Pathways To Tech brought to you by Headstarter 🎉
​🤔 What's the Event About?
​Pathways to Tech is a one day online event by Headstarter for current students and aspiring software engineers! Check out our 2 resume worthy project workshops:
​“Build your own AI App” by Faizan Ahmed, where you'll learn to build your own AI App using OpenAI and GPT-4
​“Fullstack and Firebase” by Yasin Ehsan, where you'll use React, Bootstrap, and Firebase to build a full stack app!
​💻 Meet the Speakers
​Hartek Sabharwal
​Hartek Sabharwal is a Software Engineer at MongoDB and a graduate of Cornell University where he majored in both Computer Science and Mathematics!
​Ryan Russel
​Ryan Russel is a Software Engineer at Microsoft where he works in the Azure App Service data team! He graduated from the University of Washington Bothell where he majored in Computer Science and Software Engineering.
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​Lindsay Browning
​Lindsay Browning is an angel investor and startup advisor! She was previously the first ever Global Director of Sales at LinkedIn and attended Columbia Business School in the Venture Capital & Private Equity Program!
​Tariq Ahmed
​Tariq Ahmed is a seasoned engineering expert! Tariq is Headstarter’s first investor and was the second hire in Applovin which has nearly 2000 employees. Tariq has interviewed 1000s and will talk about importance of team communication!
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Faizan Ahmed
​Faizan Ahmed is the Co-Founder and head of ML at The Headstarter! He worked at Bloomberg and Amazon, and cited by 25 people globally for his ML Research!
​Yasin Ehsan
​Yasin Ehsan is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Headstarter! He previously worked at Capital One in the Chatbot Team and won 13 hackathons!
​⌛️ Timeline
​INTRODUCTION (6:00 PM to 6:15 PM)
​The Team
​What is Pathways To​​ Tech
​What is Headstarter
​Special Announcements
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DAY IN THE LIFE (6:15 PM - 7:00 PM)
​Hartek Sabharwal
​Ryan Russel
​Lindsay Browning
​BREAK (7:00 PM - 7:10 PM)
​WORKSHOPS (7:10 PM - 8:25 PM)
​“Build your own AI App” by Faizan Ahmed
​Try an AI mock interview!
​“Fullstack and Firebase” by Yasin Ehsan
​BREAK (8:25 PM - 8:30 PM)
​CONCLUSION (8:30 PM - 9:00 PM)Â
​Keynote: Tariq Ahmed
​Thank you
​🚨Special Announcements
​🛠️ Mini Hackathon
​As we previously mentioned, there will be a mini hackathon! Now, to lay out the ground rules! The Mini Hackathon will start at 9PM on Thursday (right after we finish) and end at 3PM on Saturday. In those that time:
​Join the Discord
​Make teams of 3 to 5
​Make a project using what you learned from either workshop!
​Upload your code to a GitHub repo and send us a link to that repo with a short video on how it works to the Discord !
​It doesn't matter how big or small your project is, we simply want you to apply what you’ve learned. Furthermore, we invite you to the Headstarter office on Sunday afternoon to come present your project and network with others!Â
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🎟️ Raffle
​If you saw the timeline, you’ll see that you’ll get a chance to use the Headstarter platform for free! Try the next generation of mock technical interviews with your own AI Interviewer! In that 25 minute block, send a video of you using the platform to the discord along with any thoughts to the discord, and you’ll be entered in a raffle to win one 1 of 5 Amazon Gift Cards worth 25$ each.
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