JAY CHAUDHRY LECTURE SERIES
The Jay Chaudhry Lecture Series on Software Best Practices is aimed at providing industry best practices to students pursuing a career in software. It is expected that these lectures will provide better insights into real world software engineering issues, enabling upcoming graduates to be much more productive as they start their careers.
The lectures will be given by IIT (BHU) Varanasi alumni who are industry experts and academic stalwarts, and will include both senior alumni stalwarts as well as recently graduated alumni who are rapidly making a mark.
SYLLABUS
The lectures will be delivered every Saturday 10:00 am to 11:00 am IST
Topic
Date
Lecture Resources
Kick-off
Jay Chaudhry is the CEO, Chairman and Founder at Zscaler, which is a computer and network security company in California. He graduated from IIT BHU from Electronic Engineering. He will be answering questions about his journey of building Zscaler.
16 July
What we wish the students knew
Raj Yavatkar is the CTO of Juniper Networks which is a computer networking products company in California. He is also an angel investor and an advisor to startups. He graduated from IIT BHU from Electronic Engineering. He will be sharing perspectives on value systems that will help you have a relatively great first year in a PhD program or in a software engineering job.
23 July
Challenges of building highly scalable systems
Kailash Kailash is the Chief Architect and Founder of Zscaler, which is a computer and network security company in California. He graduated in electrical engineering from IIT BHU in 1980. He will be discussing strategies to improve code efficiency, importance of low and high level fundas and the methodology to plan your techstack for scale up even when you are a small team.
30 July
The recent graduate perspective
Two recent graduates: Khushi Agrawal from Google and Lakshya Gupta from JP Morgan Chase will be sharing their perspectives on what they wish they knew when they were in college.
06 Aug
Challenges that GAMAM are working on
Details to be announced shortly.
13 Aug
Security as a basic tenet of software development
Rakesh Verma is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston. He graduated in electronics and communication engineering from IIT BHU in 1984. He has co-authored the book, Cybersecurity Analytics (CRC Press, 2019).
20 Aug
Test frameworks and how they will save your life one day
Details to be announced shortly.
27 Aug
Emerging Tech: Cloud-first approach:
Details to be announced shortly.
03 Sep
Emerging Tech: Microservices, serverless:
Animesh Pathak is the Head of R&D and Engineering at my Kaarma, an automotive customer interactions management company in California. He graduated in computer science engineering from IIT BHU in 2003
10 Sep
Emerging Tech: Building for the metaverse:
Details to be announced shortly.
24 Sep
Emerging Tech: Carbon-Savvy computing/Zero-Carbon Computing
Details to be announced shortly.
01 Oct
Navigating your career, ethics and other softer aspects
Details to be announced shortly.
08 Oct
Disruptive go-to-market strategies for Products and Software.
Atul Sinha is an advisor and board member in several companies. He has worked in high-tech centers in Netherlands, California, and India. He graduated in electronics engineering from IIT BHU in 1983.
15 Oct
Details to be announced shortly.
Details to be announced shortly.
29 Oct
Industry-grade Software Engineering
Hridesh Rajan is the Department Chair of Computer Science department at Iowa State University. He graduated in computer science engineering from IIT BHU in 2000. He would be doing a comparative assessment of project and product thinking, walking through the planning steps required while working in a team, metrics to assess code quality, strategies for project management and technical debt management.
05 Nov
