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Azure Community Conference 2021
India’s largest Azure Conference
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The future of
Software developers by 2040
How latest trends will impact software engineering by 2040
and how developers can thrive.
29th October 2021 | 3 PM | Track 3

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VENKATARANGAN
THIRUMALAI
Whitespace leader, CEO Coach &
Microsoft Regional Director (Honorary)

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Why me for this talk?
• An engineer with 25 years experience in running a software firm(s) with
operations in India, USA and UK
• Been through four industry’, three business cycles & architected several high-
traffic applications
• A Microsoft Regional Director (Honorary) from 1999
• Created Simpligic – a U.S.patent pending (62/343,406) news app
• Predicted in 2003, that Mobile Phones will be the first and only computer for
the developing world

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1. Job Market
2. Work from Home
3. Technology trends
4. How to stay relevant? [C.O.L.A.]
Agenda

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The story
of the “compiler”

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Look at vaccine development & rollout
Developers are changing the world

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Ben Zorn, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research
“If you think about the world that we’re in now, software
plays a key role in our lives – in everything we do…
if we make software better, then we can make all the
things that depend on software better”

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• Number of graduates 36 Million per year (9 Arts, 5 in Science, 4 in Commerce, 6 in
Management, 3 in Law, 4 Million in Engineering) in India
• Total Engineers in India is about 1.5 to 2.5 Million per year
• 20-30% don’t find a job
• Computer Science is 0.9 Million
Not enough software engineers

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Boom time for software developers
Q2
Revenue
YoY
Growth
Net
Income
YoY
Growth
Vaccinated
Attrition
Rate
Hiring Trends
HCL US$2.79B 11.3% US$441M 4.0% over 70% 15.7% 11,135 new hires
Infosys US$3.99B 20.7% $734M 11.9%
86% one
dose
20.1%
(voluntary
LTM)
11,664 new hires
TCS US$6.33B 16.8% US$1.30B 6.5%
95% one
dose, 70%
full
11.9%
(LTM)
19,690 new hires
Wipro US$2.7B 30.1% US$395M 18.9%
85% one
dose, 50%
full
20.5% 8150 new 'freshers' in Q2
www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/india_it_services_covid/

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Good times don’t last
• Domestic software firms that employee over 16 million are set to
slash headcounts by a massive 3 million by 2022.
• More in-sourcing will happen, global dev centres will come
Reference: economictimes.indiatimes.com/jobs/it-companies-set-to-slash-3-mn-jobs-by-2022-due-to-automation-to-save-100-bn-in-cost-
report/articleshow/83575396.cms

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Jobs at risk
due to
Automation
by 2030
mckinsey.com/featured-insights/gender-equality/the-future-of-women-at-work-transitions-in-the-age-of-automation

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Work from home

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It is here to stay
• Automattic was always remote
• Twitter & Facebook in the USA
• Shipsy & Tata Steel in India

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Post pandemic, percentage of remote only software development roles in India*
* Based on my interviews
30-40%

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Technology – AI, Automation & more…

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Low-Code & No-Code
• Companies have an average of 129 apps, some have over 200 apps*
• Internal or professional applications costs average of $45,000 per application
* Study by Okta Inc in 2018

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CODEX from OPEN AI - Instruction
Reference: openai.com/blog/openai-codex/

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CODEX - Output

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CODEX: Spot it
arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf

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Title

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I got into the technical preview

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Copilot: Benefits
• Convert comments to code
• Autofill repetitive code
• Test without the toil
• Provide Alternative approaches

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kite.com
Kite for
Python

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CodeBERT: Microsoft Research

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Sketch2Code
from
Microsoft AI
Labs
microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-lab-sketch2code

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URL2Video
from
Google
ai.googleblog.com/2020/10/experimenting-with-automatic-video.html

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Code Defect
AI by
Microsoft
AI Labs
microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-lab-code-defect

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functionize.com
Testing
by
Functionize

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Technology trends
• AI-based dev tools will help quality requirements (No move fast; fail fast)
• Assign pair programming partners based on similarity of programming style
• Scrum Backlog assignments will be by AI
• Identify duplication, spot trends, do fewer and fewer rudimentary operations
• Read more at:
microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/research-collection-creating-the-future-of-software-development/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9121618

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How to stay relevant?

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• Continuous Learning
• Use tools (No-Code, AI, Automation) to Augment your skills
CO.L.A.

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Going to be upside-down
Work involved in Software development:
↗️
⬇️
⬇️

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Lattice Career Progression
• No lifelong jobs or roles
• Auto Drive vs Sports Mode
• Be ready for regulations and certifications

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Be truly global
• Hybrid working
• Global teams

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1. Job Market: Its fantastic now, but won’t stay that way
2. Work from Home: It is here to stay, 30-40% roles will be remote
3. Technology trends: AI dev tools will get better & better
4. How to stay relevant? [C.O.L.A.]
Recap

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Our Partners

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Communities

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THANK YOU!
@venkatarangan tncv.me

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Q & A