Indian Software Professionals – Leading the World in Software Development By Basab Banerjee
In 2018, India, with about 6 million software professionals , became the number one country in the world in terms of the number of software developers, overtaking the United States in sheer numbers. It is no surprise then that most of the Fortune 500 companies have their backend software companies in India and it is from here that cutting-edge technologies for instrument design, machining, AI, Fintech, IOT and other top end software is produced. How has India created this large and efficient software developer’s repository? The answer lies in two complimentary aspects. First, Indians have a penchant for learning mathematics in school. Majority of the 35 million students whograduate from high school after learning mathematics invariably land up in the 4300+ colleges which teach undergraduate level IT programs.Secondly, in their final years in Colleges, these students work as Coders and Programmers in live projects and are thus industry ready by the time they graduate. Given the e