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Title: The importance of teams

Date(s): 13th Feb

Description:

In the tech industry we are constantly having to work in teams. These teams may be a group of people you work with daily at the same company, but it also can be a fluid team consisting of clients, consultants and yourself. Working in these teams well is a important factor in our every day development - in fact most of us will be working in multiple teams all at the same time depending on the work you are doing at that very moment.

Jenny will be sharing tips and tricks from her experience on how to build teams, keep team stress levels down so that we can work with happy teams.

You may wish to provide links to your website, slides, past events, social media, etc.

Profile:

A short self-intro
Once a Web Developer, Jenny now works as a Engineering Manager at Human Made. When she started, she didn't do anything else for two weeks but organize a local conference. She is often found being an open source community evangelist, event organiser and sometimes a speaker.

Her days vary from solving issues on event sites, supporting event organisers, loudly cheering people on to contribute back to open source, and coming up with crazy ideas to help improve participation experiences in open source projects.

If you ever find her away from her laptop, she is usually binge watching F1 & anime, doing renovations or making a mess whilst cooking. You can find her around a messaging service making typos.

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page: URL where people can find out more about you online.
twitter.com/miss_jwo
linkedin.com/in/missjwo/
Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG ( If it is the growing enterprise-ready engineers talk )

Notes

This is the talk I'm giving to WordCamp Asia so will appreicate practising the talk to another audience ahead of time.

If there there is something else you would like me to speak about whilst i'm in town, I'm happy to oblige. You can find all my talks in my talk abstract Google Doc.

Title: Pro Tips for Builders on AWS

Date(s): Whenever's good for ya'll. Sometime in July perhaps?

Description:

This talk will feature a list of quick-hitting tips aimed at improving your day-to-day life building on AWS. I'll cover working effectively with the AWS CLI and other third-party CLIs; creating, editing, debugging, and deploying an AWS Lambda-powered serverless applications quickly and easily using the new AWS Toolkit which works with VS code and other IDEs; and introducing the concept of structured logging and how to perform powerful filtering and searches on your structured application logs with Amazon CloudWatch.

The talk also has some fun history lessons that have nothing to do with AWS, so even if you're not into the cloud, you might enjoy learning a bit about the history of CLIs, IDEs, and logging data.

Profile:

Hello! I'm Gabe and I work as a Developer Advocate at AWS, where I try to stay up-to-date on new technology and share what I'm learning with the world.

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page: You can find me on Twitter or LinkedIn at @gabehollombe

Title: The Ethical Developer

Date(s): March

Description: There are ethical considerations to everything, including being a developer. As you build the foundation of your developer journey, there are 3 broad categories you may consider - Diversity & Inclusion, Accessibility and Sustainability. This lightning talk will share an example from each and easy resources to start as an ethical developer.

You may wish to provide links to your website, slides, past events, social media, etc.

Profile:

Supporting communities in Asia Pacific as part of Developer Relations at Microsoft

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page: https://twitter.com/truckerfling

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: Exploring Seasonal Insights from Singapore Weather Station Data

Date(s): 14 January 2020

Description:
Most of the world experience the four seasons, but how many seasons does a tropical country like Singapore have? We can get such insights from publicly-available weather data; however, we need to write scripts to make API requests for retrieving the data needed for analysis.

In this talk, I will be sharing about my approach in scraping Singapore weather station data from Data.gov.sg APIs for a user-defined time period. With the extracted data, I will also be using a data-driven approach to investigate the weather trends and seasons over the past few years, and explore how these insights could help us in predicting future weather trends.

https://github.com/hweecat/api_scraping_nea_datasets

Profile:
Ong Chin Hwee is a data engineer, aspiring polymath and Industry 4.0 enthusiast who happens to be interested in things that fly (and stuff that burn to keep things flying). One of Chin Hwee's latest projects involves contributing to the documentation for pandas, an open-source Python library that is immensely useful for anything related to data.

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page:
https://twitter.com/ongchinhwee
https://linkedin.com/in/ongchinhwee

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: KopiRun - from idea to app launch

Date(s): September 2020

Description:
Thinking of building your first mobile app? Well, now you can do it using the same language that powers the web!

Come along to this talk to find out about the creation of KopiRun, an app that helps you find people nearby who could help do coffee runs for you (think carpooling but for food/groceries). We'll be talking about important things to think about before you launch your app, the tech stack that went behind KopiRun, and some key decisions and takeaways out of our journey from the first line of code to putting the app on the app store.

Profile:

Speakers: Alyssa Ong and Zane Chua

Alyssa's Profile:
Alyssa is a (newly turned) Technical Program Manager who also very much enjoys coding. Alyssa has a diverse portfolio of skills ranging from mobile and web UI design to cloud architecture design, app dev and DevOps. During her free time, she works on KopiRun, plays Dota and drinks lots of bubble tea.

Zane's Profile:
Zane primarily focused on web application projects as a full-stack developer before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Computer Science. Zane has experience in launching his own start-up and SaaS product which lead to a side interest in open-source code. He maintains a few open-source products/projects in his free time.

Over the past few years, he has polished his skills over multiple projects handling both front end and backend development with a recent focus in mobile app development and developer operations.

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page:
https://twitter.com/alyssaong1337
https://github.com/alyssaong1

https://twitter.com/zanejchua
https://github.com/zanechua
https://linkedin.com/in/zanejchua/

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: A Noob's Guide to TensorFlow: Part 1

Date(s): 13 March, 14 April, ...
(Hopefully, we can make this into a monthly series on the basic, intermediate, and advanced applications of TensorFlow 🤗🤔)

Description:
A crash course to basic Machine Learning with TensorFlow. Here's an overview of the high-level features you can make use of for side-projects and products.

I'll be covering the basics of TensorFlow, especially the tf.keras module that houses the different components needed to build a neural network from scratch. I'll also talk about preparing your data, training and testing models, as well as visualising performance metrics.

Let's get started with one of the fastest-growing ML libraries in the world together!

Profile:
Yo! I'm Rish, a Machine Learning Research Student at A*STAR 🤖. I've been in the ML space for over 4 years, heading really cool AI projects at startups and research institutions in areas like finance, insurance, customer feedback management, warehouse operations, and bioinformatics. I love to have interesting conversations with people about tech and the future!

Catch me procrastinating here:
Twitter • LinkedIn • GitHub • Medium • Personal Website

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: Lessons from coding a old-new app: Slack for Win 3.1

Date(s): 14 Jan 2020

Description:

I built a Win 3.1 app during a company hackathon.

Without the benefit of modern libraries and languages, I had to read up and take care of many low level details, socket programming, HTTP, JSON parsing, UI design in code all under tight memory constraints. Nevertheless, it was a terrific lesson in understanding how things work under the hood.

I'll share my learnings and process for how an old-new app can be created with the aid of modern tools and hindsight of old technologies. And perhaps what lessons can it offer us today.

http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/
https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack

It was Number 1 on Hacker news for a few hours! :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831951

Profile:
I work as an IoT Engineer as SP Digital in the day. Outside of work, I like to repair things and fly private planes for fun. Occasionally, I dabble with retrocomputing stuff.

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page:
https://www.facebook.com/yeokhengmeng
https://github.com/yeokm1/
https://twitter.com/yeokm1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yeokhengmeng/

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: Mozilla's Project Things - A Secure and Private Smart Home IoT Gateway

Date(s): 13 March 2020

Description: Mozilla's Project things is a software distribution for smart home gateways focused on privacy, security and interoperability. This session also covers how to build your own IoT device using the Web Thing API and how developers can contribute to Mozilla's mission.

check out to know more about https://iot.mozilla.org/

Profile: Professionally I am an IoT Architect, but passionately I am a Mozilla Representative and an active IEEE member in SG contributing to various FOSS projects and volunteering several tech events.

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/apvenkat/
https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/apvenkat/

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: My journey joining Stripe as a new grad engineer

Date(s): 13 Feb 2020

Description:
I joined Stripe six months ago as a new grad engineer here in Singapore. This is my first role as a full-time engineer in a rapidly growing tech company, with new programming languages, new financial domain knowledge and new patterns, culture and otherwise. It has been a challenging but very rewarding and interesting process that I would like to share!

Profile:

A short self-intro
I work as a software engineer building global payments infrastructure at Stripe. I enjoy working on challenges of scale and helping to build a better payments product for our many users. During my free time, I enjoy running and watching British panel shows like QI and Would I Lie to You!

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page: URL where people can find out more about you online.
www.github.com/darrenwee
www.linkedin.com/in/darrenweezy

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: Building Web3 - introduction to blockchain and smart contracts

Date(s): 13 March 2020

Description:

Blockchain is a topic of great interest, and it has the potential to radically change the economy that we know of today. At the core is the idea is decentralised application - which consists of smart contracts that could connect any developers to a network of global liquidity through public blockchain network. Blockchain and smart contract could potentially be more efficient in bringing together multiple parties to work together, automating process flow and bringing efficiency through automated pieces of pre-agreed logic called smart contract.

Agenda:

• What is blockchain?
• What are decentralised apps and how they are different from other apps
• Getting started with smart contract programming and dApp development

Profile:

Edison is a software engineer who specialises in blockchains, web application and data. He has spent the last three years on blockchain development and has experience working on Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric and Zilliqa blockchain. In his past roles, he has built a security tokenisation technology, custody software and token exchange.

Edison is currently the Head of Engineering at Aqilliz - a Singapore-based marketing technology company which aims to make marketing more efficient and transparent. Before joining Aqilliz, Edison is the Application Engineering Lead and the first application engineer at Zilliqa, a Singapore-based high-throughput and secure public blockchain platform. Zilliqa is the first to implement sharding, a technology that improves the transactional capacity of a public blockchain network and is famous for the creation of a new smart contract programming language called Scilla.

Edison holds an M.Sc from Carnegie Mellon University and is an avid guitarist and amateur cook.

https://twitter.com/EdisonLimjh
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edisonljh/
https://github.com/edisonljh

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: My Journey Into Tech

Date(s): 14 Jan 2020

Description:
I’ll share my personal journey into tech - the motivations, considerations and challenges along the way.

Profile:
I work as a software engineer in Sephora SEA. During my free time, i enjoy swimming and shopping :)

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page:
https://www.facebook.com/peh.yuhan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pehyuhan

Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG

Title: Coding on your browser with Gitpod

Date(s): September

Description:
Setting up a dev environment is a significant barrier to entry to anyone wishing to study or contribute to any codebase. This talk introduces Gitpod, a browser-based, cloud-hosted development environment that allows would-be developers to be productive on any codebase hosted on GitHub or GitLab (with Bitbucket support coming soon), while avoiding most of the hassle that comes with setting it up to run on a local machine

Profile:
You know who I am =)

Title: Lighthouse techniques for debugging web applications on chrome

Date(s): 14 January 2020

Description: TBC

You may wish to provide links to your website, slides, past events, social media, etc.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lLDKgEUKwzLV0U-3eszm5i-DIbTOLpTfCmjiI8BGxDA/edit?usp=sharing (TBC)

Profile:

A short self-intro: Web Frontend Developer doing freelance work. Had experience with C#, javascript, html, css and a bit of java in work stints at Tata Consultancy Services, Bookmyshow and Kee Link. Currently looking for a frontend developer role.

LinkedIn/Twitter/GitHub/Social media page:

1. linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-yang-14786137/
2. github: https://github.com/Calebyang93
   Requirements (check any that apply):

• I do not wish to have my talk recorded for Engineers.SG