Tech IgniteTalks @ Medibuddy| May 2021

Tech Ignite Talks @ Medibuddy

Ignite Talks have been part of the Culture here at Engineering Team in MediBuddy. They includes addresses from Industry Experts, Fun activities and also retrospection at a Team level

The talk started with Enbasekar D, our CTO appreciating the team for coming together in these tough times. Being part of health care, it is our responsibility to step up at these times and we as a team are well aware of it. Remote work has its own advantages but makes loose that human touch which is a core element of an Office Environment.

Few of the Colleagues shared their personal experiences on how MediBuddy helped them in these tough times with Online Consultation, Lab Tests and Medicine Delivery

Enbasekar D also emphasised on the Pod Structure — Small Agile teams coming together to solve a Problem. The Increase in number of online consultations during the pandemic also make a call for us to more vigilant with respect to the Products we are delivering.

A Graph Depicting Increase in Demand vs Service

It is very important to remember what we are at the core occasionally.

MediBuddy is a Digital Health Care Platform, helping Customer with Online and Offline Consultation, Medicine Delivery and Lab Tests. MediBuddy also indulges on scale in Pre-Policy Medical Checkup and Tele/Video Verification for Insurance business. We are operating on a scale of 20 million on current date.

Guest Speaker #1

We have Nitish Jha, Currently Head Of Engineering at Gojek, also served as Director of Engineering at SwiggyBytes as one of our Key Note speakers today. It is very nice to hear from some of the Industry experts solving similar problems across the industry.

Remote is here to stay! — One of the key quotes to take way, so be prepared and hang-in there.

Principles of Engineering Principles have been core at the speech by our Guest Speaker.

1. Engineer for Business — Engineering exists because there is Business!
2. Know your User, if you can Be your user. If you can’t be the user, Make sure to invest in the tools that gives you insights on the same
3. Leave No User Behind
4. Build for Scale as a Culture
5. Things will go wrong — Accept and React to it appropriately. Build a culture of Blameless — Build loopback as a culture

Guest Speaker #2

We have Ganesh Subramanian, Heading Architecture at CRED as our next Key Note Speaker. Ganesh has also helped Swiggy as Principle Architect.

Focus of Ganesh’s talk has been Standardisation. He shared his experience at Swiggy and how he helped it scale. He helped Swiggy reduce the downtimes at it initial days.

• RCA Reviews has been one of the principle he helped Swiggy adopt so learning across teams is high and effective
• Pipeline Standardisation is one of the first steps in reducing downtime and bringing in visibility
• Standardisation of different tech stacks is done basis research and documents at Swiggy
• Creating Organisational level Architecture Blue Print is one of the main take aways of the Talk.

Talks were followed with Fun Activities including Na-Real Awards including Best Smile, Loud Speaker and it is fun filled. Nominations have been received across from all the teams and teams were awarded the following awards :)

• The Kapil Sharma Award
• The Helping Hand Award
• The Smile Award
• Mr. Jugadu
• The Mouse Award [ The Silence Award ]
• The Megaphone Award

The Session ended with Closing Team and Team Sharing laughs all across :)