Mr. Girish Pillai is the Chief Advisory Board Member at Audix Technologies, a fast-growing Mumbai-based business solutions provider. Mr. Pillai has over 27 years’ experience in the IT industry. He is well-known as a competent IT innovator with expertise in diverse areas such as Strategy, Business Delivery Enhancement, Process Optimisation and ERP Support. He is a PMP-certified project manager and enjoys working on challenging projects that test his skills, and enable him to prove his technical and business acumen.
When did you start your professional journey and how has it been so far?
I started my career in 1991 as a simple computer hardware engineer at Mumbai with well-known comport company
In this company, I learned a lot and that has helped my career growth over the years.
From there, I went on to work with multiple companies
Over the past 27 yrs in the IT industry, I have worked as a CTO for 11 years with both Public as well as private companies in multiple domains.
Currently I am the owner of a startup called Audix Technoconsultancy Pvt Ltd .
We provide complete IT solutions for Application Performance Management ,Cyber security and Robotics Process Automation (RPA).
What are some of the challenges you faced during this journey and how did you overcome them?
I would say that my toughest challenge was implementing CRM and ERP in one of my earlier companies with a distributed IT setup. But I managed and gave it my best effort with the help of my entire IT team. I also got meaningful support from management. Eventually, we successfully implemented the CRM/ERP platforms at PAN India level within the provided timeframe. That was a huge win for us.
What according to you are some critical job skills in today’s work landscape particularly in your industry?
As far as I am concerned, some of the most critical job skills in today’s job market are in the below areas
Machine Learning. …
Mobile Development. …
SEO/SEM Marketing. …
Data Visualization. …
Data Engineering. …
UI/UX Design. …
Network and Information Security (Cybersecurity) …
Cloud Computing/AWS.
What are some important trends in your industry and how is it affecting India?
For several years, India’s IT industry has contributed over 7 per cent to the country’s GDP and is expected to contribute 10 per cent of India’s GDP by 2025.
Some of the major developments in the Indian IT and ITeS sector are as follows:
Nasscom has launched an online platform which is aimed at up-skilling over 2 million technology professionals and at skilling another 2 million potential employees and students.
Revenue growth in the BFSI vertical stood at 6.80 per cent y-o-y between July-September 2018.
As of March 2018, there were over 1,140 GICs operating out of India.
PE investments in the sector stood at US$ 2,400 million in Q4 2018.
Venture Capital (VC) investments in the IT & ITeS sector stood at US$ 53.0 million during Q4 2018.
All these trends are important portents for India’s future growth and progress.
Government Initiatives:
The government has identified Information Technology as one of 12 champion service sectors for which an action plan is being developed. Also, the government has set up a Rs 5,000 crore (US$ 745.82 million) fund for realising the potential of these champion service sectors.
As a part of Union Budget 2018-19, NITI Aayog is going to set up a national level programme that will enable efforts in AI and will help in leveraging AI technology for development works in the country.
In the Interim Budget 2019-20, the Government of India announced plans to launch a national programme on AI* and setting up of a National AI* portal.
National Policy on Software Products-2019 was passed by the Union Cabinet to develop India as a software product nation.
Achievements;
About 200 Indian IT firms are present in around 80 countries.
Highest ever revenue was generated by Indian IT firms at US$ 181 billion in 2018-19.
Where do you see your industry in the next 5 years?
IT industry will continue to SURVIVE like any other industry.
It will not GROW at the rate of 20 to 40% as it happened few years back.
The growth will be mostly limited to below 12%.
Accordingly, the salaries will NOT be very high in future.
IT salaries will be at par with any other skill like manufacturing, retail or banking sector.
Some stabilisation in salaries and negative growth is expected over the next 5 years..
The increments will be less than 8%. Whenever you change jobs, your salary difference is unlikely to be more than 12% or so..
What is your take on the youth of today and why do you think internship is necessary?
An Internship provides real life experience and exposure.
When you intern, you:
- To learn more about yourself
- Get connected and develop your professional network
- Transition into a full-time position
What advice would you give to someone who’s just starting out?
Do your work or business in a very professional manner. Provide quality work.
Create trustworthy communication channels with everyone you work with.
Vivek Gohel, 9, January, 2020.
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