Announcement of Mental focused 77th DevClub.lv
Hi.
Summer is good time for relaxing, slowing pace and self awareness to prepare ourselves for next season.
You are welcome on July 25 at 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).
Agenda for Mental focused 77th DevClub.lv:
- Igor Samokysh from Visma Latvia will give a talk “Learning how to learn”.
Our brains have a precise set of patterns to how it consumes new data and understanding those patterns will greatly help boost your learning skills as well as make the process of studying much more enjoyable. Knowing how to learn is the foundation of building solid competence in a certain domain. Learning how to learn was a game changer for me, both in my personal and professional life, and I hope it can be for you too.
(Language – English)
Tags: learning, self-education
Igor Samokysh is professional software test consultant and Test lead/analyst with a talent in finding bugs and more than 8 years’ experience in delivering quality. Numerous times I’ve implemented test processes including manual and automation on different types of projects. Managing test speciality track group of 20+ peoples for test automation and leading several tests automation learning courses (fundamentals of programming, testing, and test automation). Certified with various certifications, including ISTQB Advanced level.
- Edgars Letinskis from DevClub.lv will give a talk “Burnout syndrome – why should you take it serious“.
In this talk, I will share my experience with burnout syndrome – symptoms, how to avoid or cope with it and will use mega patented Chopstick method to explain why should you take it serious.
(Language – English)
Tags: Burnout, Health, Sustainability, Chopsticks
Edgars is responsible for project management and sales of all DevClub.lv events (meet-ups and 4 conferences). Also manages his investments in real estate. In free time like to hang out with family, running, hiking and watching movies
- Healthy Surprise
Named among World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune (Jan 2019), Cognizant is expanding in Latvia and currently looking for a:
– Technical Architect
– Senior System Developer
– Automation Tester
For more career opportunities, visit Careers.Cognizant.com
What if there was a job opportunity that offered you not only an interesting and challenging work, but also a great bunch of people to work with? And what if you could chill with them and maybe have a beer on our rooftop terrace after a busy day?
You can get that and so much more by joining SAPIENS team in Latvia!
Check out these opportunities:
– .NET Developer
– JAVA Developer
– Full Stack Developer
There is an IT crowd in Riga where besides creating fun and innovative stuff, people also contribute their cool ideas to the open source. How about joining Neotech Development ranks?
Opportunity with us:
– Java Developer
– QA Engineer – Automation
– QA Engineer – Manual
At INTEXSYS we are always looking for new talents. If you’re into e-commerce and would like to make an impact by working for one of the top 500 online retailers in the world, apply now:
– Senior Database Developer (MS SQL)
– Senior Software Engineer (PHP)
– Technical SEO Manager
We promise – it will never be boring!
At DYNATECH teamwork makes the dream work! Each of our teams has regular team buildings and outings that bring them closer together and helps them communicate better. Whether it would be a pizza night or a visit to a dog shelter, it’s always fun to turn colleagues into friends.
Are you a team player? Have a look at our open vacancies:
– Senior Front-End Developer
– QA Automatizacijas Inzenieris/e
– back-End Developer
Working at Posti Messaging you have the chance to be in the forefront of the digitalization and be a key player in creating the technical solutions that transform businesses. We are increasingly moving towards serverless setup and are serious about our Cloud strategy. Moreover, we are investing in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
We are currently looking for:
– Test Engineer (ideally with a knack to automate things, but will obviously provide all necessary trainings)
– Java Developer to speed up the development pace in our Spring Boot projects
Did you know that the good quality of your personal life brings more value to your work life? Oh boy (girl!), how we love that at Mintos! Join the most work-life balanced team. We are looking for teammates to grow with:
– Senior Software Developer
– Software QA Engineer
– UI/UX Designer
Looking for a place that both challenges and cares? Join Tieto Latvia and enjoy the 14th floor panorama view from our office:
– Test Automation Engineer
– Senior Software Developer (React)
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

Announcement of Cloud focused 76th DevClub.lv
Hi!
If you are dreaming about the Clouds during surprisingly hot Latvian summer days, this is the event for you! Come and listen from experienced Cloud technology practitioners and have a better picture of where the IT World going these days!
Please pay attention that this time we meet at Vienības gatve 109 (Unity Biznesa centrs) 1.st floor at June 20 at 18:30 and be ready to stay for Afterparty at the roof terrace (same building) at Intexsys office.
Agenda for Cloud focused 76th DevClub.lv:
- Narendra Sharma from Cognizant will give a talk “Emergence of IOT & Cloud – Azure “.
In this talk, we will discuss what is IOT, what is the market and growth of IOT, security in IOT, and factor for the growth of IOT, how the invention of eSIM giving a boost in IOT, and need of cloud and steps for the codification of IOT with Azure.
(Language – English)
Tags: IOT, eSIM, Azure, Cloud
Narendra is a Technical Architect at Cognizant, other than coding his hobbies includes Travelling, reading technical books & watching thriller/sci-fi series.
- Pavlo Serdiuk from Accenture Latvia will give a talk “SRE (service reliability engineer) on big DevOps platform running on the cloud”.
SRE (service reliability engineer). The talk is to explain the SRE philosophy and the principles of production engineering and operations in clouds.
(Language – English)
Tags: DevOps, SRE, AWS, Clouds
Pavlo is ADOP (Accenture DevOps Platform) Service Reliability Team Lead, SRE practitioner. Has more then 18 years of IT experience in Ops and Dev.
- Oleg Andreyev and Konstantin Tjuterev from Intexsys will give a talk “Preparing for Multi-cloud Operation”.
You will learn when simultaneous operation from multiple clouds should be considered, what are the challenges of running a large-scale e-commerce platform from multiple cloud providers and how these challenges can be solved. We’ll talk about two-way data-synchronization, deployment, traffic balancing and failover. We’ll also describe the steps we had to take to prepare our PHP/Symfony based application for multi-cloud operation.
(Language – English)
Tags: AWS, Azure, MySQL, UUID, DNS, Load-balancing, PHP
Oleg Andreyev is a Senior Software Architect at Intexsys. Konstantin Tjuterev is the founder of Intexsys who is also playing the role of Chief Architect at the company.
- Afterparty
Intexsys is happy to continue the tradition of hosting a DevClub events during the summer with an afterparty at the roof terrace (same building as the conference). Everyone is invited to join for free beer, snacks and always interesting conversations!
Greetings to all of DevClub community, SAPIENS is excited to be joining you!
Before scrolling down, you must know that not so long ago knowledgeprice.com joined Sapiens’ Digital Division, which focuses on Digital and Digital Transformation for Fin Tech and Insurance customers worldwide. So now we are looking for some extra sets of hands in these roles:
– Full Stack Developer (Javascript)
– Java Developer
– .NET Developer
– Technical Project Manager
There is an IT crowd in Riga where besides creating fun and innovative stuff, people also contribute their cool ideas to the open source. How about joining Neotech Development ranks?
Opportunity with us:
– Java Developer
At INTEXSYS we are always looking for new talents. If you’re into e-commerce and would like to make an impact by working for one of the top 500 online retailers in the world, apply now:
– Project Manager
– Senior Software Engineer (PHP)
– Conversion Strategist
We promise – it will never be boring!
Did you know English is the internal working language at DYNATECH? To help our employees grow and feel more comfortable, we organized special English classes, because we believe that no one should ever stop learning. Do you want to improve your English by using it every day? Join DYNATECH! Check our open vacancies here:
– Front-End Developer
– Back-End Developer
– Senior System Administrator
Working at Posti Messaging you have the chance to be in the forefront of the digitalization and be a key player in creating the technical solutions that transform businesses. We are increasingly moving towards serverless setup and are serious about our Cloud strategy. Moreover, we are investing in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
We are currently looking for:
– Test Engineer (ideally with a knack to automate things, but will obviously provide all necessary trainings)
– Java Developer to speed up the development pace in our Spring Boot projects
Did you know that the good quality of your personal life brings more value to your work life? Oh boy (girl!), how we love that at Mintos! Join the most work-life balanced team. We are looking for teammates to grow with:
– Senior Software Developer
– Software QA Engineer
– UI/UX Designer
Looking for a place that both challenges and cares? Join Tieto Latvia and enjoy the 14th floor panorama view from our office:
– Senior/Lead Ruby programmētājs
– Senior Software Developer (React)
COGNIZANT is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our industry-based, consultative approach helps many of the best-known organizations in every industry and geography envision, build and run more innovative, efficient businesses.
Currently, we are expanding our ranks in Riga and looking for a:
– Integration Architect
– Senior System Developer
– Mulesoft Integration Developer
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

Announcement of Mobile focused 75th DevClub.lv
Hi!
This time we have had a chance to invite two incredible international speakers, who are hosting full-day workshops on RigaDevDays conference – Venkat Subramaniam and Wei-Meng Lee. Wei-Meng will explain differences between cross-platform mobile development frameworks with a focus on Flutter. Venkat will guide you through Kotlin language features and how it could be used both for mobile and backend applications. Don’t miss this event if you are interested in modern languages such as Dart and Kotlin!
You are welcome on May 29 at 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).
Agenda for Mobile focused 75th DevClub.lv:
- Wei-Meng Lee will give a talk Cross Platform Mobile Development using Flutter. Maintaining multiple code bases for the same application is often a pain in the neck for mobile developers. In the recent years, different frameworks have appeared in the market that aim to reduce the workload of developers by offering them a write-once-run-everywhere approach. In this session, Wei-Meng will take a quick look at the different frameworks available – Xamarin, React Native, and Flutter. He will focus on using Flutter and see how it makes your life as a mobile developer easier. (Language – English)
Tags: Mobile, Flutter, Cross-platform
Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (http://www.learn2develop.net).
- Dr. Venkat Subramaniam will give a talk Programming with Kotlin As a multi-platform multi-target language, Kotlin is a language that is rapidly gaining popularity. It is fluent, elegant, concise, expressive, and easy to program with. In this presentation we will look at some of the key features of Kotlin and what makes it an exciting language to program both server-side, client-side, and mobile applications.
(Language – English) Tags: Kotlin, multi-platform, JVM, Android, DSL Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on Twitter at @venkat_s.
Our friends from RigaDevDays opened a call for volunteers. Good chance to visit the conference and participate in creating a big project! Register!
At INTEXSYS we are always looking for new talents. If you’re into e-commerce and would like to make an impact by working for one of the top 500 online retailers in the world, apply now:
– Project Manager
– Senior Software Engineer (PHP)
– Conversion Strategist
We promise – it will never be boring!
Did you know that DYNATECH’s mascot is an astronaut? That’s because while we don’t go to Mars yet, we give people space to grow, develop and become the best versions of themselves. Are you in for cosmic adventures? Check out our open vacancies:
– Back-End Developer
– Senior System Administrator
– QA Automation Engineer
Working at Posti Messaging you have the chance to be at the forefront of the digitalization and be a key player in creating the technical solutions that transform businesses.
We are currently looking for a Test Engineer (ideally with a knack to automate things, but will obviously provide all necessary training), as well as would be happy to find one more Java Developer who’d speed up the development pace in our increasingly growing projects.
Did you know that the good quality of your personal life brings more value to your work life? Oh boy (girl!), how we love that at Mintos! Join the most work-life balanced team. We are looking for teammates to grow with:
– Senior Software Developer
– Software QA Engineer
– UI/UX Designer
Looking for a place that both challenges and cares? Join Tieto Latvia and enjoy the 14th floor panorama view from our office:
– Senior Test Engineer
– System Architect (CI/CD)
COGNIZANT is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our industry-based, consultative approach helps many of the best-known organizations in every industry and geography envision, build and run more innovative, efficient businesses. Currently, in Riga we are looking for a:
– System Developer
– Agile Coach
– Integration Developer
There is an IT crowd in Riga where besides creating fun and innovative stuff, people also contribute their cool ideas to the open source. How about joining Neotech Development ranks?
Opportunity with us:
– Java Developer
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:
Useful links to make up your mind about RigaDevDays 2019!
It’s only a bit more than a month before RigaDevDays 2019!
To help you make up your mind, we gathered all the useful links about the conference, so you could dive into details and make a decision:
- The program The most important and interesting part:
– 2 main days with 5 tracks: Java, .NET, Cloud+Microservices, Databases and Emerging Tech.
– 1 workshop day for those who want to have a quick and thorough level up in the profession.
Organizers published a PDF program, which is convenient to assess and look at.
- Activities, networking, and fun at the conference
RigaDevDays is celebrating the 5th anniversary and paying a lot of attention to leisure activities, so all the participants can feel the vibes of holidays!
On the website, you can find a separate page devoted to activities.
Briefly: discussion zones, top IT companies’ stands, quizzes, riddles, prizes, a show of robots, Sam Aaron performance, huge networking party and a movie screening in the end.
We agree with organizers – it will be true tech holidays!
- Free Passes to bloggers
RigaDevDays provides free passes to bloggers and tech journalists. So maybe it’s the right time to start blogging, huh? 🙂
- How it was started
Have a look at the interview with Dmitry Buzdin – RigaDevDays founder. Spoiler: he wanted a good conference in Latvia so badly, that had to do it himself 🙂
Get your tickets before 27.04 to save 50 Eur.
DevClub team will be there, so let’s gather to network, learn new things, look for new job opportunities and get inspired!
Announcement of FrontEnd focused 74th DevClub.lv
Hi!
As you probably already know, FrontEnd conference FrontCon is happening in Riga at April 3-5. It is Sold-out, only few tickets to workshops are still available. But we have great chance to have some of FrontCon speakers at FrontEnd focused DevClub.lv, 2 of them will give talks and some more will be present. So, if you are front-end person but can’t make to FrontCon, this is great chance to meet some of their speakers.
As you could expect, we had to adjust to speakers presence here at Riga, therefore this time we have DevClub.lv at beginning of the month – April 2 18:30 at usual place – Microsoft Latvia office at Zaļā
Agenda for FrontEnd focused 74th DevClub.lv:
- Manjula Dube is Web Engineer at N26 will talk about React Hooks. This talk will cover the real hype about React Hooks. Why and What problem it solves over render props. What are the benefits of using React
Hooks.
(Language – English)
Tags: React
Manjula is an international speaker and codes javascript all the time. She is one of the organizers of React India 2019.
- Ujjwal Sharma will give a talk “The other spec: Internationalization in JavaScript”, covering the intricacies of Internationalization, the ECMA 402 specification, the Intl builtin object and all the awesome functionalities that it encompasses. You will come away with an understanding of Internationalization, a deep appreciation for
it, will understand why it is important, how it works in JavaScript and how to best incorporate it in new and existing JavaScript applications alike.
(Language – English)
Tags: JavaScript, Internationalization, ECMA 402
Ujjwal is a core collaborator at Node.js and contributes to projects like Electron, V8,libuv and TC39’s test suite: test262.
If you are rather back-end person (Java, .NET, DevOps, Databases, Cloud, etc.), don’t forget to check
At DYNATECH we love celebrating life with delicious food. From International Pancake Day to Programmer’s Day with a hotdog stand in the office, we believe that occasional delicious treats lead to a happy team. If you love discovering different cuisine and celebrating little things in life, check out our open vacancies:
– System Administrator
– Back-End Developer
– QA Automation Engineer
Working at
We are currently looking for a Java Developer to join our awesome team.
Did you know that the good quality of your personal life brings more value to your work life?
– Senior Software Developer
– Software QA Engineer
– UI/UX Designer
Just in case the upcoming spring has made You want to change something, Tieto Latvia has a couple of opportunities, go ahead and check them out:
– Test Automation Engineer
– Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
– BI Developer
COGNIZANT LATVIA – Digital Services Firm of the Year
“I have no idea what I’m doing” is NOT your moto? If you have proven experience in software development and look for challenges in a
– Integration Developer
– Developer
– Test Automation Developer
Neotech Development – Imagine. Build. Deliver.
(And have fun along the way)
At INTEXSYS we are always looking for new talents. If you’re into e-commerce and would like to make an impact by working for one of the top 500 online retailers in the world, join us! Currently, we have the following position openings:
– Software Engineer (PHP)
– Technical SEO Manager
– Conversion Strategist (Digital Marketing)
We promise – it will never be boring!
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks: