The JUIT Alumni Cell organized a talk by Mr. Aditya Kumar Singh an alumnus of the 2011 batch who has 10+ year experience in the IT industry with the last 7 being in healthcare domain. He is Currently based out of Bengaluru Working in Firefly Health, a US based healthcare Startup. He is the Director of Engineering of Firefly Health India. In the past he has also worked with Athenahealth and Accenture. The event took place virtually on 22nd Jan, at 11 a.m. on Google Meet platform.
The event started off with a few words from our Vice-Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajendra Kumar Sharma, followed by Secretary Alumni Cell Mr. Achyut Tiwari introducing Mr. Aditya Kumar Singh, followed by Dr. Saurabh Bansal who welcomed our prestigious alumnus Mr. Aditya, as well as thanked the other HOD’s and the audience for their presence and introduced the Alumni Cell to them.
Mr. Aditya Kumar Singh heartily thanked every faculty member for their blessings and wishes. He extended his greetings to everyone present in the meeting and started by sharing the experience of his inspiring journey, which has spanned over a decade.
He started off by recalling his time from Accenture where he was part of the team that build a software to keep and manage the scheduling of ships delivering the products which took almost 2 and a half years. This software was then deployed for a company in Singapore, ranked 2nd in the world for ocean cargo industry.
After gaining this invaluable experience and knowledge of seeing and building a product from scratch, he went to work for Athenahealth. He explains that, it was merely a switch from a service-based industry to a product-based industry.
He further explains the difference between Indian and American healthcare companies. He worked on a product there, which essentially helped get doctors get paid faster, by checking the cause and minimizing the rejection of claims by the patients. Soon, he moved to their clinical department, where he worked on the software that the doctors used and further emphasized and explained the digitalization of healthcare in the USA.
He then stressed on the importance of learning new languages like node JS and java. Then he talked about the rise of data science and its functions as well as it’s different aspects and uses in health care.
He also advised the students to take up internships as they are important for gaining invaluable knowledge as well as experience in the field. He also stated out the importance of participating on platforms such as HackerRank and Github as it will help the students during their interviews.
Lastly, he concluded by answering the questions and doubts put up by the students and well as by the faculty members.
Mr. Samyak Handa, who is a graduate from 2015 batch, then asked him a question regarding the same, that it is indeed very difficult to find good internships which provide hands on experience to students, further they only do so if the students are exceptional in nature. So what should be done in regards to this. Which he tackled by saying that, students must look for startups that would help them and integrate them in main projects as well as be able to pay them simultaneously.
Several questions followed, and he answered them using the wisdom his experience and also with brief yet detailed explanations.
And finally concluded by thanking everyone who was present there and further, the Department Representative of BI/BT Branch Miss. Vinamarata, thanked Mr. Aditya for his gracious presence and rich words of wisdom, on behalf of the alumni cell, as well as expressed gratitude towards Vice Chancellor Prof. Sharma & HoD CSE Prof. Sehgal along with all the faculty members that were present in the meet.
