Wantedly Singapore presents “I NEED A < BR / >!” meetup event #1, a space where tech enthusiasts from all walks of life gather to chill out, network & forge new connections. Because sometimes, we all just need a break from our lives! (pun intended)

Our first casual session will introduce tech leaders representing different industries and share what it takes to work within an engineering team. Expect to hear:

• Insights on staying relevant in the ever-changing programming ecosystem
• Building engineering teams while optimising collaboration for maximum efficiency
• Getting first-hand advice from tech leaders on valuable critical skills for today and the future

Your FREE ticket covers:

• Exclusive networking with Industry Leaders with expertise in technologies
• First look into top picks of developer job opportunities on Wantedly
• Pizza and beer party - Because who would say no to yummy food, right?
• Wantedly Exclusive swag for all (think awesome customised stickers/decals and pens just for you!)
• Exciting career design games and stationery giveaway from My Working Title that will help you to make your best career decisions
• Lucky draw giveaway (More details will be announced shortly so stay tuned!)

*For the first 15 who arrive early to our event, you will get a Wantedly exclusive T-shirt!

Limited seats available, so RSVP and grab your ticket now!

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Agenda

6:00PM Arrivals

6:20PM Dinner + Games

7:00PM Welcome + Sharing

7:15PM Guest Speaker: Yuki Iwanaga, Software Engineer at Wantedly, Inc

7:30PM Guest Panel

8.15PM Q&A

8.30PM Networking

9.30PM End

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Guest speaker:

Yuki Iwanaga, Software Engineer at Wantedly, Inc

Known as the "genius" in Wantedly Engineering team, Yuki is currently leading a product development of International team. Full-stack engineer experienced in iOS, frontend, backend in Golang/Ruby, and infrastructure with Docker/Kubernetes. A lover of all things beauty from typography to Vim's philosophy. Started programming and design at 12.

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Guest panelists:

Gabriel Lim, Co-founder at Saleswhale

Gabriel is a co-founder and CEO of Y-combinator backed startup, Saleswhale. Previously, he co-founded a boutique software development agency, where he helped other startups and larger companies create platforms and develop projects (think Zalora, Samsung, etc).

Elvin Li, Head of Product at Botbot.AI

Formerly known as "The Social Games Monetization" guy. Elvin co-founded several startups that provides innovative solutions to businesses and consumers. He has 9 years of experience in data mining and user behavioural analysis across industries including gaming, and e-commerce. He is an expert in architecting and designing solutions to dig relevant insights based on data, web, mobile and social technologies.

Alyssa Quek, Senior Software Engineer

A full-stack data-focused software engineer and computer vision dabbler, Alyssa uses a mix of Python and Spark with Scala for data processing and finding anomalies, Golang for concurrency and Javascript for custom visualisations of server data.

Ajey Gore, Group CTO, Go-Jek

With 18 years of experience in building core technology strategy across diverse domains, Ajey is helping GoJek deliver a transport, logistics, lifestyle and payments platform – offering 18 products, owned and operated by GoJek. Ajey’s interests include machine learning, networking and scaling products. Ajey founded CodeIgnition, which was acquired by GoJek, before that Ajey served ThoughtWorks as Head of Technology. Ajey is active influencer in technology community, organises not-for-profit conferences such as RubyConf, GopherCon and DevOpsDays through his not for profit organisation.

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Organiser: Wantedly

Wantedly is a social networking and recruitment platform which connects companies and talents who share the same values and mission.

Community Partner: My Working Title

My Working Title is a career design company and movement that empowers people to actively design their careers.

Venue Sponsor: Spacemob

Spacemob is a physical and digital environment built to support the new eco-system of the global workforce - entrepreneurs, freelancers, SMEs & MNCs.