Ganesh Srinivasan speaks with Ekanth Sethuramalingam, a software engineer and technical leader at Notion, about the challenges of building large scale systems while experiencing massive growth. Previously a software engineer at Uber, where he helped solve some of their biggest challenges in the data space, Ekanth also shares what drew him to join Notion and his thoughts on building new primitives.

 

[00:01:18] Ekanth’s engineering background

[00:02:14] Switching from Uber to Notion

[00:03:39] Notion’s biggest challenge

[00:08:45] Applying generative AI

[00:12:04] Dream tool

[00:14:32] Rapid fire questions

 

Full transcript: https://vnrk.co/3qAAhV2

 

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