AskDeveloper Podcast Mohamed Elsherif

منارة هي أكبر مجتمع لمهندسي البرمجة في الشرق الاوسط و منصة متخصصة لتدريب المبرمجين على انهم ينجحوا في انترفيوهات أكبر شركات التقنية العالمية ي جوجل و ميتا و امازون و غيرهم.


للتقديم: https://bit.ly/4eAYGOM

Objective: Encourage as many software engineers in MENA to Sign Up Today to our Free self-paced programs that will prepare them to pass interviews at Global Tech companies & startups.

What does Manara do?
We provide free self-paced programs to MENA software engineers to prepare them to pass interviews at Global & Regional tech companies & startups.
We have 100+ hiring partners mostly in the USA & Europe who hire from our graduates pool all year long because they trust our vetting process.
We have placed 300+ software engineers in companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Qualtrics, Noon, Careem & many more.
We are MENA’s #1 community for software engineers. You will be motivated to develop your skills within a like-minded community and then stay motivated with them during your job search!

In this episode we will be talking to Amr Elselouky.
Amr is Manara's Regional Director leading the strategy & programs in MENA. With a decade of experience in education, L&D and EdTech; Amr brings in an insightful perspective that will help software engineers what it takes to develop themselves and prepare for interviews at tech companies.

ازاي تحسن ال Soft Skills بتاعتك مع أحمد عصام, أحمد الامام, أحمد الألفى و محمد الشريف
Most important soft skills
Communication
Collaboration
Problem-solving
Critical thinking
Adaptability
Time management
Attention to detail
Analytical skills
Creativity
Continuous learning
Teamwork
Documentation & Technical writing skills
Empathy
Decision-making
Leadership (for senior roles)
Conflict resolution (for team dynamics)
Presentation skills

لقاء يجمع بين أحمد الألفي, أحمد الإمام و أحمد عصام و محمد الشريف حنتكلم فيه عن الانترفيوهات و نعمل فيها ايه؟

المرة دي حندردش مع د وليد عمار عن الذكاء الصناعي و تأثيره على المجتمع, د وليد من خبراء الذكاء الصناعي و من اللي اشتغلوا في المجال سواء من أكثر من زاوية, سواء من زاوية الأكاديميا و البحث العلمي, أو من الناحية التطبيقية و العملية.

- Did scientific innovation (eg, AI) improve our lives?
- How does early stage scientific innovation translate into economic progress?
- Can AI be used to build more advanced weapon?
- Who is in charge?

Waleed Ammar is the co-founder of a mission-driven AI startup and a product manager at the Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2). Before rejoining AI2 this year, Waleed was a senior research scientist at Google, where he helped develop transformer-based models for generating DNA sequences based on PacBio long-reads which significantly reduced variant-calling errors [Nature Biotech'22]. He also helped develop task-oriented dialog systems which are more robust to disfluencies, code-switching and user revisions [arXiv'23]. Prior to joining Google, Waleed led the Semantic Scholar research team's efforts to develop ML-based methods to facilitate access to the literature [e.g., NAACL 19], build a knowledge graph of the scientific literature [NAACL'18], and use this wealth of information to identify systemic social problems in science [JAMA'19]. He also occasionally teaches courses at UW linguistics as an affiliate faculty member. In 2016, Waleed received a Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University. Before pursuing the Ph.D., Waleed was a research engineer at Microsoft Research and a web developer at eSpace Technologies. Outside work, Waleed spends most of his time on the water or in dancing studios.

لقاء بين محمد الشريف و أحمد الإمام عن معمارية البرمجيات
اللقاء بالفيديو
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ivk69FxwY

What it will take to have the middle east region create more startups:

1. Entrepreneurs and avoid the fear of failures
2. Infrastructure (internet, electricity, payments)
3. Education
4. Investments
5. Social connector (this is an important one - almost always ignored - Geekwire used to this in Seattle, etc..)
6. Exits. Hard to in our region with less M&A and IPOs but they will come with time.
7. Alumnis network of successful startups

Georges is a software engineer that worked previously at Microsoft, Uber and Airbnb.

He is currently helping startups, writing a technical newsletter at https://www.softwareengineeringtidbits.com/ and teaching a cohort based software engineering course at maven: https://maven.com/georges-el-khoury/mastering-software-engineering