1.Work on your own initiatives and be independent
 

 
A solution starts with an idea which becomes a proposal and soon it translates into work. In enterprise software development where projects are long and scope is large, people become risk averse so they propose new idea with either a PoC (proof of concept) or a demo. These PoC’s and demos is the key that sells more than your words. Action speaks louder than your words and these demos are what even your customer will demand before they invest in your new idea.
 
Most of the time PoC and demos are built for solutions which are pushing some boundaries or are cutting edge i.e. based out of new technologies, concept or way of working. And the engineering teams who build these are the ones who play a major role in driving the entire project effort. While building these demos you might not have access to the resources, teams or even company money to host your server sometimes. Sometimes you have to generate own data to demonstrate the idea on systems. In those scenarios you need to have end to end understanding of systems to build or help build, present and impress the customer.

2.Knowledge is power and experience is potential
 

 
Mastering your craft and becoming the go to person of your floor don’t only attract promotions but also a respect for you. You feel much more confident and your awareness is high, much higher than Tim on the next building who has a monthly subscription of the Most Tech-Trending technology magazine and thinking about starting his own startup but never completed the App because in Tech-Trending technology magazine don’t cover how to code what runs your App.
 
You also don’t have to work on everything which you learnt but having a deep understanding helps you speak from your experience and not guessing in your monthly meeting where your Boss Mike always ask you “What do you think about this solution?”
 
You mentor people, you in go in L&D Team training as guest lecturer, you take brown bag session for other employees of your company and before taking any major technology decision the C Suit always invites you to review it. That kind of position is having a fulfillment of its own. And at the end of the day when you are sleepy you remember your day and feel good about your life and even the next day.
 
3.Work is not always simple on other side of the edge

• When you are aware about end to end development, you know exactly what the integration developer will do to your Backend code and how the UI team will use API’s to run your backend development. You design the backend code such that the UI teams thanks you because you are returning the object which is exactly the same data structure which the Table view in front end is made of because you know the UI team can directly bind the data in model.
• You can take important decision keeping in mind front end, integration, backend and long term requirement of the project and your customer always consults you before anyone for any major question on the project.

 

 
Let’s understand what actually is CORE. Why did we name it CORE?
 
CORE stands for Create your Own Recommendation Engine. What we have experienced in enterprise is machine learning and big data are the technology where major new developments are being made and these are the consultants who are not only future ready but are also making a lot of money in current projects as well.
 
To give you a number, it is about 80 to 90 % of the projects where people are working on a Big Data challenge and in fact big data and machine learning are growing together and they have gone hand in hand too and there is no other way to do it, because machine learns better when you train them with large data set. The real challenge, the Million dollar question is how to do it in real time and where can it fit in your business. It is like your first salary, you don’t know what to do with it.
 
When you are using an application where entire data which is acquired over a period of 30 or 40 years or may be 5 years of data or even 1 year of data .In this case the challenge is much harder to solve because it becomes a big data problem and the tools necessary to solve them are completely different. Even a simple task of sorting 10 million records or just 1 million records can become a big data challenge far along making it do what your customer wants, which is like racing a bunch of horse with spoon in mouth and making sure the potato on it doesn’t fall.
The next thing is machine learning. Here, if you can’t really use the power of a computer and take advantage of its ability to learn then it can’t help you be more productive. I mean no disrespect here but in that case there is no difference in you and Billy who lives next door and still thinks unicorns are real.
 

 
To understand the seriousness of the situation you might have to look into who might use it. Consider it the dragons used in Games of Thrones; if you have dragons just 3 of those then you can defeat the entire army of 10,000 men or more. Machine Learning is that dragon if you know how to use it. You might not fly with it or say cool commands while riding it but you still need to know the commands to start your ML tasks right?
 
When it comes to real competition any big company having a known rival, and they need to keep themselves one step ahead because sometimes it is winners who take it all and losing means a lot. Imagine you are a FMCG company and you launched a product in a new market and want to make sure the 23.7 Million USD you invested to make that product go live and available in store gives you return and also take off. You also need to make sure of what if scenarios. In your successful campaigns, knowing what will happen and getting prepared for it before hand is all the difference it makes.
 

It can happen that you spend 30% of the budget marketing, hiring a big celebrity to endorse the product and create an awesome advertisement. If the product took off and suddenly you realized that the container on which it is sent cannot be produced on large quantity because the raw material is out of stock. And it takes month to get a new stock of raw material as the plastic you use have a special procedure of manufacturing which is fermentation and it takes 3 months for manufacturing. In that case if you are a marketing manager or production manager who was marked in CC of every email for this new product launch better start looking for a new job and good luck if they ask you the question – why did you leave your previous Job?
 
The entire point here is, it is real for businesses when they put money on any new endeavor which can be an investment from their part and failures have consequences. Your solution can make all the difference if it is done right or it is not done right. It can be the root cause of you and your company winning most innovative business award or becoming an example which they teach in business school of what not to be!