-24T22:00-05:30
Location: Coworks Bangalore

Did you know that Indonesian unicorn GO-JEK processes more than 200 million internal API calls per second? Going with the microservices architecture helped the company achieve this scale and go beyond.

But what went on behind the scenes, how risky was the decision initially and, as a techie what did it take to execute it?
How does one go about building systems like Ola WiFi and Ola Play?
What should you know about Graph Database and how can you unleash its true potential?
How can you add voice to GUI to reach out to millions of users?

When

24th Feb 2018

Event Partner

Progate

Venue Partner

Coworks

Where

Coworks, New Indiranagar, Bengaluru

Agenda

Time

Session

Speakers

Description

1:30 – 2:00PM

Registration

2:00 – 2:15PM

Introduction and welcome note

Takuno Nishimura, Global Manager of Progate

2:15-2:45PM

Managing the hackers

Sidu Ponappa (Head of Data Engineering) and Niranjan Paranjape (CTO), GO-JEK

How management and programming are the same thing.
How organizations are distributed computing problems.
How good programmers can eliminate vast numbers of managers.
Why a disproportionate number of successful founders in the Valley are all programmers.

2:45-3:30PM

How to think about scale when it comes to your business

Aman Alam, Developer Evangelist, Akamai

What tools are available, and what could be a path to gradually scale from 10 users to 1 lakh users and then from there to a million.

3:30-4:15PM

Managing Dependency Hell in Microservice Architectures

Ankit Sobti, Co-founder and CTO, Postman

Lessons learnt while scaling GoJek and how did the company shifted to microservices architecture while keeping its services running.

4:15-5:00PM

Exploring Graph Databases

Mahadevan Kalyanaraman (Founder of stealth mode startup)

Why and how should you use graph databasesto leverage data relationships for real-time, enterprise-level insights.

5:00 - 5:45PM

Adding voice to the Graphical User Interface to make the internet more accessible

Kumar Rangarajan, Co-founder, Slang Labs

Helping app developers add a natural voice interface to control their apps

5:45 – 6:30PM

Networking over snacks

Speakers

Kumar Rangarajan

Kumar is the co-founder of Little Eye Labs, the performance monitoring and analysis tool for Android developers which was acquired by Facebook in 2014. He's currently building Slang Labs, a Voice-to-Action SDK, that enables apps to understand and react to their users' voice - with a focus on Indian languages. With over two decades of experience of building technologies, Kumar has been an architect and Director of Engineering in the past.

Mahadevan Kalyanaraman

Niranjan Paranjape

Niranjan is the Chief Technology Officer and Director at GO-JEK. With 11 years of experience as a programmer, consultant and entrepreneur, he started his career at Infosys, before moving to ThoughtWorks where he consulted for Fortune 500 clients. He then went on to co-found C42 Engineering, a boutique software engineering consulting firm. As CTO of C42 Engineering, Niranjan was responsible for building a high performance engineering culture focused on passion for new technologies, code quality and daily customer engagement. Niranjan has worked with a wide range of clients architecting and coding solutions across the entire stack from front end to infrastructure.

Sidu Ponappa

Sidu serves as a Director at GO-JEK and is the Head of Data Engineering and Global Talent Acquisition. Sidu has founded three startups, the last being acquired by GO-JEK in 2015. At GO-JEK, he first served as the Managing Director of India, establishing and scaling the India organisation before moving to head up Data Engineering. He also serves as a Director on the Board of GO-JEK. A hardcore techie at heart, Sidu started coding when he was six and has since gone on to co-found three companies launching four products. He has worked as an engineer, product manager, salesperson, recruiter, marketer, CTO and CEO. He has failed more times than he can count. He is an avid motorcycle lover.

Sriram V Iyer

Sriram is the VP - Engineering at Myntra. Sriram is very passionate about wireless and networks and has spent the last 14 years working in this domain. Prior to Myntra, he has worked in key roles in companies such as Ola, Altiostar Networks and United Mobile Apps Pvt Ltd. At Ola, Sriram led the team that launched the auto-connect WiFi for enhanced in-car experience.