Microland Digital Warriors

Microland Digital Warriors | 29 © MICROLAND LIMITED 2020. Internal Circulation Only 28 The thrill of doing big things early What do you do when you’re amongst the most junior in a high-stakes project? You enjoy the challenge. That’s what Dravid felt as he pitched in with the super stoked team of pure technologists working on the EY Big Data Cluster (BDC) project with one single agenda: Get one up on Microsoft. There’s this video of a basketball coach doing the rounds of how it’s more important to compete than just work hard. It’s that drive to beat Microsoft at their game that thrilled Dravid. Finding bugs and bringing it to the notice of Microsoft gave him the thrill of a big game hunter. And for Dravid, who recently stepped out of the hallowed precincts of an IIT, that’s the thrill of doing big things early. The EY BDC project was as new and cutting edge as cutting edge can get. Not only was it new to us at Microland, it was new to EY too. When you hear Dravid talk about the tech detailing on the project with Kubernetes, Linux Containers, VxFlex, Spark and DDFS, you see a fish in its water. And in this case, a shark with a relentless appetite to lap up new tech on the go. Speed is the name of every tech game and for Dravid gratification came in reducing a 12 to 14-hour data load process to a mere half-an-hour. Dravid also found a thrill in executing at scale the concepts he knew in theory. “There’s a big difference between knowing and implementing,” he says as in all modesty he recounts picking up the challenge as a 3-member crack team. And with a really good mentor on the project, the rest is history. This BDC deployment became Microland’s first and won us a multi-year managed services contract with EY, rocketing us into the world of data. As a starry-eyed NGTC, Microland’s idea of “Making Digital Happen” inspired Dravid. For him, it translated to “making tech accessible in every hand.” A space that he wants to eagerly pursue in the Medium blogs that he indulges in, alongside his world of music. We wish more digital power to this young man. Dravid Sarvesh Sundaram This Digital Warrior was responsible for the development of a datalake infrastructure for EY. The platform could ingest data upwards of 2TB/hour, and the system could also be throttled at half a million IOPS (Input / Output Operations Per Second).”