Scaler Academy
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ScalerPod by Scaler, where our host Arnav Gupta talks to the leaders of the biggest tech companies from India about the software engineering challenges they are solving and the products they are building for scale. Episodes over weekends by Scaler Academy, talk about software engineering - design, architecture, work, life, work-life balance, careers, and everything in between. Are you a software engineer? (Especially in India?) - follow immediately!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Engineering leaders explain how architecture, product validation, data science, and career choices meet inside technology organizations.
Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer's Podcast follows a repeatable interview move: Arnav Gupta starts with how a guest spends the workday, then works toward the systems, products, and career choices behind it.
Arnav asks about the workday, then you hear a CTO admit his architecture burdened mobile engineers.
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A concise case for spotting rare company moments early and leaning into hypergrowth.
Prasanna Sankar frames the discussion around Six Sigma events as rare tail outcomes, and the point lands clearly: the real advantage is spotting them early and getting in before the crowd.
A grounded look at hospitality tech, fast booking, and product choices under scale.
Hospitality is the starting point, but the real thread is how technology can reshape an old industry. The conversation treats software as a practical enabler: booking flows should move quickly when someone is ready to book, and the benefits should reach the smallest hotel, not…
A practical founder-to-funder conversation that keeps returning to market reality, validation, and cofounder fit.
This episode leans into the practical side of startup building: how venture capitalists think, what a VC week looks like, why founders should validate demand before writing code, and why cofounder fit matters as much as product instinct.
A CTO routine opens into a practical account of Meesho's early marketplace and scaling constraints.
Scaler Pod frames Sanjeev Barnwal's routine as a window into Meesho itself: a CTO who begins with exercise or reading, kicks the day into gear with a morning meeting, and spends the rest of it putting out fires in a hyper-scaling company.
A grounded story about curiosity, self-teaching, and learning beyond exam answers.
Arpit Bhayani's conversation treats curiosity as an engineering habit, and it draws a clear line between exam-centered schooling and real learning.
A steady systems piece about scaling PhonePe without treating mobile as an afterthought.
Rahul Chari reads as both founder and CTO, and the most useful moments are the practical ones: the early start, the stack of Confluence pages, and the review-heavy back half of the day.
A practical look at building a data science program, from hiring and mentoring to the value of a simple baseline.
ScalerPod centers on the practical work of building a data science program. Varma, founder of Applied Roots and now leading Scalar's data science and machine learning vertical, splits his time between both efforts.
A grounded fintech conversation linking a disciplined daily routine to enterprise credit infrastructure.
Vikram Verma's conversation starts in a familiar place: an early workday, tea, newspaper editorials, meditation when time allows, and Tai Chi picked up during COVID. It then shifts into his role at UB Finance and the company's goal of acting as a debt marketplace for enterprises.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Arnav Gupta interviews Nirdosh Chouhan, SVP of Engineering at OYO, about his journey from a failed college startup to tech roles at Apple and NetApp.
Arpit Bhayani discusses his journey from engineering roles to leadership at companies like Unacademy and Google, sharing insights on system design, data engineering, and career growth.
Rahul frames his role as two jobs at once.
Sanjeev talks through what a typical day as Misho's CTO looks like.
Vikram Verma, SVP Engineering at Yubi, shares his 20+ year journey from early startups to Oracle, Yahoo, and fintech entrepreneurship.
Varma joins Scalar Pod to talk about the work he is doing at Scalar and Applied Roots.
Rajiv Srivatsa, Partner at Antler and former Urban Ladder founder, breaks down how a venture capitalist spends time across customers, capital, team, brand-product, and ecosystem work.
Prasanna Sankar joins for a wide-ranging conversation about six sigma events and the rare moments that can change a career.