OTC CatchUp #70 Summary

General introductions.

Shubham Sah told us that they are planning an offline TensorFlow User Group (TFUG) Mumbai meetup soon. Do join their Telegram group for updates.

Shubham Sah explained his work at FedEx which mostly revolves around Data Cleaning and migrating older systems to newer standards.

Shubham Sah and Kartik Soneji talked about the SAP’s Crystal Solutions.

We had a conversation about Log4j, where Shubham Sah told us that it was an issue with Java Naming Directory Interface (JNDI) which was discovered years before, but not patched.

Ramyak Mehra expressed interest in learning Compiler Design, for which Jaden Furtado shared a few resources.

Darshan Rander talked about his recent internship interview experience at UBS.

Prathamesh Shanbhag talked about his work experience at AutoVRse.

Darshan Rander, Harsh Kapadia, Sreekaran Srinath and others discussed whether it is okay to take sponsorships for community meetups and events.

We also had a long discussion on DevRel and its pros and cons.

We talked about interview processes with Anil Harwani and also talked about what Whiteboard Interviews are and why is it necessary to have different styles of interviewing for different positions.

Anil Harwani advised us that to grow, we needed to devoid ourselves from all the luxury hardware and work on bad hardware.

We laughed while reminiscing the GTA San Andreas Hot Coffee modification.

Anil Harwani showed us a few research papers and asked us to read them.

Jaden Furtado showcased updates to his 'To Do' web app with a robot made with Three.js.

Nikshita Karkera showcased the project she is building for The GDSC 2022 Solution Challenge.

Prathamesh Shanbhag showcased his links/portfolio site made with Three.js that also has a Tesla Cybertruck model.