Beginning Your Career as a Software Engineer

By Khairil Iszuddin bin Ismail
Kiddocare
JOMLAUNCH & JOMWEB

I can only share from experience

Khairil Iszuddin bin Ismail

  • 2001, graduated from UTM Skudai

  • 2001, Datarunding Sdn. Bhd.

  • 2002, HR Systems & Consultings

  • 2003, Tahan Insurance

  • 2007, Kengkawan IT Solutions (self)

  • 2011, CTO @ Xentral Methods,
    E-Sentral.com

  • 2018, Taming Tech (self)

  • 2021, CTO @ Kiddocare

Khairil Iszuddin bin Ismail

  • CTO at Kiddocare
  • JOMWEB Community Leader
  • Organizer for JOMLAUNCH

MCMC Bee Award

Previous Works

Personal Mobile App Project with Phonegap

Previous Works

UPLOADnSELL.com - SOLD!

Previous Works

Publisher's Panel for E-Sentral.com

Previous Works

Personal Project, selling at CodeCanyon.net

Previous Works

E-Sentral.com

Previous Works

Current Works

Current Works

Current Works

Behind The Scene Works

Managing Cloud Servers on Amazon Web Services

Developed and Maintains APIs

Plan and Put in Place Scaling Strategy to Handle Traffic

Manage Third Party Vendors for Websites, Systems

Manage Software Development Projects

Recruit IT Talents for the Company

About E-Sentral.com

  • Xentral Methods Sdn. Bhd. founded in 2011
  • Three main founders
    Faiz, Irfan & Iszuddin (me)
  • Sell eBooks focusing on SEA region
  • Changed the face of Digital Publishing in Malaysia
  • Xentral Methods Sdn. Bhd. founded in 2011
  • Three main founders
    Faiz, Irfan & Iszuddin (me)
  • Sell eBooks focusing on SEA region
  • Changed the face of Digital Publishing in Malaysia
  • 2011, launched, first Frankfurt Book Fair
  • 2012, MAVCAP investment
  • 2013, MSC Status
  • 2013, Digital Library
  • 2014, Samsung Smart Library, PNM
  • 2015, KLIA Free eBook Zone
  • 2016, Perbadanan Kota Buku
  • 2011, launched, first Frankfurt Book Fair
  • 2012, MAVCAP investment
  • 2013, MSC Status
  • 2013, Digital Library
  • 2014, Samsung Smart Library, PNM
  • 2015, KLIA Free eBook Zone
  • 2016, Perbadanan Kota Buku

About Kiddocare

Nadira Yusoff

Muhaini Mahmud

How to build an MVP

  • Founded in 2019
  • Operating on WhatsApp and Google Sheet
  • Grew revenue to RM1m the first year
  • Raised investment through equity crowd funding
  • Plus, another 3 more VC investors

Then Iszuddin came along

Our New Stack

  • WordPress Website
  • Laravel Booking System
  • Laravel Backend API
  • AWS Cloud Infrastructure
  • Mobile App on Flutter (launching soon)

Bad Attitude Towards ICT Career

Codingeaphobia

Fear of having to write computer programmes

I made that up!

I Want To Become IT Manager

( So I Don't Have To Code )

I Don't Know How To Do That

Language, Methods, Servers, OS, Network

I Will Do Non-Programming ICT Jobs

Yes, maybe you can... but...

Not Sticking To Your Words

If you made a promise, given your word, signed a contract

Honour it!

How To Impress Future Employers

How To Impress Future Employers

Prove Your Capabilties!

Don't Tell Them... Show Them What You Can Do

Start Building a Portfolio

Build Something!

Yes, you actually need to code!

Nobody Said You Need To Graduate To Start

START NOW!

Use Up To Date Development Tools

Framework

Django

Ruby on Rails

Laravel

Codeigniter

Spring / Grails

Showcase Your Work!

Github

Blog

Sell

Skills That Will Make You Valuable

Skills That Will Make You Valuable

Version Control
Git

HTML, CSS , Javascript

Really Javascript!

Web, Desktop, Mobile, Hardware

Server Management

Especially Linux!

Optimization, Security

Backup & Restore

Cache Servers

Network

Scripting

Dive Deep

Don't Just Know It - Know It Well

Composer Package Creation - WordPress Plugin Development - Laravel Octane - Git Deployment & CI/CD - CSS Animations - Frontend Development with NPM/Yarn

IszuddinIsmail.com

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