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SCALER POD 10 ft. Arpit Bhayani #AsliEngineering | His Journey, System Design, and Being Curious

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Feb 4, 2023

A conversation with Arpit Bhayani about his journey in big tech companies, creating a programming language for kids, and teaching system design. They discuss the importance of understanding core engineering, exploring ongoing tech trends like AI/AR, and the need to develop a curious mindset. Topics include managing teams, shifting from IC to people management, and the evolution of data platforms in company growth.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Navigating Leadership Challenges in Engineering

02:22 • 27min

Evolution of Data Platforms in Company Growth

29:15 • 7min

Exploring the Importance of Understanding Engineering Journeys and Context

36:01 • 2min

Teaching System Design and Creating a Programming Language

37:34 • 20min

Redis Source Code Exploration and System Design Implementation

57:20 • 13min

Bridging the Gap in Systems Knowledge for Engineers

01:10:19 • 18min

Exploring Future Tech in Podcasts

01:28:43 • 3min

Evolution of Programming Languages and Hardware Optimization

01:31:53 • 8min

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!

ScalerPod by Scaler is a one-of-a-kind podcast for engineers and tech enthusiasts, where our host Arnav talks to the leaders of the biggest tech companies from India and around the globe about the software engineering challenges they are solving and the products they are building for scale!

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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