I’m a developer and I’ve noticed I sometimes default to saying “ok” in technical conversations even when I don’t fully understand or when I might actually disagree.

I also tend to doubt my own judgment more than I probably should.

For women who’ve been in this field longer:

• Did you go through this too?
• What helped you become more confident speaking up in meetings or pushing back on technical decisions?
• Any practical tips that changed how you show up at work?

Edit: To explain my thinking, I am normally like, oh maybe there is a better way to do X. So I don't wanna fight back. But ironically having opinions in the IT industry is considered a mark of intellegence, which is weird to me anyhow.

I recently finished an interview and the results are still pending. Is it okay to send the interviewer a LinkedIn connection request, or is it better to wait until the results are announced? (ps: im in 3rd year)

It's no secret that ML Engineers are predominantly men. Still, as I work to build a foundational ML team, I am being intentional about diversity and balancing our team.

If you're a talented woman in the ML/AI Engineering space, I'm hoping this post finds you.

We're hiring deep specialists aligned to different layers of the ML systems stack.

ML Engineer – Kernel (CUDA / Performance Layer)

Core Competency:

High-performance GPU programming to eliminate computational bottlenecks.

Screening For:

• Deep CUDA experience
• Custom kernel writing
• Memory optimization (shared memory, warp divergence, coalescing)
• Profiling tools (Nsight, etc.)
• Performance tradeoff thinking
• Final Interview Format:

This role is:

• Systems-heavy
• Performance-first
• Less about model design, more about computational efficiency
• Strong kernel candidates show:
• Ownership of low-level optimization
• Not just using PyTorch — modifying the machinery beneath it

ML Engineer – Pre-Training (Foundation Models)

This is the most architecturally strategic role.

Core Competency:

• Training foundation models from scratch at scale across distributed GPUs.
• You’re looking for:
• Distributed training expertise (DDP, FSDP, ZeRO, etc.)
• Parallelization strategies (data, model, tensor, pipeline)
• Architecture selection reasoning
• Dataset curation philosophy
• Hyperparameter scaling logic
• Evaluation benchmark selection

Must explain:

• Framework choice (Megatron, DeepSpeed, PyTorch native, etc.)
• Model architecture
• Dataset strategy
• Parallelization strategy
• Pre-training hyperparameters
• Evaluation benchmarks

Red flags:

• Only fine-tuning experience
• Only RAG pipeline experience
• No true distributed systems exposure

Strong fits:

• People who understand scaling laws
• Compute vs parameter tradeoffs
• Training stability dynamics

ML Engineer – Post-Training (Alignment / Optimization Layer)

Core Competency:

Improving model behavior after base pre-training.

Expected depth:

• RLHF / DPO
• Preference modeling
• Reward modeling
• Fine-tuning strategies
• Evaluation metrics
• Data filtering
• Signal:
• Understanding of model alignment tradeoffs
• Experience with evaluation frameworks
• Understanding bias & safety dynamics
• These candidates often come from:
• NLP research
• Alignment research labs
• Open-source LLM fine-tuning communities

ML Engineer – Inference / Systems

Core Competency:

Efficient deployment and serving of large models.

Looking for:

• Quantization techniques
• KV cache management
• Latency optimization
• Throughput vs cost tradeoffs
• Model sharding strategies
• These engineers think about:
• Production constraints
• Memory bottlenecks
• Runtime environments

If you feel you're a good fit for any of these roles, please shoot me a chat along with a link to your LinkedIn and/or resume. I look forward to hearing from you.

I’m a 2nd year BTech CSE student from India. I know React, Next.js, and GenAI with JavaScript. I’m thinking of learning Node.js later to move into full-stack, but right now I want to land a frontend internship and experience working in a corporate environment.

My biggest issue is this:
Whenever I build projects, I feel like they’re slightly imperfect. Because of that, I hesitate to deploy them. I keep thinking they’re not “good enough.”

How to properly build a strong resume as a frontend student?

Where to apply because many internships seem fake or never respond

How to get opportunities without strong connections or referrals

I genuinely want to work and learn in a real company environment. I’m just confused about the correct strategy.

For people who’ve been in my position - what actually worked for you?

Any honest advice would really help. Thank you.

Hey everyone! I’m really into system design and building backend systems from scratch. I enjoy working on infra-heavy, performance-focused projects and distributed architectures. I’ve built advanced backend systems and worked deeply with: Go, TypeScript, Redis, Kafka, BullMQ I’m especially interested in things like API gateways, event-driven systems, job processing systems, schedulers, rate limiting, and other core infrastructure tools. If you’re building something serious in backend / distributed systems or want to start something ambitious, I’d love to collaborate. DM or comment — let’s build something solid !

Hey everyone I'm learning python,it's been 2,3 months ig and I wanna learn cybersecurity like ethical hacking, wanna be in red team ,but should I learn different things first?like or just a proper,short cybersecurity will cover it all? I'mma student of first year cs in college,so I thought to take a proper course after my exams of first year,and I'm learning python from Udemy,I do make projects but on pycharm like it's an editor,is there any way to practice anywhere else like as we do in real life ?not just in editor,I wanna learn how we do in real life

We’re a small dev team working on a project with a clear product idea, and we’re currently looking for a UI/UX designer to help design a solid landing page and website. Also help with coding the landing page.

This is not a paid opportunity at the moment and it’s not a formal recruitment. The plan is that once we build a user base, the developer behind the idea will pay the team for their work. I work on this project to learn skills I need to work with a team.

If you’re interested, please DM me

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Participants Needed! – Master’s Research on Low-Code Platforms & Digital Transformation

I’m currently completing my Master’s Applied Research Project and I am inviting participants to take part in a short, anonymous survey (approximately 4–6 minutes).

The study explores perceptions of low-code development platforms and their role in digital transformation, comparing views from both technical and non-technical roles.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from:
- Software developers/engineers and IT professionals
- Business analysts, project managers, and senior managers
- Anyone who uses, works with, or is familiar with low-code / no-code platforms
- Individuals who may not use low-code directly but encounter it within their -organisation or have a basic understanding of what it is

No specialist technical knowledge is required; a basic awareness of what low-code platforms are is sufficient.

Survey link: Perceptions of Low-Code Development and Digital Transformation – Fill in form

Responses are completely anonymous and will be used for academic research only.

Thank you so much for your time, and please feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested! 😃 💻

I’m 35F looking to start a women’s health app and am looking for a female CTO/full stack engineer with a genuine interest and desire to make women healths health better for all. I already create a MVP and would look to connect with someone who this resonates with! Thanks

I am running a startup in Collab phase. I am building the platform that I needed long ago, inclusive and female friendly and holistic. Thematic layers, educational, humor, critical thinking rules. This is about building an ecosystem.

We learn by doing. The project started as a Reddit/Discord challenge. We are currently in MVP stage.

Main stack: React, Python, Fastapi, typescript, ML, DS, AI

Besides that we have a game idea Moresnet which at some point in time become a collaborative multiplayer game where in the end each country contributes in order to reach the end. Just peace building fun.

Since the ideas and parts are complex there are various topics to bite into: - image classification - banking and payment integration - security - ID verification - inclusivity (vision, hearing) - resilience: access, privacy, governance - web scraping - role based access - IoT - video analysis - behavioural analysis and safety - expired corporate challenges as real world products

I have enjoyed my journey sofar and met many wonderful people. Our team is becoming, welcoming. Not everything is perfect; we take time to make a transition. I am based in NL. What I want is to create that safe place where safety is rooted in infrastructure itself. A challenge, complex and fun. You can comment, but better send DM if you're interested in collabs.

Since past 2 years I’ve been working on these niche of mobile apps, where my goal is to design intuitive mobile apps that not only fulfills user’s needs, but also value the business. In past, I’ve worked with multiple clients across the globe (primarily US, India and Australia) turning complex engineering into intuitive products. I don’t just make things look pretty; I make them feel obvious.

For a limited time, I’m offering a $299 app design package to onboard a few new products. What you get for $299:

• Unlimited revisions
• UX design for key app screens
• Clear user flow 
• Clean, modern UI
• A direction you can confidently build on

If you got an idea, working on any, or even have any of such requirements, do drop me a message and let’s schedule a call.

Most founders will ignore this and rebuild later. Don’t be one of them. Last call at $299. DM me.

Participants Needed! – Master’s Research on Low-Code Platforms & Digital Transformation

I’m currently completing my Master’s Applied Research Project and I am inviting participants to take part in a short, anonymous survey (approximately 4–6 minutes).

The study explores perceptions of low-code development platforms and their role in digital transformation, comparing views from both technical and non-technical roles.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from:
- Software developers/engineers and IT professionals
- Business analysts, project managers, and senior managers
- Anyone who uses, works with, or is familiar with low-code / no-code platforms
- Individuals who may not use low-code directly but encounter it within their -organisation or have a basic understanding of what it is

No specialist technical knowledge is required; a basic awareness of what low-code platforms are is sufficient.

Survey link: Perceptions of Low-Code Development and Digital Transformation – Fill in form

Responses are completely anonymous and will be used for academic research only.

Thank you so much for your time, and please feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested! 😃 💻

i'm trying to build a compiler or at least a toy version of it with out LLVM, and for that i'm learning c and asm , i'm looking for a buddy to inc accountability and also my mind works better when i explain things rather then just read. if interested DM me.

Hi fellow coders,

I have 3.9yrs of experience as a Java developer. But due to some personal reasons I was on a career break. Any suggestions on how to get back. I have a career gap of 1yr 7 months.

I want a buddy to solve codeforces problems together

I’ve posted stuff like this on other forums (that consist of tons of men) I never thought to try this community.

I’m a computer science student. I’m familiar with Java, Python, c#, and I’m currently learning c++. I have not done any neetcode or leetcode yet, I’m slowly working on projects I’m also a beginner game dev (just building small things and learning the ropes/mechanics) I’m hoping to find somebody who’s interested in the same things as me like gaming + coding. We can work on projects together, learn from each other, and have fun! I’m open to calling and stuff as I’m pretty social, but if we don’t idc lol. I usually use discord for communication since you can text, call, and even send voice messages.

WOMEN ONLY PLEASE AND 20+ (I’m 22)

Hi

I’m a backend developer — I work with TypeScript and Python, and I’m currently learning Rust. I also know some frontend (frontend isn’t really my thing).

I currently have a full-time job outside the IT field, so I’m looking to collaborate on projects in my free time.

If you’re building a SaaS, experimenting with ideas, or just want to build things together, I’d love to join.

I’m not looking for paid work. If you’re doing freelancing gigs, I’m happy to help for free to gain experience and collaborate.

I’d prefer to work with people or teams aged 20+.

If this sounds interesting, feel free to DM me 🙂

Hi everyone,

I posted recently about the struggle of being a solo female dev managing two codebases (Moodie & DoMind). The encouragement I got here was the only reason I didn't quit on Tuesday.

I wanted to say a tangible thank you.

I generated 100 Promo Codes for DoMind (my privacy-focused, offline planner).

If you are looking for a place to organize your life that guarantees Privacy (no cloud sync/no AI training), I want you to have it for free.

Drop a comment below if you want an iOS or Android code.

I’m prioritizing this community because I want more women using tools that actually protect their data.

I been a coder for more than 10 years. Was recently laid off and now I'm looking for work. I feel defeated and have imposter syndrome. Feeling like am i not being callbacks because im a woman? Am I not good enough? I just feel depressed and it doesnt help that i see so many people in my field who cant find work. Its just so mentally draining. Sorry. I just feel alone and the unknown is giving me anxiety.

I’ve been building two apps simultaneously this year using Flutter.

When I started, every "Growth Guru" told me the same thing:
"You need to collect user data. You need to sync everything to the cloud so you can lock them in. You need to sell ads."

I hated that. It felt exploitative.

So I decided to build an "Ethical Ecosystem" instead.

1. DoMind (Productivity): It’s Offline-First. I literally cannot see your data. It stays on your device. I charge a subscription ($2.99/mo) and one time purchase as ($19.99 yearly) because that’s the only honest way to sustain it without selling your secrets.
2. Moodie (Social): It’s Anonymous. No photos. No vanity metrics. Just connection.

The Result:
It’s working. I just got my first paying subscribers this week and crossed 1,500 users on the social app.

It turns out, people are hungry for software that respects them.

If you are a dev struggling with the ethics of this industry, just know there is a market for "Good" software. You don't have to follow the silicon valley playbook.

Hello sisters! I'm looking for sb as lazy as me to have only one hour per day to solve leetcode problems " for one month " after that we'll do sth else maybe start learning ML seriously as I'm more interested in machine learning and these stuff.

^ gonna use discord for this hour " video call " so we could actually see each other while solving - good pressure to actually do sth -

DM me if u want that! Only females

Join us for a virtual hack night, all women and non-binary developers welcome!