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Mushtaq Ahmed: From Doctor to Coding Architect - Episode #5
In this episode on Expertease, we have an honest and insightful conversation with a dear friend and colleague Mushtaq Ahmed, Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks Pune. We cover topics ranging from his interests, his journey from studying to be a Doctor, then becoming a BA, then a Developer and now a Senior Technical Leader; and his passion for programming. He is a Scala evangelist. In the later part of the podcast we discuss his work with Thirty Meter Telescope and architecture principles for building systems at Astronomical scale.
In this podcast…
- 2:20: Rapid Fire Round - Getting to know Mushtaq.
- 12:40: Journey from being a doctor to becoming a programmer.
- 15:30: LifeSciences, BioInformatics and RadioAstronomy.
- 24:50: Joining Thoughtworks as a BA. And then switching to becoming a programmer.
- 30:30: What would be your advice to new programmers in the industry to become really good at their craft?
- 45:45: Mushtaq’s transition from Programmer to Senior Tech Leader on Optical Telescope Mega-Project (TMT). And how to delegate and cultivate team members.
- 1:00:00: How do you engineer a system for scale – which is at Astronomical scale (literally!)?
- 1:11:00: Low Latency Streaming of Events (not using Kafka) & Delta Lake.
- 1:15:25: Where will all the TMT systems be deployed? Which Cloud?
- 1:17:30: How Mushtaq leverages the power of twitter for learning.
Episode Length 1h:23m
Show Notes
- Intellij
- Fork software for git
- Hackers and Painters (Paul Graham): Book & Article
- Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule - Paul Graham
- R Programming Language
- TMT Project is OpenSource: Website, Code on Github
- Mushtaq on Twitter mushtaqa
- Talk by Mushtaq on Demysitfying Reactive Jargons (Youtube)
Credits
- Background Music by BenSounds