 My name is Michael, and welcome to the first-ever Judith Deff SG social. So, yeah, so I want to tell you a bit more about Judith Deff. Judith Deff SG is actually a chapter of JudithDeff.io, which is an initiative started in Australia. So, LJ and Luke, both work at a company called Zero, and they felt that it needed a support group for Judith Deff developers. So, they started a group there in Melbourne, and slowly it spread to different parts of Australia. So, I got in contact with them through my friend Stephen Cooper and Elisha, and basically we were like, hey, we should also start something similar in Singapore. So, I kind of like posted on my Facebook, hey, you know, would you like to help out? And anyone wants to do something like this? And apparently, there are a lot of people who are interested in this. So, just quick show of hands. People here who have gone through like a coding school or coding boot camp, right? Awesome. And you're like in your first or second year working professionally as a developer. Awesome. And mid-career switches, couple of you? Awesome. Yeah, so, you know, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So, I'm reaching out to the right audience, I hope. So, yeah. So, just to show you on the screen here, there's a couple of people. It takes a team to get this going. So, I have a team that I kind of like put together. So, you even see them here tonight. Actually, I don't see any of them here tonight. So, I'm a bit... Well... You know... It's okay. You know, they're here in spirit. I can feel them. We have Chee-on, Max, Justin, Robert, who has Min-Nang, Joseph, who is on his way, I understand. Aloysius, Gail, Jun-Ci, from Topworks, Hui-Iran, and Jonathan Poon from Apollo IT. So, Jonathan is not feeling well today. That's why he's not here. Justin is a little tied up with work. They're all busy people as well. So, I can't blame him. Which is why we have a video right now. So, we have volunteers or engineers or SG, King Meng and Zion recording this event for tonight. Yeah. So, follow us on Twitter, junerdef.sg. And... Of course, the food, which is not here yet, but you have sushi, right, and beer. So, yeah, I came from a little thing that I started called Engineers or SG. So, yeah. So, enjoy. The pizza is on its way, I promise. They'll reach eventually. So, don't go home without eating at least one slice of pizza, okay? Deal? Deal. Okay. So, we have housekeeping. So, you can follow us on Twitter. We have our website, junerdef.sg. So, you can go there and find out all about us and all the ways that can contact us. We have also a Facebook group. We also have a Meetup group as well. If you want to join us to chat with the members here, I advise you to join us on Slack. We have a Slack channel on Kobi.js. Kobi.js is a local social chat created by Qion and a bunch of people. And basically, it's kind of like a gathering place of geeks and people who can hang out and chill out. So, join us on Slack and all these other channels. We have supposedly a code of conduct which I will try and bring up. I'll try and... Serious stuff, guys. Ah, jeez. I'm going to try and bring this up. Be good to each other. Everyone is welcome. Leave a gap for others to join you. Later on, when we have more talks, at least you will leave a gap for someone to join you. No ragging out. What does that mean? No idea. Anyway, if you see something, say something. Come talk to us. Talk to me. If you have any problems, if anyone around here makes you feel uncomfortable, come talk to me, okay? And we'll try and help you out. Anyway, so just be nice. Be kind, right? Be excellent to each other. Be excellent and awesome to each other, right? All right, cool. So yeah, so today I'll... So as I'm saying, why did I start Junior Deaf SG? The target audience are basically working professionals, people like you, who are already working in the IT position, and you're a junior developer. Well, somebody asked me, what is MI Junior Developer or something? So I've cut... My rule of thumb is, look at your name card. Because the name card is the word senior there. If it doesn't, chances are you're not. I know you have some funky name like web slinger or something. That might count. But anyway, yeah, so you are the people they want to reach out to. The goals I've spoken about of this group is basically to provide a safe environment for junior deafs to learn from each other and to share about your learning journey because we're all on a journey together becoming better at what we do because we feel very passionately this is a career that we want to build and want to be professional and want to be good at this craft, right? So I want to save environment where we all can share knowledge and learn together as a community. I want to also find mentoring opportunities for developers who might not have such resources available to them at their workplace. So how many of you actually have in your workplace like a mentoring? Are you someone mentoring you? Or how have you actually benefited from having a mentor, right? Right? I personally benefited a lot from having a mentor in my life, right? Gabe is one of my mentors and he basically, you know having somebody who can help you have a change in mentality change in perspective on things that help you turn on the light, right? Which is pretty cool. So I want you all to have mentoring opportunities as well in a community like this. So this group is not just for junior deafs but also for others who are who want to help out want to help you out, right? So like Gabe is here and so many of my friends who are not junior developers but they are also here in our midst, right? Which is pretty cool. We also want to help each other level up into senior positions because we want to basically help you all level up together as a community if we all level up together we all get better together, right? And eventually I want you to take up senior positions and even tech leads tech lead position, right? Which is something I want as many of us to be able to do, right? Which is pretty which will be very cool, right? To be able to lead a team and to mentor others like pay it forward, right? So it's something you want to do, right? As a community we have to do that and I I really believe in that I want to help help you all do that Okay So this is pretty much my reason for building this thing and starting this thing and I hope you all can join me on this journey and doing this together, right? Cool? Cool! All right! So tonight we do have couple of speakers two or they wish they promised me there is going to be very short short talks and after the talks we will hopefully pizza will be here we can have pizza and we can mingle some more, right? and then just we help each other So the question is how is your learning journey so far? Awesome Dev So Right So we have two awesome Dev so we sharing with us their learning journey So tonight's speaker is Yueling Yueling, she is the director of Women Who Code and she will be sharing with us a little bit about her journey and next we also have Sherwin who is a software engineer at Sky Scanner Right? So they will both be sharing about their journey and how they have gone through all this and and yeah and with that I'll pass it on to Yueling Alright