Background
twimbit is a platform where the world discovers and shapes research. All credit goes to my tech team for truly making technology, the core of our business. You see, as a strategist, I operate in the business side of things, that really means that I translate the client and partners needs and go to our tech team to make compelling solutions on our platform. And this has been going really well, from the first I join a company 24 months ago, to what we are now I would say that the evolution, the pace of evolution itself, is immensely fast. But things are moving fast, things are going great. But I found myself wanting to know more, wanting to know how the platform operates. I just want to deep dive right into it and I ask myself, like who’s better to ask than my two other co workers. Aman & Passi, which is also the co-founder of the company. In fact, actually Passi was one that interviewed me, and I got the job, honestly 😊
But anyway, that aside, I want to know in this conversation, how the platform is being powered, and how it really, really works. So if you love research, has an obsession for technology. curious enough to learn, a company is enrolled to challenge the multibillion-dollar research industry, sit back, listen in to another episode of twimbit tales.
twimbit – bringing a tech-first approach to research
In this episode of twimbit tales, we talked about what is powering twimbit platform and how are we enroute to disrupt the billion dollar research industry with our technology.
Speakers
- Ashish Passi, COO, twimbit
- Aman Sharma, CTO, twimbit
- Jessie Tung, Strategist, twimbit
Jessie Tung
Welcome, guys. The team – least kept secret, I would say, least kept secret of the twimbit. Aman the CTO, Passi the COO, crafter of twimbit platform. Before I go on giving you guys great labels, great titles. How about, introduce yourself. Aman, you can go first?
Aman Sharma
Well, as you said, you know, I’m co-founder at twimbit. And also, Chief Technology Officer, and I don’t know, like you, I was interviewed or not, but maybe it’s Passi hidden style of interviewing and selecting talents. But I feel really great. At first, I didn’t understand what these old fellows are actually trying to do, research and all like, I don’t care. I want to create apps, make the world a fun place and all. And they were dragging me into making website and like, upload PDFs and all. So that’s the hidden story. And that’s how personally I started with. And then it ended up making a solution that would be loved by not just by me, but other millions of peoples as well.
Jessie Tung
You and I thought we were making websites. Passi, tell the world who you are.
Ashish Passi
Thanks, Jess and Aman. I think you’ve already introduced me, so I don’t need to go back to that. At least you guys knew that we were doing websites for few months, after we started. Both me and Manoj, we were lost what we are doing, you know, but one thing was very clear. Our motto was to bring the best of human ingenuity and technology together and use the power of that convergence to really make a long-lasting impact. And the thing which gives me a lot of satisfaction and pleasure is that we’ve been able to stick to that core of bringing both these elements together, through the entire journey so far.
Jessie Tung
Yeah, I agree. I mean, like after so many months, I think we’ve been going from building a website to now really building a platform for research to disseminate, to publish, to even collaborate. I mean, technology has always been the core of our business. So for the people who are first listening it, people who are learning more about twimbit, could you first let me know like the tech-first research firm, what does this really mean to us?
Ashish Passi
Yeah, if I have to sum it up, I think it will be three points, which really define a tech-first approach. First is that technology itself has to be built in a way that is resilient. What does that mean that any changes in the external environment, whether it’s a change in customer needs, customer behavior, change in the environment, change in the internal environment around the workforce, anything. The technology has to be able to adapt to it. And that is one thing that Aman and the team has done so well, in making it, a very adaptive stack, and Aman can dig deeper into that. So having a resilient technology.
Secondly, technology has to be inclusive. That is something which we’ve been talking about from the very inception. Tech inclusivity is all about where people who are building that tech, and people who are using that tech, believe it is to improve their life, believe that it is something which resonates with their own vision, so that inclusivity has to be there throughout. And then thirdly, it’s about being service-oriented. Technology has to be built in a way where whether it’s your internal customer, your external customer – it makes it simple, it makes it easy, to really serve everyone in real-time.And that is the path that we are on. And if we are able to achieve these three principles of resilience, inclusive, and service-oriented technology, I think we would have killed it.
Jessie Tung
I love it. I really think that, this is the way to go. And, it’s something that we’ve been pitching to our partners, to our clients ,on the business side of things. But Aman, I want to hear from you, like in the technology part, how are we realising these three pillars, and how are we really driving technology?
Aman Sharma
So, well as continuing from the same words where Passi left, actually. My goal when I was, learning engineering, or computer science, or programming or coding, multitudes of things so far that I have touch-based on to, you know, make myself eligible to say that I can provide solutions. So when I was learning these things, I wasn’t like kind of learning them for the sake of getting a paper degree, or I could get a job or something, I was always learning. I had always a quest, that I have to solve some kind of problem. And then reverse-track, what engineering or what math, or what coding, is required to actually solve it. My learning journey has always been like this, and then grades and everything just followed along.
I think what we are doing in tech, it’s the same ancestral hierarchy that we have put on in our tech team as well. So we kind of always think what is the solution we want to achieve, rather thinking about the engineering or the technology aspect first. So it’s kind of the same, I’m bringing the same culture from my side, I don’t push the team to actually learn this thing. And then we’ll figure out what we will create out of it. It’s always the other way around, that we have to solve this challenge. And trust me, some of the solutions that we have found in twimbit are so Novell that there is no documentation for it. There is no example projects for it, they are completely built for the first time in such a combination. So it’s very important that the team and I understand it from a solution perspective first, and then back trace it to what engineering or technology is actually required. So along the way, we have discovered various tools that haven’t been applied to research paradigm ever. And they were used in other companies as well at different scales or different use cases, but it has never been happening in the research level at such a scale that we are actually using them.
And then another thing is that whatever solution whatever problems we are trying to solve, it’s evident that these problems don’t exist. They didn’t exist five years ago. So there were no technical solutions to it. So as we encounter them, we build some solutions from ground up from the way along and then the team is very supportive. They have a learning attitude Passi and other people, other leadership in the team always support this learning attitude. So there is always that hunger of quest of solving more and more problems. And then along the way learning something new, creating something new that can be used by other humankind as well.
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