Shifting industries is always a challenging experience. Faced with many unknowns and with people who started off earlier than you, there's always a lingering feeling of uncertainty. In this event, we will interview two remarkable individuals who moved from the construction industry, the second least digitized in the world on how they moved to tech, the hurdles they ran into along the way, and how they found success in an entirely new industry.
Live Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9R0aqaqiPY
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Software Engineer
Hubble
Product Manager
Weiyuan is currently an Engineering Manager at Grab. As an engineer, he has worked on the full-stack development of scalable and distributed web applications. He doubles up as a Software Engineer for archipelago.rocks, a classroom tool for teachers to better facilitate teaching for teachers and learning for students, which is supported by NUS and free to use.
Outside of work, Weiyuan serves as a community lead for Big O(n) Development and GDG Cloud Singapore, and hosts events monthly to bi-weekly on cloud technologies and current-day topics. He is also a Google Developer Expert for Google, in cloud technologies, and often blogs and talks about these areas as well.
Community Builder
Senior Software Engineer
Women Techmakers Ambassador
