Joint Meetup (SIGN UP AT LAPHP): What makes a Great Developer? (Panel)

SIGN UP HERE!!!! (http://www.laphp.org/events/40594342/)

We are having a great event coming up in November. Instead of the general talk we decided to do something different and make a free form panel discussion on what makes a great developer.

We invited several CTOs from the leading local companies, some of our member developers as well as several recruiters for our panel, so that we can look at the topic from the different perspectives.

We will discuss on what CTOs and recruiters are looking at when they search for the talent and how we distinctiate between the different levels of developers -- i.e. what makes up a difference between the junior, mid-level and senior developers.

The goal is to come up with an answer where people can see what clearly the three levels. If you are interested in a career advancement, this would be an excellent opportunity to find out what qualifications are necessary to move to the next level.

We will also solicit some tips form our fellow developers and members on what really constitutes a great developer and what you can learn in order to become one.

This discussion would not be particularly PHP specific, as our firm belief is that one should master at least several different platforms and be aware of more general principles of software design in order to really become a great developer.

We will have a brief introduction by Khari Mack - one of our member developers and the free form discussion will follow. We invite everyone to participate in the discussion, not just our panel.

OUR PANEL

We invited several leading CTOs, developers and recruiters to participate on our panel. Here are some of the people we invited for our panel:

CTOs:
Samson Lov -- CTO, KOSS Media.
Alon Schwartz -- CTO, DocStoc.
Hung Tran -- CTO, Machinima.
John Schiple -- he is a freelance CTO, consulting a number of local startups.

Developers:
Dan Beam -- developer at Google (Dan had also a number of past gigs with local tech companies, including Yahoo!).
Anand "Kumi" Nandakumar -- developer for Sony Pictures, also consulted a number of local startups.
Joe Devon -- consultant at Fox Media (one of the guys behind the American Idol web site) and a local community leader.

Recruiters:
Carter Winton -- recruiter at "Q".
Carole Schlocker -- recruiter at iSpace.

Several other people might also join our panel. As we mentioned above, we invite you to participate in the discussion even if you are not officially on our panel.

EVENT LOCATION

Our November event will be held at the office of one of our local startups named BetterWorks (http://www.betterworks.com/). They are one of the leading LA startups founded by few accomplished individuals, including Paige Craig, Zao Yang and George Ishii.

Admission is free. Refreshments and drinks will be served!
The space is limited, so hurry up.

FOLLOW US

If you want to hear about upcoming tech meetups, follow the group and organizers:

Twitter: @laphp (http://twitter.com/laphp) | @olegbaranovsky (http://twitter.com/olegbaranovsky) | @ronpeled (http://twitter.com/ronpeled) | @joedevon (http://twitter.com/joedevon)
Google+: Oleg (http://gplus.to/olegb)Please use these hashtags when tweeting about us: #LAPHP (http://twitter.com/search/LAPHP)

ALSO JOIN LAPHP ON:

LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1833081) | Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_183977211633376) | Plancast (http://plancast.com/laphp)