Presence of Aditya Birla Group in my life
Aditya Birla group has a Global presence in the following industries : Aluminum rolling, viscose staple fibre, carbon black, telecom, cement, insulators. In India, they are the leaders in Fashion, Mobile Telephony, Cement and Life Insurance.
Aditya Birla Group has a wide presence globally and for me with the limited exposure I have had till now, I saw its presence in the fashion world. With brands like Van Heusen, Ralph Lauren, Louis Philippe, Allen Solly, Forever 21, Pantaloons among others, it is nearly possible to find a mall without the presence of Aditya Birla Group brand.
Being a value shopper I have been a big fan of Van Heusen for the kind of quality they have. Earlier I used to see the products to be a bit expensive but after using them and knowing the quality and comfort they have its worth every penny.
Also, apart from the quality and comfort sometimes what I look for is to buy something really in style for which I don’t have to spend too much. For all such needs the one stop store me has always been Pantaloons. Pantaloons has a wide range of products, be it ethnic, casuals, formals you can find all kinds of products under one roof.
How I overcame challenge in my life
Problem : It was my first job after my graduation and I had newly joined my project team, who used develop APIs and manage an API Platform. One of the tasks of the team was to send outage notifications to the users of the API, which was very crucial to be sent on time to minimize the business impact on other applications.
The user list of the APIs was dynamic and used to change daily according to new users joining the platform and old users leaving the platform. When new users join, they fill an application form which has their contact details.
The demand of APIs was increasing, and we had already developed 80 APIs, with the increased demand there were also increased outages and a lot of user communications had to be sent for each API.
The fetching of user list was a manual process, where we had to go to the application form of each user using the API and get contact details from there. This task was easier earlier as we had limited APIs and users but now the numbers of APIs and the number of users increased exponentially and for each outage notification it would take one person to manually go through each application form and get contact details of users which would take approx. 5-6 hours per API notification and if there were multiple APIs outages the time would increase linearly with the number of APIs.
Suggested Solution and Difficulty : I proposed the idea of trying to identify a way with which we can automate this entire process so that we will have more resources at hand to be actually working on the project rather than just sending the communications. The difficulty I faced was that my seniors told me that they had already explored this, and such automation was not possible and asked me not to waste any time on this.
Aftermath : I was not allowed to work on this automation during office hours, I spent hours after office researching and reading documentation of the platform on my own and ultimately cracked the way to get the list of users using a script.
Now, even after me leaving the organization, people still use that script to get user list which reduced the monotonous manual work which used to take hours to just a matter of seconds.
I also received an Award from my organization for this Automation.
