Posted by Baris Yesugey – Regional Lead, Google Builders Turkey and Central Asia
We not too long ago spoke with Ceren Tunay, a Google Developer Group Organizer in Edirne, Turkey. who notes, “whereas we had been organizing occasions, I seen individuals have an enormous ardour for tech. I requested myself, “what’s that factor in tech that makes individuals so impassioned? And after that, I began to higher perceive the tech business, due to the applications supplied by Google Developer Teams. Then I made a decision to be taught to code. After some time, now I do know that I’m the place I need to be, and realized I’ve labored in the direction of discovering my dream job.”Inform us about your self
I’m a cellular developer & group builder who goals to be a stressed learner. I’m strongly captivated with how innovation will help communities advance and develop. I interact in public talking on subjects like improvement, group, girls in tech, and motivation. I’m a co-founder & mentor for the Android Builders Group Turkey.
I function an organizer for the Google Developer Teams Edirne. I’m additionally a Google Girls Techmakers Ambassador – amongst all of those teams and the collaborations amongst them, we attain over 90 Google Developer Scholar Golf equipment chapters in Turkey and all through Central Asia. In that spirit, I personally imagine that extra colours make a greater rainbow within the tech group. My dream is to construct a future the place the shortage of variety is not a difficulty within the tech group.
What’s your job, and the way does it relate to the tech group?
My main is chemical engineering, and I’m working as a group supervisor at a recreation improvement firm referred to as Recreation Manufacturing unit. My community-facing position permits me to be an individual who motivates and helps individuals to navigate the educational course of on their journey to changing into a developer. I really feel in a position to create inspiration as a result of I’ve been by what others really feel and expertise when studying to code, so I can simply empathize with them.
How did you get your begin on this subject?
In learning the sector of chemical engineering, I got here throughout the Google Developer Teams (GDG) and I participated within the organizing group to assist and assist the group. Whereas we had been organizing occasions, I seen individuals have an enormous ardour for tech. I requested myself, “what’s that factor in tech that makes individuals so impassioned?”
And after that, I began to higher perceive the tech business, due to the applications supplied by GDG. Then I made a decision to be taught to code. After some time, now I do know that I’m the place I need to be, and I’ve labored in the direction of discovering my dream job.
Are you able to inform me about the way you grew to become fascinated by expertise?
I obtained launched to expertise on this approach by GDG. Once I first participated in the neighborhood, I used to be really solely planning to enhance my group and mission administration expertise. However I used to be fortunate that I had the possibility to observe individuals and see what they’re doing in tech and within the broader business. Once I noticed individuals’s ardour and curiosity on this area, I began to additionally have an interest. However the second that I needed to be taught to code is after I realized how individuals get to benefit from the time when they’re coding and enhance themselves altogether.
What is exclusive about your GDG group or builders in Turkey?
We’re a group that continues to be shut, supportive, and delicate to one another’s wants. It’s simple to achieve somebody on the opposite facet of Turkey in the neighborhood. GDG as a program helps this trigger as a result of when individuals begin to be taught to code however have an issue, they will simply be demoralized, which could cause them to give up studying and by no means attempt once more. However with the GDG group, they assist one another and assist to unravel issues. In the event that they realized that they don’t just like the language they’re studying, it’s so simple to change to a different tech. They turn into braver to be taught and obtain with the GDG program.
With a aim of making an area for studying new developer instruments, we arrange workshops, trainings, and icebreakers for our group, to strengthen its capability to attach individuals round technical ideas. We maintain periods on technical instruments, group administration, mission administration, private aim setting, and plenty of extra subjects. The occasions we host present the facility of group. The necessary factor for me is that the applications and content material stay open-minded, equal, and various.
What’s a current spotlight out of your group work?
We hosted an Android DevFest and obtained fantastic suggestions from our contributors. We needed to do one thing and get collectively when occasions had been beginning to happen bodily once more. We organized an in-person occasion with professional audio system and numerous content material.
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These audio system accompanied us with fantastic displays all through the occasion. We had enjoyable conversations on many subjects, from the Jetpack library and Compose to utility structure. We had an important day as individuals united by our ardour for Android, having enjoyable, consuming lots of espresso, and bringing one another lots of new good points.
What’s the second the place you’re feeling like the whole lot modified for you otherwise you “had a breakthrough” as a developer and mentor?
Once I began to be taught Android, I fell in love with the expertise. Once I began to really feel like I knew it effectively sufficient, I, together with my teammate, organized an Android Bootcamp. This took two and a half months. On the finish of this Bootcamp, I participated in an “I’m Exceptional” workshop, which is an initiative empowering girls and different underrepresented teams to have a good time their achievements within the office and past.
What’s an instance of group work you’re proud to share?
On the “I’m Exceptional” workshop we hosted, earlier than the workshop began, one man who was about 40 years previous got here as much as me and thanked me for our group initiatives. At first, I didn’t perceive what he was seeking to ask me about, however then as he shared his story of impression, which made me proud.
He stated that he was a instructor earlier than our bootcamp after which modified jobs by attending our Android Bootcamp and different applications we led. Throughout that point, he began to be taught Android with us and commenced to finish all courses. Now, quick ahead, and he’s working as an precise Android developer! That represents the second that I acknowledged that my life modified. It’s because that was the second I noticed I used to be not solely bettering myself, however I used to be additionally rising and operating with the group.
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What are some technical sources you will have discovered probably the most useful in your skilled improvement?
What are your plans for the long run, in your profession as a GDG organizer?
I’m nonetheless exploring, career-wise, however I undoubtedly plan to stay within the tech business and purpose to have connections with individuals. Now, I’m working as a group supervisor, together with my teammate Serkan Alc, who is a superb group employee and supporter. We’re constructing a group by GDG. So we are able to say for each domains of my work and group, probably the most thrilling tasks are creating Bootcamps and webinars that assist and encourage individuals to take a step into the sector of tech.
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