Software Developers In India, A Growing Stream – Microsoft
A senior official of Microsoft said that India is becoming a land of software developers and this had made India 3rd largest in the number of such professionals after China and US. India is said to have around 4-5 million of software developers.
Narendra Bhandari, GM developer group in India, Microsoft said that the government has created such opportunities by digitization programmes that have opened new prospects for more than billion plus markets in the country with a new level of confidence and enthusiasm in the Indian developers’ community.
“The impact of these policy initiatives like demonetization and GST, which is being rolled out soon, on software developers is that people who are building these applications are now thinking, how I build these applications for a billion people, not for the twenty million people living in Bangalore and Mumbai and Delhi,” Bhandari told PTI in an interview.
“Over last two to three years, a lot of the developers now are not just building applications but they’re building experiences, they’re building retail capabilities, they’re building supply chain infrastructure, they’re building business applications. That has changed the landscape quite a bit,” he said.
The ecosystem in India has changed where it’s not just “I want to work on a large project and every three months or six months I’ll have a release, now you’re working on a project and you come up with capabilities every few weeks,” Bhandari said.
Bhandari gave an example of Freshdesk, a cloud based customer support platform, and said its software is sold in hundred countries. “Its CEO Girish (Mathrubootham) has not visited 100 countries. He was saying my software is sold in over a hundred countries. He’s not visited a hundred countries, he doesn’t have people in a hundred countries,” he said.
“This is a business application…There are many such examples of companies from India selling into hundreds of countries across the globe. That’s an opportunity which has been created, I would say, in the last couple of years.
“That’s a capability which has now been created in the last few years, and you’re able to reach out to people with very minimal efforts,” Bhandari said, arguing that as such India is now becoming land of opportunities for developers.
“Opportunities are opening up more and more for them (developers) to be able to reach the globe and also to serve India in a much more significant way. The Indian opportunity has grown significantly. The global opportunity is now available easily, are available for them to tap easily. The Indian opportunity has just exploded in size, and growing,” he asserted.
“A lot has been done but there are still further a few steps for the small companies, the software companies, to be able to tap into the opportunity,” he added.
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