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A Career in Open Source
Marshal Yung, Founder, Gaia Technologies APU Career Day
Hello• Graduated University of
Greenwich 1999, Software Engineering
• From a coder to a Software Architect. ~17 years
• Founder, Gaia Technologies
• Internet Technology Professional Advisory, TARUC
• Speaker at technology conferences
Show of HandsPHP, Python, Ruby, etc? Contributing to open source?
Wants to work in an open source environment?
Built on Open SourceFacebook, Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube,
LinkedIn, Pinterest
Built on Open Source
• Facebook. PHP, C++, HBase
• Twitter. Ruby on Rails, Scala, MySQL
• Google Web Search. Python, C, C++
• Wikipedia. Perl, PHP, MySQL, Lucene
• YouTube. Python, MySQL, Google BigTable
• LinkedIn. Java
• Pinterest. Python (Django), MySQL, Nginx, MongoDB
From the Neighbourhood
• GrabTaxi. Python, Java, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Carousell. Python, PostgreSQL
• iMoney. PHP, MongoDB, AngularJS, NodeJS, Nginx
• Piktochart. PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL
Market InsightsOpportunity probabilities?
Monster.com.my 117 new jobs in the last 60 days
Google Search on “open source job vacancies malaysia” 43.4 Million results
JobStreet.com.my on “open source developer”
25 new jobs in the last 14 days
Jobs DB Malaysia on “open source developer”
50 new jobs in the last 30 days
Types of JobsSoftware Engineers, Software Developers, UI/UX Developers, Software
QA, Administrators, Technical Writers (basically, the usual suspects)
How’s the Pay?Actually, that depends on who you join and how good
you are
Get InvolveJoin a project or start a new project
Open Source ProjectsMozilla Project, Apache Software Foundation, Google Developers,
Github, Linux, PHP, Drupal, AngularJS, and many, many more
Start a New ProjectChoose a Repository, Publish & Share Your Code, Start a
Following, That’s it!
A Career in Open Source @ APU Career Day Marshal Yung, Founder, Gaia Technologies Sdn Bhd We build Sensible & Humane Apps Twitter: @marshalyung Email: marshal.yung@gaian.io
Thank You
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