...and we're back! Are you ready to join us for our THIRD edition of Pizza+Chill {Code}?
This time, we're focusing on blockchain, open source, data science, and everything in between! Always been curious about the 'ins and outs' of what it takes to be part of these industries? Learn straight from the experts at this meet-up!
Date/Time: 22 June 2018, Friday, 19:00-21:30
Venue: WeWork Beach Centre, Level 2
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Sharing Topics:
How did I get a job in a blockchain company as a self taught developer? - Wing Puah
How to overcome challenges as an infrastructure engineer? - Naeema Gulam
Text to speech - Pasindu de Silva
Fun machine learning applications on text mining and product recommendation - Sylvain Truong
Hiring and building teams in data science - Nikolay Novozhilov
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-Wing Puah, Project Manager, Katalyst
Wing first started blogging on Wordpress to document her travel and make sense of life at 2010. Throughout the years, her work mainly revolved being an educator and fitness instructor. It isn’t until 2017 that she decides to dedicate her time in order to get a role in web development. Back then, she splits her time between freelancing, running a startup and picking up web development. The hard work pays off- In 2018, she has started working in a blockchain company as a project manager and frontend web developer. Come hear her journey on how she gets into a full-time job in a blockchain company as a self-taught developer.
-Naeema Gulam, Infrastructure Engineer, GovTech
Naeema is an Infrastructure Engineer at GovTech Singapore. She is currently part of a team who manages projects pertaining to end user computing, staff productivity tools and mobility solutions to the whole of government. Prior to this, she was managing multiple projects to deploy end user technology to users across Asia in the financial industry. She has a passion for Business Continuity and IT Security which drives her to look out for risk in these areas in her current role.
-Pasindu de Silva, Software Engineer & PHP Contributor
Pasindu works on building open source text to speech systems for low resource languages by day and does various Community projects by night.
-Sylvain Truong, Data Scientist, Sephora Digital
Sylvain joined Sephora Digital as a Data Scientist to build smart e-commerce products. His main interests lie in recommendation engines, marketing attribution modelling, cloud architectures and tensorflow. Previous to that, Sylvain earned his MSc. degrees from ENS Paris Saclay and Mines ParisTech, with a final dissertation on text-to-speech synthesis.
-Nikolay Novozhilov, Head of Digital Product, NTUC Link
From Product Manager at Bubbly, to Chief Data Scientist at Wego and now the Head of Digital Products at NTUC Link, Nikolay believes in building great products with Big Data and Machine Learning. He has 5+ years of experience in IT startups and e-commerce, leading teams of data scientists and developers, working with multiple stakeholders on tech and business side. His specialities include Product management, Agile development, Google BigQuery, A/B testing, Big Data, Data Science, machine learning with Python, statistical inference.
*Only ticket holders can access this event. The organiser exercises the right to refuse entry to any ticket holder(s) at its own discretion.