Volunteer Driven Development™

Dakshin K (~dakshin-k)


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Description:

Here’s a bucket list of the pain points faced by the development teams on any product that’s been around for a while:

  • Uneven distribution of work within the team
  • High onboarding time for new devs
  • Debugging production issues is stressful
  • Complicated deployment schedules
  • Stakeholders not understanding why certain features take longer to develop
  • A general lack of happiness among the development team

If you’ve been grappling with any/all of these on your team, this talk is for you!


In this talk, we’ll look at various practices and thought processes to achieve the following outcomes:

  • Break down knowledge silos on the team
  • Leverage Python’s universe of libraries to find quick wins that substantially improve developer experience
  • Speed up onboarding by crafting the right environment for newbies to rapidly upskill
  • Bring in a tribe mentality amongst your developers, and get them motivated to move forward together
  • Keep stakeholders happy with constant communication

Prerequisites:

Prior experience with the following will help participants follow the talk, but is not mandatory:

  • Basic software development terms - Sprints, showcases, stories
  • Dealing with issues that require historical context of the decisions behind a system's design
  • Onboarding new developers and freshers onto the team

Speaker Info:

Dakshin is a Solution Consultant at Sahaj Software. When he isn't busy bingeing TV or playing video games, he enjoys nerding out over computers and technology in general. Over the couple years, he has been working with a team building a Data Platform using multiple languages and frameworks, including Python, Scala and Kotlin where he came across most of the concepts involved in this talk. His current hobbies include cycling and building custom mechanical keyboards.

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Section: Culture and Society
Type: Talks
Target Audience: Beginner
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