Ciklum Sponsored Ruby-Python Meetup in Minsk

Meetup is an event that unites people with similar interests and allows them to socialize, discuss various topics and reach the following goals: to Do, to Learn, to Share, and to Change!

A Belarusian meetup community is still pretty young. The first event to have been successfully held in the end of June 2010 was the Minsk Android meetup. It attracted about 200 Android developers, active Android users, representatives of Android –based mobile operators and mass media. The event basically set ground for further rapid growth of the country’s meetup community.

The Minsk Ruby-Python meetup was planned at the international conference “Business internet” (www.di.by) in October 2010. This 4-days conference attracted over 2000 people and helped Python and Ruby communities meet for the first time for knowledge sharing. Since the meeting raised too many issues to discuss, it was decided to meet up again later to continue the dialogue between communities.

The Ruby-Python meetup was organized by a team of volunteers from the Meetup By community. It was held on December 5, 2010 in the Belarusian State Radiotechnical University. Over 70 developers came over to discuss which technology is better for various tasks implementation – Ruby or Python. Within the event 7 speakers shared their knowledge and experience by hosting the following presentations:

• Pavel Gabriel, Project Manager, Agile coach (Smart Systems) – “What is the power of language?”

• Gleb Stiblo, senior developer, Mernik Research – “Introduction to Ruby”

• Dmitry Schuruk, senior developer, Frontex – “Python for everyone”

• Alexey Kondratenko, software architect, Altoros Development – “Why Ruby is a perfectly realized technology”

• Andrei Svetlov, Senior software developer, Python Evangelist, Ciklum – “Python: Comparison of instruments for web development”

• Alexander Rogalevich, software developer, Mernik Research – “Really attractive API in Ruby”

• Anatoly Babenia, open source software developer – “Why do we meet again?”

In spite of the competitive atmosphere, the event went friendly thanks to coffee-breaks and informal discussions.

Ciklum is known as an active supporter of the Belarusian IT Community. This time Ciklum Minsk acted as the event’s major partner. The company sponsored and organized coffee-breaks and brought in one of the keynote speakers – Andrey Svetlov, a famous member of the Ukrainian Python community – to share his experience and knowledge with his Belarusian colleagues. One of Ciklum’s goals is to help Belarusian and Ukrainian developers get to better know each other and enhance productive communication between them.

“Although Ciklum’s Minsk office is young, we’re already using a lot of advantages of being an international company and plan to invite more technology experts from Kiev and other locations to contribute to IT life in Belarus,” says Yanina Poteeva from Ciklum’s Minsk HR department.

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Lead C/Python developer is required to start up a new project

UPD: Vacancy closed

On behalf of Rayzon Technologies Ciklum is looking for Lead C/Python developer.

Skills required:

Technologies:
* Python,
* C, C++,
* Bash, Make
* Linux networking (TCP/IP, VPN, OpenVPN, routing, firewalls, etc.)
* IPv4 and IPv6
* WLAN

Experience:
* good analysis skills, capable of documenting systems analysis in a suitable way (e.g. UML)
* software and systems design (i.e. knowledge of software and system patterns)
* good English communication skills
* experience in commercial application development
* good understanding of Open Source concepts, libraries and licenses
* configuration management
* problem solving skills

Beneficial:
* Web-Development (JavaScript, AppServer, etc.)
* LaTex
* "3G" data card handling
* WiMax
* Cryptography
* Reverse-engineering capabilities

We offer:
* Working directly with Rayzon Technologies
* Opportunity to build your own team
* Long-term full time employment


Oliver H. comments on this position:
We're a young technology startup currently positioned in between research and product development. We're now looking for a senior Linux software engineer to transform our research-oriented products into commercial-grade software solutions. Our main product, a heterogeneous communications system integrating WLAN, 3G, Ethernet, Bluetooth, WiMAX, GPS and more is mainly used by Swiss authorities for security and safety and defense purposes.

Your role will be varied, but the first project will be the transformation of our semi-finished communications platform (audio, video, positioning, messaging, etc.) towards a sound and solid commercial basis. Thus we expect you to not only write good, well-structured and -documented code but also understand how to build a proper architecture and create a suitable design, with the accompanying documentation. Although we like to work along an agile methodology such as Scrum and value running software over documentation, we also need our few but necessary docs to be done properly.

You'll be the first member of a newly constructed team. Therefore you might need to work alone for some time in the beginning, until suitable additional engineers can be hired. We plan for a team of around 4 to 6 people. The company's head quarters is in Switzerland and you can expect traveling to HQ and to our customers a couple of times per year.

Comments:
* This can be basically 2 people to cover this set of knowledge if you do not feel you can make it
* The managing part can be tacken by Switzerland side, you are technical leader or later you can get into the project management as well

* You are expected to be a professional, participate in technical decisions, decide on the implementation, tools etc.

* Do not hesitate to apply if you are not familiar with part of those technologies so far, during the trainings provided on your start-up you can get all the necessary knowledge and experience.

Please contact HR Manager Yanina Poteeva for more details:
Skype:yanaswss
E-mail: ypo@ciklum.net