TechLadies Bootcamp
The TechLadies Bootcamp #6 is a 14-week part-time accelerated learning program designed to help women with basic programming background become professional programmers.
You will be guided by industry experts, creating products for non-profit organizations.
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This program will take place in Singapore from 12 Sep to 12 Dec 2020 and cost SGD550.
Full scholarships are provided for people with financial difficulties. We welcome women of all backgrounds and nationalities to apply.
Registration and Selection:
Submit an application form AND a simple technical task for us to evaluate your technical capabilities. Task details will be available in July in a repository on Github. Only 8 ladies are selected for this program. These ladies will work in teams of 4.
During the Bootcamp, you are required to:
Put in at least 15 hours each week, inclusive of attending coding sessions.
Attend all workshops conducted and at least 80% of coding sessions on every Saturday. (9am - 4pm)
After the Bootcamp:
Do a written interview and a technical article (on a topic of your choice) for the TechLadies blog.
With your team, present on your assigned project at the TechLadies Graduation Party in Jan/Feb 2020.
Don't worry if it sounds scary, we’ve programs to help with the technical tasks! 💪💪💪
July / August
3 pre-bootcamp workshops are conducted to equip women with basic programming skills to code complete the technical task for their application. These workshops are open to all women. It is not obligatory to sign up for the Bootcamp to attend these workshops.
8 August
Women interested in completing the technical task can attend this session to ask questions & get help for their submission apps.
Program Timeline
4 July, 11am (SGT)
Info Session & Application Opens
We will share with you more about the application process, and explain the participants will get to learn. Women interested in the TechLadies Bootcamp #6 should join this meeting. RSVP here.
1July - August
Pre-Bootcamp Workshops & Clinics
We have a series of workshops lined up to assist you in completing the technical task. These workshops are open to all women who are keen to learn.
215 August
Application Closes
Applications close on 15 August so make sure you submit your completed Technical Task and application form to be considered for the Bootcamp.
34 September
Application results
Applicants will be notified of their statuses, on a rolling basis, latest by 4 Sep. You may be contacted if we have questions, so do keep your eyes peeled on your email inbox!
411 and 19 September
Level Up workshops
The Bootcamp will start with 2 days of Level Up workshops for chosen participants to balance the set of skills needed. Level Up workshops will take place on 11 Sep and 19 Sep afternoon/evening (attendance is obligatory).
521 September - 12 December
TechLadies Bootcamp #6
Starting from the week of 21 Sep participants will need to code 15hrs/week, inclusive of attending coding sessions every Sat from 10am to 10pm 😱
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Bootcamp Builders
Anna Lisicka
Bootcamp Lead
Anna has 6 years of experience in IT and has worked at HP Inc as a Program Lead in marketing operations. She enjoys building projects from scratch and observing how the efforts of the team shape every program into something meaningful. She is part of the TechLadies core team, driving the Bootcamp program as an organiser, and hoping to use her experience to create a positive change for women in tech. She believes that when women support each other, magic happens. Anna is a certified Yoga instructor, passionate about holistic health and mind-body balance.
Angel Felismino
Bootcamp Lead
Angel is a technical recruiter mainly for banking and financial services. For her, the best part of this job is when you can match talent to value. She joined the TechLadies Bootcamp as an organizer in the hopes that she can help more women discover their tech talents and to help match them to valuable jobs.
Tejasvita Rao
Bootcamp Lead
Tejasvita has over 10 years of work experience in media and marketing. She enjoys the process of building initiatives and programs which require understanding different types of user groups and audiences. She believes the dialogue of women in the workforce needs to move beyond broad discussions and a tangible difference needs to be made in terms of their representation in areas such as technology and sciences. With the hope to contribute towards this cause, she has joined TechLadies as a Bootcamp lead for the 2020 edition. She loves to read, travel and to attend live music performances.
Chor Yi Poon
Product Lead
Chor Yi is a Product Manager who is interested in how technology can have an impact on society and the individual. She has experience working with users, designers & engineers to create customer-centric products. She’s especially interested in human-centered design and user/customer psychology. Outside of work, she’s passionate about causes related to women and inequality. She’s actively volunteering in these causes and hopes to be able to use her experience in technology to make a positive impact.
Purnima Kamath
Tech Lead
Purnima is a Lead Engineer with Oliver Wyman, co-founder, and Director at Women Who Code Singapore and an evangelist at YOW! Conferences. She is a technology generalist with over 15 years of experience building software using technologies like Java and JavaScript. She believes in learning by building creative things and is an amateur generative artist and painter in oils.
Kate Lim
UX/UI Lead
Kate is a UX designer and researcher. Through TechLadies, she has had the chance to work closely with NGOs to build tools that support their work in improving lives. In her free time, she enjoys making food, film, gaming and learning how to be a better human.
Jay Li Quek
UX/UI Assistant
Jay Li is a student at New York University studying Computer Science and Media, Culture and Communications. She has previously interned at Burpple on the business development and product design teams. At TechLadies, she hopes to continue to foster communities around tech and build products that help make everyday life easier.
Suk Yee Gong
Coach
Suk Yee is a self-taught coder and currently an AI intern with AISG. Before this, she's a coding instructor for children ages K-12. Her believe in never stop learning led her to first pick up coding 4 years ago which then eventually led her down the path of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Outside of the techie world, Suk Yee is a yoga enthusiasts and a dessert craze.
Fara Blanco
Coach
Fara has over 15 years experience in the Tech industry and has has worked in solutions service providers such as Sybase/SAP, Software AG, and NCS/SCS. She joins the TechLadies Community as a tech coach to help more women find their place in the Tech industry. Fara has previously taught at the NUS ISS FullStack Web Development programme. She currently leads the development team at Dr Wealth.
Neha Modi
Coach
Neha is a Senior Software Engineer at Visa . She has worked as full stack developer in past and has exposure to multiple backend and frontend technologies. She has worked in telecom, healthcare and payments domain during her experience of 9+ years. She is part of women tech network and recently shared her experience on programming languages as speaker in global conference. She loves to travel, cook , write poems and spend time with family . She has joined Techladies to learn and share with amazing women who aspire to fly high and at the same time would like to contribute towards NGOs .
Ying Tong Lai
Coach
Ying Tong is a cryptographic engineer at the Electric Coin Company. She is interested in privacy, the distributed web, and building better ways to organise and connect online. She believes that history, sociology, and political economy have to be part of the conversation in tech. In a past life, she was a physicist studying quantum cryptography.
Aaron Gong
Coach
Full stack developer focusing heavily on ExpressJS and VueJS. Still trying to keep improving on the way things are being done. Here to share my mistakes and lessons learnt since I started programming in 1991.
Thomas Chia
Coach
Thomas is a self taught developer, with a professional focus on web frontends. He has worked mostly in the finance domain, and enjoys getting involved in the local tech community when not at work. He has joined TechLadies to help more people find their calling in life.
Arjay Elbore
Coach
Jay is a Frontend Developer in a Bank, who has experience on building large scale applications. He likes to code and contributing to open source projects.
Akshata Mohanty
Coach
Akshata is a Fullstack Engineer on the Web team at Rakuten Viki. She is a self taught developer, with a degree in Architecture from IIT Kharagpur, India. She loves online education. Akshata was the Lead Developer in the Design Automation Lab at NUS. In that role, she built web tools for design learning and budding designers. She is also a night-time AI adventurer, a fanatic foodie and a novice MMA enthusiast.
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