Vipul Gupta
Vipul is a software engineer at balena and a documentarian running his docs initiative called Mixster. He advocates strongly for open-source, cheesecakes and party parrots.
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Your steps to
Job Readiness
at Amity
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The steps I took to becoming
Your steps to
Job Ready
at Amity
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Who am I?
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Who am I?
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My time at Amity
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My time at Amity
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Why should you care?
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The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort
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2016
- Too naive, impressionable, and studious
- Open to feedback & personal change
- Optimistic & by the book
- Didn't find the right people
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2016
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2017
- Restarted ALiAS, started contributing to open-source
- Still studious but worked on learning practical skills
- Got a major project at the CRC with ALiAS team
- Tried to do too many things at once.
- Found mentors, guidance, and thankfully a little bit purpose
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2018
- Started focusing a lot more on open-source
- Organized meetups for ALiAS, PyDelhi, volunteered for PyCon India
- Expanded online & offline network
- Worked with Sugar Labs for 5 months in GSoC
- Amity helped with HackMIT to access opportunities out of reach
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2019
- Became organizer for PyDelhi
- Mentored 16+ students to participate in the ALiAS GSoC AMA program.
- Contributed in building a new validation framework for Scrapy
- Even more talks, hackathons wins, workshops
- Started Mixster, first-year turnover was 16k
- Started looking for roles. Miserable first attempt.
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2020
- Mixster grew. Team of 11, turnover 1.4 lakh INR, retained by 3 companies
- After 7 rounds of interviews, finally rejected but then rehired by the company I am working for, starting in April 2020
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Financially independent. Wrote about it.
- Judging hackathons now, grew my role at PyCon India
- Then the pandemic came...
- Graduated from Amity. Online.
- Thought to travel to Europe on my own but ended up canceling 7+ flights.
- Joined balena and worked remotely. Wrote about it.
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A record of everything I did for the last 4 years
"How did I reach here"
"How did I become job ready"
If you ask others, they will say it's either programming skills, projects I did, opportunities I had from the start, talking at big conferences, organizing meetups, having mentors, being with the right group, or just blind luck.
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"How did I reach here"
"How did I become job ready"
If you ask me, I would agree.
Because whatever the reason might be that extra bit of work is what made the difference. And, I wanted to let my journey at Amity be an example to show that it isn't magic. I believe you can do it too.
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So, why should you care?
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Because, your first job is cruical
- Experience & mentorship
- Learning critical life skills
- Path to the next goal to find better work and designation
- And, of course, money.
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Your steps for job readiness
- Finding your group at college. This is the key.
- Finding seniors & mentors to guide you.
- Finding a community to contribute towards.
- Building credibility with teachers & college to support you.
- Be open to feedback from all sources.
- Build the ability to sell yourself in the job market
- Always keep looking for new opportunities
- Sharpen those soft skills to talk, write and lead when it matters
- Build skills, work on your craft, & the resume will take care of itself
- Contribute to open-source ethically, not for the money.
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Resources
- http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do.pdf
- https://foss.training/
- https://opensource.guide/
- Join ALiAS: https://asetalias.in
- https://www.firsttimersonly.com/
- Learn more about local communities & join meetups with meetup.com
- https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/remote-job-hunt-what-worked-for-me/
- https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/rat-race/
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And, that's about it!
Questions?
Vipul Gupta
Part-time remote setup builder, solves GitHub issues and makes memes that no one asked for.
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[Amity University] Finding roles in open-source
By Vipul Gupta
[Amity University] Finding roles in open-source
So you want a job when you graduate? Do you want to work towards it? Do you want steps too? Here's your guide.
