Apr 27 2024 105 mins 2
In this episode of Scaler Pod, we have Joydeep Sen Sarma, Co-founder & CEO of ClearFeed. From achieving an exceptional all-India rank of 18 in the rigorous IIT-JEE exams to reshaping the tech landscape with his pioneering work on consistent database systems, Joydeep's journey showcases his strong determination. As a Data Infrastructure Lead at Facebook, he collaborated with colleague Ashish Thusoo to develop the groundbreaking Hive data warehouse software which is now also called Apache Hive. Their joint success propelled them to co-found Qubole, a state-of-the-art platform in data analytics. Later Joydeep started ClearFeed in the year 2021.ClearFeed is a software program that helps businesses manage customer support requests on Slack. It uses AI to track inquiries, identify urgent issues, and measure how the queries are getting resolved internally. ClearFeed helps businesses provide better customer support by streamlining communication and offering valuable data on Slack. In this episode of Scaler Pod, Arnav Gupta, Anshuman Singh and ClearFeed CoFounderJoydeep Sen Sharma discuss their Facebook days where Joydeep talks about his #createimpact journey when Facebook was relatively immature and was one of the first engineers on the data team. Arnav also discusses about how database sharding works for managing database infrastructure. Joydeep also discusses about working with major taxi companies like Grab, Lyft, and Ola as customers for Qubole. Here are the detailed list of topics they all had a discussion about in this new Scaler Pod podcast:- 00:00 - Trailer 02:00 - Introduction 02:33 - Joydeep's Journey 07:42 - Facebook Days of Anshuman Singh 09:35 - Story behind how Facebook Messenger was Built? 21:45 - How Qubole was started? 24:42 - Cloud computing and Big Data weren't taken seriously initially. 29:00 - Data Analytics & Cloud Computing: What's the correlation? 31:35 - What went wrong with Qubole? 34:09 - Challenges working with Open Source softwares. 39:24 - How large tech companies are created? 45:46 - What worked for Facebook? 46:56 - How Qubole team was built? 01:02:06 - Should you study abroad (USA) for tech education? 01:13:30 - Clearfeed's AI Integration & Working Principle 01:19:56 - Thoughts on AI Replacing Engineer's Work 01:31:22 - Thoughts on AI Replacing Jobs 01:34:23 - Need for Quality Engineers for the upcoming years in the tech industry 01:44:49 - Conclusion
