In this episode of Scaler Pod, we have Arpit Bhayani #AsliEngineering who is currently working at Google as a Staff Software Engineer and previously was Director of Engineering at Unacademy. He is making his own programming language for kids named Revine and also a database called DiceDB.  Apart from this, he has a cohort-based course on System Design and has taught 1000+ engineers, also, his newsletters and youtube channel are popular among enthusiasts as he pours out deep knowledge about various topics and sparks curiosity.  

We discuss with him his journey, his experiences while working in big tech companies alongside managing different roles and teams. He also shares his thoughts on the ongoing trends in tech space like ChatGPT, AI/ AR and elaborates upon the need to actually understand core engineering and develop that mindset to be curious about everything!  

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Timestamps:  

00:00 Teaser 

02:21 Introduction 

02:50 Arpit's day at Unacademy and Google 

06:02 His Journey and Learnings  

08:55 Shifting from IC to People Management Role  

13:48 Managing Stakeholders, Teams, and Creating value 

18:35 Engineers Mindset, working over Platform Side vs Product  

25:50 Building a Team and his ways of Managing Works 

29:15 Why make Data lakes and structure data in different organizations  

37:36 Setting Goals, Newsletter and Asli Engennring 

48:34 Building his own Programming Language for Kids - Revine 

57:29 His Database DiceDB - Golang-based KV store that speaks the Redis dialect 

1:10:20 His System Design Course and creating better engineers  

1:18:40 Microservices and understanding cost 

1:22:47 Breaking the Myth - Coding gets boring and no more to learn(becoming curious) 

1:29:05 ChatGPT, Augmented Reality and Future Ahead 

1:33:05 On New Programming Languages and his love for Research Papers 

1:39:02 Outro  

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