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A Dialog with Android Developer and Group Builder, Ceren Tunay

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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 observed 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 direction of discovering my dream job.”

Inform us about your self

I’m a cell developer & group builder who goals to be a stressed learner. I’m strongly captivated with how innovation will help communities advance and develop. I have interaction in public talking on subjects like growth, 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 Ladies 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 consider that extra colours make a greater rainbow within the tech group. My dream is to construct a future the place the dearth of range 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 growth firm referred to as Sport Manufacturing unit. My community-facing function permits me to be an individual who motivates and helps individuals to navigate the training course of on their journey to turning into a developer. I really feel in a position to create inspiration as a result of I’ve been via 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 area?

In learning the sphere of chemical engineering, I got here throughout the Google Developer Teams (GDG) and I participated within the organizing workforce to assist and help the group. Whereas we had been organizing occasions, I observed 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 direction of discovering my dream job.

Are you able to inform me about the way you grew to become keen on know-how? 

I bought launched to know-how on this approach via GDG. Once I first participated in the neighborhood, I used to be really solely planning to enhance my group and challenge administration expertise. However I used to be fortunate that I had the prospect 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 house, I began to additionally have an interest. However the second that I needed to be taught to code is once 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 is still shut, supportive, and delicate to one another’s wants. It’s straightforward to succeed in somebody on the opposite aspect 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’ll simply be demoralized, which could cause them to stop studying and by no means attempt once more. However with the GDG group, they help 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 straightforward to modify to a different tech. They turn into braver to be taught and obtain with the GDG program.

With a purpose of making an area for studying new developer instruments, we arrange workshops, trainings, and icebreakers for our group, to strengthen its potential to attach individuals round technical ideas. We maintain classes on technical instruments, group administration, challenge administration, private purpose setting, and plenty of extra subjects. The occasions we host present the ability of group. The vital factor for me is that the applications and content material stay open-minded, equal, and various.

What’s a latest spotlight out of your group work?

We hosted an Android DevFest and obtained great suggestions from our members. 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.

An in-person collect for DevFest Android in Turkey

These audio system accompanied us with great shows all through the occasion. We had enjoyable conversations on many subjects, from the Jetpack library and Compose to software structure. We had an ideal day as individuals united by our ardour for Android, having enjoyable, ingesting plenty of espresso, and bringing one another plenty of new positive factors.

What’s the second the place you’re feeling like every little thing 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 know-how. 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 outdated 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 affect, which made me proud.

He mentioned 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 lessons. 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 working with the group.

 

Ceren leads a “Why Kotlin” workshop for inexperienced persons and technologists in the neighborhood


What are some technical sources you have got discovered probably the most useful in your skilled growth?

What are your plans for the longer term, in your profession as a GDG organizer?

I’m nonetheless exploring, career-wise, however I undoubtedly plan to stay within the tech business and goal to have connections with individuals. Now, I’m working as a group supervisor, together with my teammate Serkan Alc, who is a good workforce employee and supporter. We’re constructing a group via GDG. So we will 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 sphere of tech.

Wish to begin rising your profession and coding information with builders like Ceren? Then be a part of a Google Developer Group close to you, right here. Study extra about upcoming DevFests right here!



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