Claude Code for Software Developers: Beyond the Basics

Join us for an advanced, hands-on session focused on mastering best practices for development with Claude Code.
We'll go beyond the basics to cover planning, testing, and implementation, including deep dives into custom skills, subagents, hooks, context management, and maximising parallelisation using worktrees.

It's a walk-through of powerful agentic coding techniques on a live project, not slides about them.

What we'll cover

- Claude Code configs, plugins, MCP, and CLAUDE.md
- The plan to review to implement workflow and why planning first prevents AI slop
- Power-user territory: custom skills, subagents, and hooks, and how to know when to reach for each
- Context management and progressive disclosure
- Worktrees: running multiple agents in parallel and trusting the output

Speakers

Aritejh — Senior Software Engineer working on agentic applications in the FinTech industry. He's used Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot to ship agentic systems in production.

Manaswini — Senior Backend Engineer passionate about tackling the hardest problems in this space. She's drawn to the start-up world and volunteers across communities to support women in tech.

Eileen — Lead at Women Devs SG. She enjoys supporting others on their engineering journey and believes AI will reshape software development, pushing engineers to keep adapting how they learn, build, and think.

Who is this for?

Software developers already using Claude Code (or another agentic coding tool) who want to push their workflow further. Whether you live and breathe these tools or you're using them sometimes and want to level up, this one's for you!

What to bring

- Your laptop with Claude Code installed beforehand. This is hands-on, and we'd rather spend the time on techniques than on setup
- Your current workflow questions as there will be Q&A throughout

About the partners

Women Devs SG is a Singapore community for women developers that organizes events, mentorship, and spaces where engineers at every stage can learn from each other.

General Assembly is a global learning community and our venue partner for the evening, providing the space for us to gather and build together.

A community initiative by Women Devs SG, in partnership with General Assembly.

Registration starts at 6:30pm and the actual session at 7pm!