A look into career opportunities and the job market with skills in open source platforms. Content was delivered to a group of graduating students from APIIT University
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Career in Open Source - APIIT University Career Day
1. A Career in Open
Source
Marshal Yung, Founder, Gaia Technologies
APU Career Day
2. 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
3. Show of Hands
PHP, Python, Ruby, etc? Contributing to open source?
Wants to work in an open source environment?
4. Built on Open Source
Facebook, Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube,
LinkedIn, Pinterest
5. 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
6. From the Neighbourhood
• GrabTaxi. Python, Java,
PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Carousell. Python,
PostgreSQL
• iMoney. PHP, MongoDB,
AngularJS, NodeJS, Nginx
• Piktochart. PHP, Ruby on
Rails, MySQL
8. 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
9. Types of Jobs
Software Engineers, Software Developers, UI/UX Developers, Software
QA, Administrators, Technical Writers (basically, the usual suspects)
12. Open Source Projects
Mozilla Project, Apache Software Foundation, Google Developers,
Github, Linux, PHP, Drupal, AngularJS, and many, many more
13. Start a New Project
Choose a Repository, Publish & Share Your Code, Start a
Following, That’s it!
14. 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