Mentoring & Advise

2022

27 Jan, 2022

Mentored an Engineer

Mentored in Call-for-Papers workshop with Gerard Sans

I was invited to be a mentor in a Google-organized online workshop on creating Call-for-papers for conferences. The main trainer was Gerard Sans, who is a worldwide public speaker. He shared his experience about how conferences are organized and how call-for-papers are accepted through a committee. He then shared tips on how to create a good Call for papers proposal and how to choose title, elevator pitch and description.

After that, attendees were asked to create a call-for-paper proposal and those were shared with mentors including me. I helped 4 students with their proposals with sharing my feedback on improving title, elevator pitch etc.

2021

09 Dec, 2021

Judged a Hackathon

Mentored an Engineer

Judge at Bazaar Technologies Hackathon Competition

I was one of the 6 judges at Bazaar Technologies (a Pakistan’s B2B marketplace and digital ledger platform Bazaar which raised $30 million) organized Hackathon competition. The theme of the hackathon was to provide a single day event where the teams worked towards innovations under the theme: Simplifying the lives of small businesses and merchants. There were 8 teams comprising 5-6 persons from different backgrounds like devs, designers, etc. They created designs, presentations, market analysis, business plan etc. Some had also created prototypes as well.

28 Apr, 2021

Mentored an Engineer

Mentored someone

Helped a developer with UI lagginess issue

A person approached me on LinkedIn to ask for help in his work app where app was getting stuck on loading a screen. I helped him optimize it through the usage of coroutines and Fragments.

11 Apr, 2021

Judged a Hackathon

Android Dev Jetpack Compose Challenge Judge

I judged 6 entries. This included 3 hours of cloning each repository, looking at the project code base, and running the apps. Finally filled out judge scores.

12 Mar, 2021

Mentored an Engineer

Mentored someone

Mentored 2 Students about career options and growth in Android

I mentored 2 students over a Google Meet call of 2 hours where we discussed different career options in Android and how to learn it and how to contribute to open source.

02 Feb, 2021

Judged a Hackathon

Mentored an Engineer

Judge & Mentor at Coding Guru 3.0 Competition

CodinGuru is IEEE LUMS’s coding competition. This year, from 30th-31st January 2021, CodinGuru 3.0 is all set to be bigger, brighter, and bolder than its predecessor. Continuing the legacy of the previous year, the delegates will be given the opportunity to prove their mettle through participation in any one of our various modules. Each module will have unique and intellectually stimulating problems tailored to the particular module genre.

I was invited as one of the judges of the AppGuru competion and was the mentor for any kind of help/advice students need during 24 hours of participation and developing app.

There were more than 30 teams in the competition with about 13 projects submitted. Since the competition was online and was ongoing 24 hours of period, they had to develop an app about Life Under Water theme.

After the competition, I along with others judged each submission individually, heard their pitches on Zoom through video calls and graded those. The one team was selected as winner.

20 Jan, 2021

Mentored an Engineer

1-on-1 Call to Mentor About Becoming a GDE

I have been helping a person to prepare for becoming a GDE for past few weeks through chat on Twitter, and Google meet calls.

2020

30 Aug, 2020

Judged a Hackathon

Judging Mission Billion Challenge: WURI West Africa Prize Apps

Judged and mentored the Mission Billion Challenge: WURI West Africa submissions with Noya Leve | Officer, Strategic & Partner Programs

07 Jun, 2020

Mentored an Engineer

Help in Face Detection TensorFlow in Android

I helped few university students with their Final Year Project about face detection in TensorFlow Lite in Android app.

29 Apr, 2020

Mentored an Engineer

Taught about LogCat and Finding the Crash Log in Android Studio

I got a booking on Calendly to help two girl students on how to debug the crashes and how to find why those crashes have come. I guided them on using LogCat and how to debug and helped them fix a NullPointerException crash they had at that time.

20 Apr, 2020

Mentored an Engineer

Bug Fix Help in Fragments and Database Query Issue

I helped a student with a bug in Fragments and a Database query issue in the Room for his Android app.

15 Apr, 2020

Mentored an Engineer

Mentoring and Career Advising through Zoom

I got a booking through Calendly to mentor a fresh graduate about how he should move forward with the tech and startups after CS degree. I shared some tips about personal branding as developer, my journey to GDE and how MBA can play a good part in his vision being a coder.

07 Apr, 2020

Spoke on a panel

Panel - Strategies for Learning the Tech Skills You Always Wanted

I shared my take on how I follow up with Android development and how I quickly learn new stuff in Android with various channels like online courses, YouTube, newsletters etc.

07 Mar, 2020

Mentored an Engineer

Judged a Hackathon

Judge & Mentor of Digital Pakistan Hackfair Flutter Competition

To bring new ideas and innovation for Digital Pakistan campaign, there was a competition announced for anyone. The idea was to create any app specifically in Flutter technology which solves any problem of Pakistan or bring something to Digital Pakistan campaign.

I was invited as one of the judges of the competition and was the mentor for any kind of help/advice in Flutter from the Android perspective.

There were more than 500 participants in the competition with about 50 projects submitted. Since the competition was online and was ongoing for a full month from 20th January to 20th February, I was playing a role as a mentor for participants to provide them help with their technical problems and issues.

After the competition, I along with others judged each submission individually and graded those. Out of those 48, 14 have been shortlisted for the next round and 3 will be selected as winners.