SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

RAMAPURAM CAMPUS

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS (MCA)

 

The Department of Computer Science & Applications organized an Alumni Talk on Software Development Career  –  Goals and Perspectives

Date: 17.12.2021

Time:10.00 am to 11.00 am

Participants: PG  Students

Guest Speaker:

Mr Gopinath R

MCA Alumni (Batch: 2007 – 2010)

Principal Software Engineer

Oracle Corporation

Chennai

Title: Alumni Talk on Software Development Career  –  Goals and Perspectives

Dr.J.Dhilipan, Professor and Head / MCA, presented the welcome address and he welcomed the chief guest of today’s  Alumni Talk

He concluded his address by explaining the importance of Career Aspirations in IT Industry and requested all the participants to get benefited from today’s session.

TECHNICAL SESSION

Mr. Gopinath R started with an importance of how to set goals and how to approach as an career aspirant in  IT industry and elaborated about different in IT industry to work. Mr Gopinath R also explained about the skill set needed for each area.

The following areas in the IT industry were discussed by the resource person:

  • Front End Developer and Back End Developer
  • Full Stack Developer
  • UI/UX Designer
  • Database Developer & Administrator
  • Manual & Automated Testing Engineer
  • Mobile App Developer
  • Dev ops Engineer

Mr Gopinath R also explained about choosing different types of software companies , how they operate and how to prepare for each type of companies and gave few examples of well-known companies.

  • Service based Companies
  • Product based Companies
  • Startup Companies
  • Banking and Investment based Companies
  • InHouse Companies.

 

Mr Gopinath also encouraged the students to have a self resume on preparation of short term and long term goal and to analyze it periodically.

Then the entire session was opened to the audience for clarification of their doubts and interaction

Vote of Thanks was delivered by Mr. D.Rajkumar , Assistant Professor of MCA Department, he thanked the Chief Guest for his intellectual address to Participants.

Total no of participants benefited : 72