Introduction

The Indian tech industry is one of the most lucrative sectors, as most global companies hire cost-effective Indian engineers skilled in all relevant and core technologies. As a report by Peerbits, IT companies reduce costs by up to 20% to 30% by offshoring their custom IT needs. Indian programmers and developers are renowned for being very well trained and constantly learning to upskill themselves. 

One of those engineers is Anas Sajan, a data engineer at Infosys Limited. He is helping companies find real value in their data and is turning out to be a valuable asset to his organization. Let’s decode his journey to know more about him.

 

His educational background

Anas had a keen interest in computers since his schooling days. He pursued a bachelor’s of engineering in computer science from KLS Gogte Institute of Technology in Belgaum, Karnataka, regarded as the top engineering college in the area.

 

His work experience

In his last year of college, Anas had an epiphany that the intense theoretical knowledge he was receiving wouldn’t cut it in the practical world of the technologically-fuelled, competitive job market. This is when he started to venture into newer technologies and studied them thoroughly to create a solid foundation for his soon-approaching placement days. 

The first step towards acquiring practical knowledge in his field of choice was an internship experience at LearnCodeOnline.in, a large coding platform that allows users to discover the world of coding through experiential learning. Here, Anas spent four months as a front-end developer at the organization.

Anas was also the community lead of Google’s Developer Student Club at his college. He was chosen as the ambassador of his college based on the portfolio of work he had built over the years during his academic years. His responsibilities in this role included conducting workshops, training his fellow students, conducting boot camps, mentoring sessions, and hackathons, and getting them interested in coding as a direct effort to bolster India’s coding literacy.

In his penultimate semester at college, he got an offer of an internship from Infosys and traveled to Mysuru for training as a business intelligence engineer, which was cut short due to the pandemic.

Currently, he is working as a data engineer at Infosys.
 

His USPs

Anas is a tech-curious, open-minded individual. He believes that skills and practical knowledge of any subject should be given more importance than one’s theoretical knowledge, a belief he has applied to himself with a positive spin. He is skilled at his job and yet unafraid to admit that there is yet to learn more in his domain to keep improving himself as a data engineer.

 

His projects

The most challenging project Anas ever worked on was a fraud detention application. It was a huge project with a significant investment as it helped clients reduce losses up to millions of dollars and increased profitability by 20%. So, the application allows bank users to send money from one bank to another, and Anas was responsible for reducing the runtime of the data pipeline. So this pipeline took a big chunk of time to run, creating a problem as many other processes were dependent on this pipeline. 

After a lot of research, Anas found out the root cause of the problem and took the initiative to fix the same. He managed to drastically reduce the run time of the pipeline from about 1.5 hr to about 5-10 mins. This also resulted in fewer bugs in projects.