31st Aug '19
Hello World!
Devenings Lahore Chapter Launch
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About the Event
Whether YOU code for a living, code for fun or code to make the world a better place, we are here with an initiative that puts YOU at the center of the world you work hard to build. Devenings is THE community for developers who just want to code, build and challenge their skills, all while helping each other.
After conducting 7 successful evens in Islamabad, Devenings is now coming to you in Lahore with an exciting launch event including tech talks, panel discussion and lots of swag including $200 worth of jetbrains license for two lucky winners and free annual hosting for first 50 sign ups!
Speaker Lineup
Ali Ayub Khan
Pakistan's first GitHub Campus Expert
Choosing a career in Computer Science
Abbas Siddiqi
Full Stack Developer @ BidSettle (Canada)
Backend Developer: Noob to Ninja
Naveed Tariq
Senior Backend Engineer @ KeepTruckin
Build to scale
Khurram Shehzad
Chief Executive @ eHostPK Pvt Ltd
A Developer Journey
Panel Discussion
What key skills/qualities employers expect from young devs?
Farrukh M. Khan
Head of Recruiting @ KeepTruckin
Asma Khalid
Data Scientist at ITU and Pakistan's first Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Muneeb Ali
Founder and CEO @ 1Byte
Saima Tariq
Community Lead @ Facebook DevC
Detailed Schedule
Hello World!
Jawad Sadiq - Founder @ Devenings
Choosing a career in Computer Science
Ali Ayub Khan - Pakistan's first GitHub Campus Expert
Ali is a recent Computer Science graduate from (SEECS), NUST, Islamabad. Currently working as a Community Moderator at GDG Cloud Islamabad. He has co-founded GrinPhox and EdSol. He was Google Summer of Code Intern at FOSSASIA for 2017, a program hosted and funded by Google Open source. Mentored students in Google Code-in and Google Summer of Code in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Also headed student chapter of an international society named ACM(Association for Computing Machinery) as a president. Worked as a software developer intern at Neuropsychology lab, University of Oldenburg, Germany. He has been a Summer Exchange volunteer at Beijing in 2016 and has received NUST Excellence Award.
He is Pakistan’s first GitHub Campus Expert.
What key skills/qualities employers expect from young devs?
Farrukh M. Khan, Asma Khalid, Muneeb Ali and Saima Tariq
Farrukh M. Khan – Head of Recruitment at KeepTruckin Asma Khalid – Pakistan’s first Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Muneeb Ali – Founder & CEO at OneByte Saima Tariq – Community Lead at Developer Circles from Facebook
Backend Developer: Noob to Ninja
Abbas Siddiqi - Full Stack Developer @ BidSettle (Canada)
Abbas Siddiqi is a full-stack web developer having more than 5 years of development experience in LAMP stack and NodeJS. He has built web applications of various scales using backend frameworks Laravel, CakePHP & ExpressJS. He is currently working on Lumen, Angular, Docker & Kubernetes to build amazing web applications at BidSettle, Inc.
Build to scale
Naveed Tariq - Senior Backend Engineer @ KeepTruckin
Naveed Tariq is a Backend Engineer having more than 11 years of development experience in building several applications to scale using Rails, NodeJS, JavaScript and React. He is currently working as Senior Backend Engineer @ KeepTruckin
A Developer Journey
Khurram Shehzad - Chief Executive @ eHostPK Pvt Ltd
Khurram is the CEO of eHostPK ( PVT ) Limited; a company delivering affordable hosting solutions provisioned from a world-class global infrastructure.
Closing Remarks
Refreshments and Networking
Developers supporting developers
Have questions, a big problem, or advice. Our speakers and event hosts are always
ready to assist and help the community thrive.
In Collaboration with
GDG Islamabad, a part of Google Developers Group, aims to create meaningful engagements via community building initiatives. A GDG meetup event includes talks on a wide range of technical topics where you can learn new skills through hands-on workshops. The GDG community prides itself on being an inclusive environment where everyone and anyone interested in tech – from beginner developers to experienced professionals – all are welcome to join.
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