The Engineering behind Top-Tech platforms | Ft. Vishwastam Shukla, CTO @HackerEarthInc | SCALERPOD 29

In this ScalerPod episode, Vishwastam Shukla, CTO of HackerEarth, shared insights from his Amazon internship and the hands-on engineering experience it provided, including building projects and learning about coding languages like Ruby, PHP, and JAVA. He discussed Amazon's backend, its growth, and the role of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in developing its e-commerce platform. Vishwastam also elaborated on the scaling challenges at HackerEarth, including managing 40 languages, the compilers, and the complexities of autocomplete and Language Server Protocols (LSPs).

He also covered the technical aspects of plagiarism detection for large user bases, concurrency management, and infrastructure scaling. Additionally, he highlighted the tech stack used to address engineering challenges and the role of AI in code complexity analysis and quality checks. He also compared Devin AI with ChatGPT for code writing.

He emphasized the importance of data structures, algorithms, and various skills sought by recruiters for young engineers. Viewers and aspiring software engineers might be interested in knowing how such organizations hire and the skills they focus on while reflecting HackerEarth's commitment to innovation and software development for engineers.