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