JuniorDevSG - Code & Tell July 2025

Event Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
Venue: SGInnovate
32 Carpenter Street Singapore 059911

NO FOOD PROVIDED FOR THIS MEETUP

Venue Sponsor: SGInnovate
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Presentations

Topic: Working with databases

Speaker:
Sylvester Chin, Software Engineer @ Allium
LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/sylvesterchin

Description
General database best practices, using read replicas/load-balancing primary-replica connections, observability.

About Sylvester
Sylvester was previously a backend engineer working scaling GitLab SaaS platform. He is currently a software engineer @ Allium, an enterprise blockchain data platform.

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Topic: What'S UP JuniorDevSG! | Building an AI-native startup before I turn 18

Speaker:
Ace (He Hua) Yip, Founder / CEO, 'Sup (supcareer.app)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ace-yip-71b71b20a/

I'll share about my journey as a student founder building a startup for Singaporean youths in the local ecosystem

- startup realities
- how I build while balancing school
- turning your dev project into a startup
- insights about the local startup ecosystem
- Agentic AI & AI industry trends

I'll also share about what I've built @ 'Sup, and give a lightning demo of our product!

About Ace
I grew up around microcontrollers & python (yay RPi, yay BeagleBoard!) and started building my own robotics projects at 7 (I thought mecanum wheels were the coolest things ever). Got into software & webdev afterwards and have been working on a couple of projects in that area since. In 2024, I met my team of talented devs and we started building 'Sup, an AI-native edtech startup aiming to reshape the recruiting experience and give students/grads a leg up in career development.

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Schedule:
7:00 to 7:15 - Event Registration & Networking
7:15 to 7:20 - Introductory Remarks
7:30 to 8:00 - Topic 1
8:00 to 8:30 - Topic 2
9:00 - Supper

About JuniorDev SG:
JuniorDev SG is a developer interest group that focuses on providing a place for junior developers to learn and network with each other.
At the same time, we seek to be a support system to help junior developers break into tech, navigate their careers as well growing them to one day become senior developers or tech leaders in the tech industry.