SCALER POD 04 ft. Subhash Choudhary, CTO Dukaan | Building E-Commerce Cloud Infra for Millions

Welcome to #ScalerPod by Scaler where our host Arnav talks the leaders of the biggest tech companies from India about software engineering challenges they are solving!

At Dukaan, Subhash and his cofounder Suumit are building the e-commerce infrastructure on the edge of the cloud for the next billion! Dukaan lets anyone build their online store in minutes, and Subhash talks about their journey from SEO optimization to building a Shopify challenger over the last decade and how their team is surmounting challenges of extremely low latency page loads of shops on slow mobile internet connections across the globe!

What is Software Engineering?
Software engineering is a branch of computer science that focuses on the design and development of computer systems and application software.
Software engineers are experts in programming languages, software development, and operating systems and they use engineering principles to create software.

Who are software engineers?
Software engineers are experts in programming languages and software development, and they use engineering techniques to produce software.

What is Problem-solving in Software Engineering?
Problem-solving is the process of employing theories and research to find answers to a problem domain while testing multiple ideas and implementing best practices to get the desired result in software development. Utilising logic and imagination to find problems and find software solutions is another aspect of problem-solving.

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TimeStamps

00:00 Teaser
01:50 Introduction
02:50 Day in the life of Subhash
15:00 Young software engineers today
21:30 Making software reliable, and improve UX for users
24:30 How engineers work and work-life balance
27:00 How do you hire people ?
31:00 Subhash's early career experience
36:30 Job security, hiring and firing
42:00 Early SEO optimisation as freelancer
52:00 Meeting cofounder Suumit Shah
01:00:00 Building the first product company
01:04:00 Early idea of Dukaan from whatsapp-commerce
01:16:00 Expanding on SaaS offerings
01:20:00 Mindset of SaaS in India
01:24:30 Better CDN and Edge-level low latency content
01:32:00 Building an edge-computing stack
01:52:00 Edge level SSL, domain handling over BGP and anycast
02:00:00 Maggi Delivery Network (don't miss this!)
02:15:00 Competing with Shopify
02:19:00 Mobile-first D2C commerce shop pages
02:26:00 Innovating hiring strategy at Dukaan
02:36:00 Work Environment at Dukaan
02:39:30 Stress Free Zone at Dukaan office
02:43:20 Conclusion

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