Recently I had an opportunity to conduct workshop on “Recent IT Trends” for Engineering Undergraduate students. I spoke about technology trends and in specially about Python as a programming language.

Python has emerged as one of the top 5 programming languages in most of the surveys. Python has started slowly and steadily, however it become popular in last five years. Currently it is most sought-after language in the IT industry.

As per my analysis following are the reason for the meteoritic raise of python.

I. Faster learning curve

a. It is simple and easy to learn

b. It follows indentation which enhances the readability of the program

c. It’s a freely downloadable and open source

d. Supported by great community

e. It has great libraries

f. Its Object Oriented, Functional and scripting language

g. Portable

II. Wide variety of usages

a. Python is being as a backend programming language

b. Python is being used in Web Development along with python frameworks such as Flask and Django

c. Micro Python a mean and efficient implementation of python which is being used in embedded programming

d. Python is being used in Data Sciences as it has plenty of libraries such as Numpy,Pandas,Matlab lib,Scikit-Learn,SciPy etc.

e.Python is being used in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language processing and Computer vision

f. Python is being used as a scripting language in the system utilities and cloud

III. Industrial usage

a.Google is extensively using python in their search engine and You Tube

b. Google has build platforms/libraries such as Tensor flow and Keras which is being used in Machine Learning and deep learning. These libraries are extensively used in Google AI initiatives such as self-driven car

c. Forecasetwatch uses Python in weather forecasting

d. Altis uses python in risk management

e. LosAlamos uses Pyton in simulation, data analysis and visualization

f. Pearson uses python for the educational applications as a backend

IV. Domain agnostic

a. Smart city projects involving multiple government and private implementation agencies

b. Health Care in the form of data sciences, bots and wearables

c. Machine to Machine communication in Industrial IoT

d. Agriculture for data analytics

e. Social media analytics

f. Risk analytics in BFSI

Its high time to Skill, Re-Skill and Up-Skill on python and its libraries to build a technical competency.

Raghu Prasad Konandur

CEO, Kaushalya Tech

www.kaushalya.tech

Skill, up-skill and Re-skill is our motto.

I came from a family of teachers. I started my career as a Lecturer in an Engineering college. I worked as a lecturer for seven years. Later I realized that to be a successful lecturer I need to get real exposure in industry.

I left my job and joined a software company. I started my career as a developer in an IT industry. Got a chance to work with few startups in early part of my career and got good programming exposure through great mentors.

Later I worked with mid sized and large IT companies. I got experience in project delivery, architecture, presales and program management. I worked with top IT companies for their educational business. Worked in IT industry for seventeen years.

Off late I realized that there is a gap between academia and industry. I read many articles which indicated lack of quality students coming out of university. This prompted me to start ‘Kaushalya Technical Training and Consultancy Services’ an edutech

startup.

I learnt following lessons in last two years.

1. PHD (Passion, Hunger and Discipline) is the mantra for success.

My previous company mentor was talking about this in all our meetings I came to know what it means after starting my own. One needs to be Passionate about what one wants, have a Hunger to work for it and the Discipline to keep up the work even in the face of adversity.

It is very essential to have a bigger picture what you want to do.Do not do many things at a time. Go step by step. If you fail its fine. I really learnt what is a failure. Fail fast and move forward.

2. Networking in very much essential

I became active in social media and constantly published about service offerings of my company. My engineering classmate contacted me and I met him after 25 years.

He got me my first assignment. He also referred to other friends. Similarly, I met a business consultant who is in this business for long. I realized that networking is very important. I was limited to few friends while working for other companies.

Keep on advertising about your work whether people likes it or not. Keep meeting people personally or participate meetups and conferences.

3. Managing budget

As a bootstrapped entrepreneur managing fund is very important. A morning walk helped me to find co-working space with another budding entrepreneur. Minimize expenses as for as possible. Used public transport or two wheelers instead of four-wheeler.I got few consultants onboard on transactional basis. This also helped me to minimize cost.

4. Learn to course correct

I have failed in few assignments. Immediately worked towards corrective action. As I am in knowledge industry constant upgradation is very much essential. Spent hour on MOOCS and joined course at Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bengaluru. This has provided me opportunity to meet many entrepreneurs and learn from them.

5. Family support

Family support is key to success. I have borrowed money from my wife when I am running short of money. My parents and relative supported me in this endeavor.

I am glad that we are able to run the company for two years. What I have achieved is very less. But motivated to do much more. I take this opportunity to my customers, consultants, training partners and not but not the least friends and family.

Raghu Prasad Konandur

CEO

Kaushalya Technical Training and Consultancy Services

www.kaushalya.tech