Build it. Backend Development: Building a Gemini Wrapper API
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Build It. Ship It. Secure It. — Session 1: Build It. Backend Engineering · Thursday, March 12 · 9PM · Online via Zoom
This is session 1 of a 3-part live series. One API — built this Thursday, deployed to AWS on Saturday, secured on Tuesday. Three engineers, three careers, one complete picture of how software actually reaches production.
Tonight's session belongs to the backend — and it starts before the code.
Most CS students have written functions, built projects, passed their exams. But ask them what actually happens when a user taps a button in an app — what server gets the request, what an API really is, how HTTP and REST work in practice — and the answers get vague fast. That gap is exactly what this session closes.
Eng. Abdelmoaz Ashraf (Software Engineer @ e&) is walking us through:
🔍 What backend development actually is — traced through real systems. When you post on Instagram, request an Uber, hit play on Spotify, or search on Google Maps — what is the backend doing, exactly?
📡 APIs, HTTP, REST & JSON — explained in plain terms, not just defined. How requests are structured, what headers and bodies carry, what REST constraints actually mean, and why JSON became the language every API speaks.
💼 The backend career — what the learning path looks like, how to build a GitHub that gets attention, what interviewers are actually looking for, and how CS students land backend internships.
🛠 Then it gets built — a real FastAPI service wrapping Google's Gemini AI, written from zero, live on screen. Every line explained. Every decision justified.
By the end of the session you'll have a working mental model of how backend systems work — and you'll have watched one get built in real time.
Free. Online. This Thursday.
📅 Session 1 — Build It: Thursday, March 12 · 9PM
📅 Session 2 — Ship It: Saturday, March 14 · 9PM
📅 Session 3 — Secure It: Tuesday, March 17 · 9PM
📍 Online — Zoom