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Life after PhD
An insight and a few tips to kick-start your career in the industry.
Malinda Kapuruge
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Hi,
• PhD at Swinburne (2008 – 2012)• Postdoc (2012 - 2013) • Now a Consultant at DiUS Computing
2004 2008 2014Acedemia (~ 5 yrs)
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The contents are based on my experience.
May/may not be applicable to others.
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Industry vs Academia
Financial
Flexibility
Ownership
Team culture
Work-life balance
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And the Winner is …
The Parameters !
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As a researcher,
• What skills do I need in order to kick start your career in industry?– Transferable skills– Extra skills
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Transferable skills
Critical thinking
Data management
Perseverance
Report writing
Self-motivated
Time management
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A doctoral thesis
• Not just yet another book• A process • You will be transformed• You will acquire those transferable skills
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How about extra skills …?
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What it like to be a SE consultant?
• Short gigs• Newt tech, processes, people (& coffee shops)• Technical spikes / feasibility studies• Learn fast and move quickly• Mentoring existing staff• Polyglots• Bench time
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Team composition
DEVs QA UX PM
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Rituals
[ Daily ] Standups Retrospective Sprint Kickoffs
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Extra skills
• Communication • Networking• Understanding the “customer problem”• Ability to add value from day 1• The Software Engineer mentality
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The Software Engineer Mentality !
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Code !
Code !!
Code !!!
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Thinking performance
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Thinking scalability
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Master the CLI
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Develop good S.E. habits
Go to bed at 3AM?
Automate everything! Save time !!Use suitable tools
Appreciate others
work ! Fix things !!
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Practice TDD
Write Test
Write codeRefactor
Start
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Learn Agile
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Be aware of trends
• Big data• Internet of things• Flying robots• Scripting languages
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Technical meetups
• Small groups• Like-minded• Various roles / organizations• Mutual benefits• Quick feedback• Interactive
.com
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Open-source projects
• Visibility• Communication• Something Tangible• Free testers / contributors ;-)
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Join a good organization
• That value your research skills• That promote learning• The size does not matter• But the culture is
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culture
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Brown Bags
• Lunch time - every Tuesday • Free lunch ;-)• Fun ! and social !!• Someone participated a conference• To pitch a crazy idea• Invited talks
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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Similar to a technical meetups• Focused groups to improve technical skills– E.g., IoT, Cloud, UX
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Hack days
• Twice a year• Paid to go NUTS !!
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Some interesting projects…
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Intelligentli
To upload and monitor your sensor readings as annotated time series data, e.g., geo locations, tags
E.g., sample demos: https://smokealert.intelligent.li/https://livevu.intelligent.li/
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Pact framework
• Integration Tests are a Scam – J.B. Rainsberger• Unit testing for Micro services• Consumer driven contracts • DSL• Available in Ruby/JVM/JS
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Aerial sensing
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