0:01 I'm Ram Kandasamy. : 2

I'm 29 years old. : 4

I'm a senior software engineer at Applovin : 6

and I make 160 thousand dollars a year. : 9

Let's say you're playing a game on your phone : 11

and then you're interrupted by an ad. : 14

That ad is what Applovin does. : 16

We serve ads. : 17

I work on the platform team. : 19

The primary responsibility of the platform team : 21

is to build the infrastructure that allows us : 24

to serve these ads at scale. : 27

Specifically what I do, : 29

I have two main responsibilities. : 30

The first is to work on the big data cluster. : 34

This big data cluster basically stores all of our data. : 38

My main responsibility there is to build tools : 41

that'll help other teams within the company access the data : 45

and run numbers on the data in a very fast : 49

and efficient manner. : 51

My second responsibility is to also make use : 54

of this cluster to do some production use cases : 57

on user and fraud analysis. : 60

When you're starting out as a software engineer : 63

almost everything you do it's, kind of, : 65

do this, do that. : 66

It's very much like, "Here's a task. : 68

"Here's how you should code it. : 69

"Go ahead and do it." : 70

But, as you spend more years in industry, : 74

you're kind of expected almost to think : 77

of different ways to optimize your own product. : 81

In effect, you're supposed to own a product : 84

or own an area of the company. : 89

Your primary goal should be to implement : 91

what management deems is the goals for the organization. : 96

A secondary responsibility for yourself : 98

should be to figure out what are the weaknesses : 102

of the product? : 103

How could I use my engineering knowledge : 106

to make those weaknesses better? : 108

I would say my favorite day at the office : 110

was probably the day that I finished my first project. : 115

Coming into Applovin, it's a little bit intimidating : 118

because they continue to be a very successful company. : 123

When you first start at a company, : 124

you're eager to prove yourself : 126

and to prove that you belong. : 129

The first project I did, they wanted it done very quickly. : 133

So, I had to learn all about their programming stack : 137

and how they structure their code and everything : 140

in addition to actually solving the problem : 142

that I was faced with. : 144

To be able to figure all of that stuff out : 147

within a week, which was their deadline : 150

that they had established, : 152

it was definitely a relief. : 155

I felt great after doing that.: