Overview
Are you a Junior Developer or new to the technology industry? Do you sometimes feel anxious about work or question your own abilities? Are you excited to be starting your career and want to celebrate your accomplishments with others? You are not alone!
At Junior Developer Singapore, we aim to provide a platform where junior developers can network and gain mentorship from senior developers to eventually become tech leads themselves. Do join us for our monthly meetup session where we have established speakers coming down to share their insights and experiences.
Date:14 March 2019, Thursday
Time:7:00pm 9:30pm
Venue:BASH, Level 3, Block 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore 139955
Speakers:
- Max Ong Zong Bao, Full Stack Developer, Microsec
- Michael Li, CTO, JobTech
- Poh Wan Ting, Director, Data Science in Alliance SE Insurance Management Asia Pacific
- Nidhi Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, Portcast
Programme Details:
7:00pm 7:30pm: Registration
7:30pm 7:45pm: Building a Developer blog with JAM Stack by Max, Ong Zong Bao
7:45pm 8:00pm: Elements of a Technical Interview by Michael Li
8:00pm 8:15pm: Data Science in Insurance by Poh Wan Ting
8:15pm 8:30pm: Creating Technology that Fits the Customer's Needsby Nidhi Gupta
8:30pm - 9:30pm: Q&A and Networking
Speakers' Profiles:
Max Ong Zong Bao, Full Stack Developer, Microsec
Max is a life enhancer for tech & entrepreneurship, and he seeks to blend both to build innovative products or services for the world that solves hard problems.
He develops websiteAPIs for a living in a local deep tech startup called MicroSecwhich builds end-to-end security software for IoT devices.
He has been involved with the various developer and startup communities since his university days in SIT/University of Glasgow like Python User Group Singapore (PUGS), EDGE (Empower, Develop and Groom Entrepreneurs) Community, Startup-O, Code in Community and recently Junior Developers Singapore.
Michael Li, CTO, JobTech
Michael Li is currently the CTO of JobTech where he focuses on Recommendation Engines.
Previously, he was the CTO at Red Dot Robotics as well as the Analytics Consultant at SenseInfosys. His other experiences include being a Software Engineer and Technology Expert at the I2R Data Analytics Department and managing Biomedical and Genomic Data at NUS in School of Public Health, before joining NUHS and I2R to engineer Medical Ontology.
In his studies at the University of Melbourne, he worked in a chemistry laboratory sampling water for pollution for his Biomedical Engineering Degree. He is also experienced in the Biomedical Diagnostics Lab doing Bacterial Load Testing and being a Laboratory Technician.
Born and raised in Singapore, Michael is a MarisStella Alumni and served his Singapore National Service as a Guardsman.
Poh Wan Ting, Director, Data Science in Alliance SE Insurance Management Asia Pacific
Poh Wan Ting is a Data geek and AI enthusiast with experience spanning MedTech, AdTech and InsurTech. She is currently leading and developing a team of data scientists in innovating data science solutions focused on delivering competitive advantages, superior insights andoperating efficiencies that translate to business impact.
A strong believer in technology being able to drive the world to become a better place, Wan Ting recognizes the importance of diversity in this digital revolution and strives towards the day where everyone feels empowered in STEM.
Nidhi Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, Portcast
Nidhi Gupta is an experienced strategy and logistics professional. She has a decade of leadership and C-level consulting experience in Asia-Pacific with the Deutsche Post DHL group.
She has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore and a Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering.
Nidhi is passionate about digitisation and innovation in the supply chain and logistics industry. She is currently the co-founder of Portcast, a logistics technology start-up in Singapore which uses machine learning and AI to provide predictive analytics for logistics companies.
