AdvancedJS Amsterdam

🌟 AdvancedJS Amsterdam 🌟
🚀 Our mission is to share knowledge and innovative ideas with engaged attendees at our in-person JavaScript meetups, making the community bigger and better.

🍕 Free event with pizzas and drinks

🗓️ Date & Time:
Join us on October 30, at 18:00 for an evening filled with insights, networking, and the joy of JavaScript.

📍 Location: We'll gather at the Xebia office at
Wibautstraat 200, 1091 GS Amsterdam

🔍 Call for Proposals: Have an exciting topic you'd love to share with the community? We invite you to propose a talk for this and future meetups by filling out the form.

🕒 Event Schedule:

• 17:30 - Walk in, Drinks & Pizza 🍕
• 18:20 - 🎤 Frontend and Beyond: Choosing Your Next Career Move - Oleksandr Tryshchenko
• 19:00 - 🎤 Bridging the Gap: Better UX-Dev Collaboration for Better Products - Yesim Tohumcu & Serhat Altın
• 19:45 - 🎤 Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases - Guy Rose
• 20:30 - Drinks and networking
• 21:00 - Doors close

💬 Talks:
Frontend and Beyond: Choosing Your Next Career Move
In the talk Oleksandr will cover:
- The different types of companies - from startups to enterprises - and how their business models shape the role of engineering.
- What organizations value in engineers compared to what they expect from engineering leads. Why frontenders make good leaders.
- The branching career paths available to frontend engineers, and how to choose the one that best fits your goals.
- Practical strategies for getting noticed, building influence, and starting meaningful career growth conversations

Oleksandr Tryshchenko
With over 14 years of experience in software engineering, Alex has progressed from software engineer to staff frontend lead, and now works as a senior engineering manager at Typeform, where he oversees the core product teams division.

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Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases
Do you look like a famous meme? Find out using embeddings and vector databases! I'll show how to convert memes into searchable vectors, store them in databases, and build apps to find your meme twin. We'll cover embeddings (turning images/text into hyper-dimensional arrays), vector databases for storage/search, and live code examples using real memes from Ancient Aliens Guy to Zombie Boy.

Guy Rose
Guy is a Developer Advocate at Redis with a passion for sharing knowledge across developer communities worldwide. He ran the JavaScript meetup in Central Ohio for over 10 years, has serves on conference committees, and has even taught programming at a prison. A hard-boiled geek into RPGs, sci-fi, and tech, he also loves history and linguistics. He is a ham radio operator—callsign W8GUY. Guy is a proud father of three sons—all grown now—and lives in Ohio with his wife of 30 years.

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In this talk, Serhat and Yesim will explore how designers and developers can work more closely to create more effective, user-centered products. Topics will include:

* Embracing the "Shift Left" mindset, enabling designers and developers to engage in each other’s processes earlier in the product lifecycle.
* Understanding the Dev-Designer Dilemma and how to overcome common friction points.
* Practical strategies for building a collaborative workflow between design and development teams.
* How stronger collaboration leads to better business outcomes.
* The evolving role of AI tools in supporting both design and development.
* Why strategic thinking shouldn't happen in silos and how to do it together.

Serhat: A seasoned UXer with over 12 years of experience. He specializes in blending UX, technology and AI. He harmonizes Business, Marketing, Sales and Product objectives, directly translating key stakeholder needs and user feedback into enhanced experiences and engagement.

Yesim: A multidisciplinary designer with 12 years of experience, grounded in design thinking, AI, and strategic problem-solving. She has built an eclectic career across both physical and digital product design, working with global brands such as Domino’s Pizza and Adidas. Passionate about driving positive change, she leads cross-disciplinary workshops and delivers keynote speeches.

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Looking forward to welcoming you! 👋🚀