Posted by Baris Yesugey – Regional Lead, Google Builders Turkey and Central Asia
We lately spoke with Ceren Tunay, a Google Developer Group Organizer in Edirne, Turkey. who notes, “whereas we had been organizing occasions, I seen folks have an enormous ardour for tech. I requested myself, “what’s that factor in tech that makes folks so impassioned? And after that, I began to higher perceive the tech business, due to the applications provided 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 & neighborhood builder who goals to be a stressed learner. I’m strongly captivated with how innovation may also help communities advance and develop. I have interaction in public talking on matters like growth, neighborhood, 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 Pupil 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 neighborhood. My dream is to construct a future the place the dearth of range is not a difficulty within the tech neighborhood.
What’s your job, and the way does it relate to the tech neighborhood?
My main is chemical engineering, and I’m working as a neighborhood 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 folks to navigate the training 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 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 discipline?
In learning the sphere of chemical engineering, I got here throughout the Google Developer Teams (GDG) and I participated within the organizing staff to assist and help the group. Whereas we had been organizing occasions, I seen folks have an enormous ardour for tech. I requested myself, “what’s that factor in tech that makes folks so impassioned?”
And after that, I began to higher perceive the tech business, due to the applications provided 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 turned fascinated about know-how?
I obtained launched to know-how on this manner via GDG. Once I first participated locally, 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 look at folks and see what they’re doing in tech and within the broader business. Once I noticed folks’s ardour and curiosity on this area, I began to additionally have an interest. However the second that I wished to be taught to code is once I realized how folks get to benefit from the time when they’re coding and enhance themselves altogether.
What is exclusive about your GDG neighborhood or builders in Turkey?
We’re a neighborhood that continues to be shut, supportive, and delicate to one another’s wants. It’s straightforward to succeed in somebody on the opposite facet of Turkey locally. GDG as a program helps this trigger as a result of when folks begin to be taught to code however have an issue, they will simply be demoralized, which could cause them to stop studying and by no means attempt once more. However with the GDG neighborhood, 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 change into braver to be taught and obtain with the GDG program.
With a objective of making an area for studying new developer instruments, we arrange workshops, trainings, and icebreakers for our neighborhood, to strengthen its capacity to attach folks round technical ideas. We maintain periods on technical instruments, neighborhood administration, mission administration, private objective setting, and plenty of extra matters. The occasions we host present the facility of neighborhood. The vital factor for me is that the applications and content material stay open-minded, equal, and numerous.
What’s a latest spotlight out of your neighborhood work?
We hosted an Android DevFest and acquired fantastic suggestions from our members. We wished to do one thing and get collectively when occasions had been beginning to happen bodily once more. We organized an in-person occasion with skilled audio system and varied content material.
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These audio system accompanied us with fantastic shows all through the occasion. We had enjoyable conversations on many matters, from the Jetpack library and Compose to utility structure. We had an awesome day as folks united by our ardour for Android, having enjoyable, ingesting quite a lot of espresso, and bringing one another quite a lot of new positive aspects.
What’s the second the place you are feeling like every part 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 nicely 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 Outstanding” workshop, which is an initiative empowering girls and different underrepresented teams to have fun their achievements within the office and past.
What’s an instance of neighborhood work you’re proud to share?
On the “I’m Outstanding” 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 neighborhood initiatives. At first, I didn’t perceive what he was trying to ask me about, however then as he shared his story of affect, which made me proud.
He stated that he was a trainer 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 enhancing myself, however I used to be additionally rising and operating with the neighborhood.
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What are some technical sources you might have discovered essentially the most useful to your skilled growth?
What are your plans for the long run, in your profession as a GDG organizer?
I’m nonetheless exploring, career-wise, however I positively plan to stay within the tech business and purpose to have connections with folks. Now, I’m working as a neighborhood supervisor, together with my teammate Serkan Alc, who is a good staff employee and supporter. We’re constructing a neighborhood via GDG. So we are able to say for each domains of my work and neighborhood, essentially the most thrilling tasks are creating Bootcamps and webinars that assist and encourage folks to take a step into the sphere of tech.
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