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Hi!

This December, DevClub will inspire you to bring your ideas to life. We believe that there are no limits for our community. With proper guidance, you can jump from idea to solution. That’s why we’ve teamed up with five great startup founders from Latvia who received more than 4’000’000 EUR investments, and they will share most important that they’ve learned on this path.
If you want your own start-up, you don’t want to miss this one!

Come to Start-up focused event at Monday – 12th December 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Start-up focused 50th DevClub.lv:

• Mikus Opelts founder of Giraffe360 and SkatSkat.lv  will give a talk “My experience on developing a product that users will love and how to build business around it.”
  Will share knowledge of what are the mistakes that we have made in our business, what stands behind success and that includes story of why investors decided to back us with 0.5 million EUR investment before official product launch.
  (Language — Latvian)
  20min talk
  Tags: Business Development, New Product Development, Innovations, Sales

Mikus started skatskat.lv right after the high school and in next 6 years built it in to leading interactive technology provider in Northern Europe. In 2015 founded Giraffe360 virtual tour technology company that raised half a Million Euro in seed investment round.

• Eriks Nelsons, Co-Founder & CEO of Champick will give a “Why Champick failed first market entry and why succeeded in the second? Key learnings and crucial ingredients of high-potential startup in Latvia”
  Champick is daily fantasy football platform with more then 30000 users all around the world and successful market entries in Georgia, Hungary and South Africa.
  Eriks will share experience of attracting local angel investor money and failing once, then standing up again by attracting new foreign co-founders and investors, which led startup to successful launch in several markets globally. Will give his opinion about key ingredients to become successful from Latvia and why it’s not mandatory to be located in Riga (Champick team is from Liepaja).
  (Language — Latvian)
  20min talk
  Tags: Business Development, Case Study, Failing, Transition

Eriks after high school started his corporate career and in 9 years achieved to become International Marketing manager in PINS loyalty program with the biggest focus on Northern European and Asian markets. Since May, this year, quit his corporate career and become full-time Champick CEO.

• Ernests Jenavs from Edurio will share the story of founding Edurio – a startup that helps schools find the hidden insights in student, parent and teacher surveys. Ernest’s story will cover the route from the idea and first unsuccessful attempt to create a prototype to having one of Latvia’s most exciting startups and analyse what factors have contributed to Edurio’s growth. He will talk about working across Latvia and the UK, attracting equity and grant funding (Edurio recently got a 1.9m EUR Horizon2020 grant) and growing the team rapidly.
  (Language — English)
  20min talk
  Tags: Start-up, EdTech

Prior to founding Edurio, Ernest studied decision sciences and worked as a strategy consultant in the UK. He has also worked as a freelance consultant, invested in and advised startups in the UK and Latvia and worked as an expert for the European Commission. Ernest is a member of the board at the Latvian Startup Association.

• Marcis Gogis from Mintos will speak about building a company that has fundamentally transformed the concept of peer-to-peer lending, making it into the Top 3 p2p lending marketplaces in continental Europe with lightening speed.
  Within a year, Mintos has grown from a newly established and unknown platform in the Baltics to a fast-developing marketplace well recognized across Europe. To date Mintos has financed more than EUR 100 million in loans. Marcis will share his “hands on” experience of building Mintos from the ground up, including how the Mintos buisness model was developed and important lessons learned, for example, how they used MVP in order to gather validates learning and successfully develop the product further.
  (Language — English)
  20min talk
  Tags: Success Story, Peer-to-Peer Lending, New Business Model, MVP

Marcis is the Head of Product at Mintos, working with cross-functional teams to develop and implement new product ideas.

• Jānis Kiršteins from Notakey will talk about starting a new company. From finding co-founders, to managing initial finances, to coming up with a product and finding external funding. He will share his experiences in these and other topics, from the point of view of a software developer who quit his day job without a clear plan ahead.
  (Language — English)
  40min talk
  Tags: Start-up, Case Study

Jānis has more than 7 years of software development experience. In 2015 he left his day job and in early 2016 co-founded a B2B security startup called Notakey. Currently it has distributors in the Baltic States and Finland, as well as partners in Switzerland such as Credit Suisse and UBS.

 

Our new sponsor ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– QA Engineer – Can you assure our quality?
– PHP Developers – Always welcome!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Junior Java Developer

 

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

                

 

Hi!

Great hype starts around functional languages and how they fit in the web. In the modern world, needs have changed. Hundreds of thousand connections are not something rare anymore. Needs for languages and tools changed as well.
We would like to present the two, very modern languages – Elixir and Elm, that benefit each other in Backend and Frontend respectively.
And two experienced individuals will share their knowledge how they are using these technologies in production to serve millions of users a month.

Come to Functional Web focused 49th DevClub.lv and be on the edge of new technologies for the Web.
Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 24th November 18:30.

Agenda for Functional Web focused 49th DevClub.lv:

• Boris Goriachev from Meduza.io will talk about: Еlixir in production, for 1.5 years, serving ~ 5 million unique users a month. How we got started, and why elixir? A walkthrough some of the apps, (push notifications for chrome, chat for readers, apps for statistics).
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Elixir, Backend, Realtime, Delayed jobs, Highload, Background jobs, Not delayed

Boris is Full stack (but mostly backend) developer at meduza.io

• Jānis Zaržeckis from Evolution Gaming will talk about Elm – a purely functional language and an ecosystem for better frontend application development. Let’s discuss different use cases where Elm may or may not be suitable.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Elm, Purely Functional Programming, Frontend development, Frontend performance

Jānis is a JavaScript lead at Evolution Gaming.

 

Our new sponsor ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Java Developer
– Test Automation Specialist
– Temporary PL/SQL Developer

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:

– Senior UI/UX Designer – Design the complete omni-channel eCommerce experience for US-based top 500 internet retailer!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– Front-end Developers – We have a lot of HTML/CSS/LESS and Javascript work to do!
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

                

 

Hi!

What have Latvia, Malaysia and Nigeria in common? We all have great developers! And this time, we’ll touch a great and trendy topic which is Angular 2. But there is no fun, if we won’t place this topic along side with React, so we will do that! And you know what else is powerful and you should know about it? Typescript! This time we will have developers from different part of the world into one, united space.

Come to Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 27th October 18:30.

Agenda for Angular 2 focused 48th DevClub.lv:

• Ronalds Zarīts from Scope Technologies will give a talk “Angular 2 – a quick tour”
  Angular 2 has sparked your interest. Maybe you’ve worked with Angular 1.x and want to see what’s new? Maybe you’re new to Angular and would like to know more. You should come to this talk – Angular 2 is pretty cool.
  Angular 2 is full of interesting features, and is quite different from Angular 1.x. We’ll have a quick look at the basics, see how to get started, the types of apps you can build, and explore some of the more interesting features of Angular 2.0.(Language — English)
  Tags: Angular 2.0, Web, TypeScript, JavaScript

Ronalds is a developer at Scope Technologies where he helps build, improve and maintain the company’s SaaS solutions. Lately, he’s deep into Web development using modern technologies and tools.

• Dzulqarnain Nasir from Geta Digital will give a talk “Introduction to TypeScript”
  Today, JavaScript is everywhere. We use it on the front-end. We use it on the back-end. And even in mobile apps. But as the complexities of your application increases, it’s important to keep your code under control before it becomes a huge mess. Enter TypeScript. This session is aimed at introducing developers to TypeScript, and why it’s awesome.(Language — English)
  Tags: JavaScript, TypeScript

Dzulqarnain is an aspiring full-stack developer at Geta Digital, who is passionate about web technologies. He writes at dnasir.com.

• Adewale Oluyinka will speak about React
  Facebook has been trying to convince us that React is the most awesome JavaScript library ever, so let us see if it’s worth our time. We will discuss what React is, the history and the future of React, benefits of using React and features.(Language — English)
  Tags: React, JavaScript, Web 

Adewale has been a full stack developer for at least 6 years with experience in SQL, C#, PHP, Java, Web and mobile application development including Android and cross platform development..

Intexsys is looking for:
– Senior UI/UX Designer – Design the complete omni-channel eCommerce experience for US-based top 500 internet retailer!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– Front-end Developers – We have a lot of HTML/CSS/LESS and Javascript work to do!
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Java Developer (Full stack)
– Senior .NET/C# Developer
– Oracle, PL/SQL Developer

 

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

 

Our new sponsor Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

 

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

      

 

Hi!

Choosing a car is hard, buying a good car is even harder. Feeling safe on the road is important, but if something goes wrong, it is crucial to understand every detail of an accident. This time, we will focus on auto-related technology & development that helps us to be safe on the road, don’t make us as fools when buying a car and also we’ll get an in-depth understanding, how accident reconstruction works.

See you at Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 22nd September 18:30.

Agenda for Auto focused 47th DevClub.lv:

• Aleksis Liekna from Scope Technologies will give a talk “Accident Reconstruction”
  When an accident occurs, it is vital to analyze the chain of events that led to such outcome, especially if the consequences are tragic. Involved parties, including participants themselves, their family members, legal institutions and insurance companies require information and we are doing our best to keep them informed.In this session we will present our advancements in accident analysis, starting with the basics of accident reconstruction and changes in market demands and ending with displaying geographic information in 3D space as well as using Google StreetView API to re-create realistic 3D environments.(Language — English)
  Tags: Accident Reconstruction, 3D Maps, Google StreetView, VR

Aleksis is a software developer in Scope Technologies with more than 10 years of experience in various software development platforms, currently focusing on .NET, JavaScript and ThreeJS.

• Audience is welcome to try car accident reconstruction in virtual reality (see video) during breaks, provided by Scope Technologies

• Albert Bušinskis from Squalio will speak about their challenges to implement Traffic Speed Control System in the Cloud using Machine Learning technologies.
  This talk will be about difficulties they have met on the road, and how they overcame some of them. It will reveal both – technical and management side.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Architecture, Azure Cloud, .Net, Machine Learning, SCRUM

Alberts Bušinskis (Garuda Dev Giri) – Yoga & Meditation teacher, IT enthusiast, software developer. Many years ago he had left a very good job in Switzerland and went to Indian Himalayas to practice Yoga. After he realized that Software Development is not different from Yoga, he came back to homeland trying to be helpful and inspiring.

• Viktors Telle from Myvin.eu will speak about his start-up from business and technical perspective.
  When buying a car, you usually see only half of it because 62% of 2nd-hand market cars in Europe have a hidden history.
  To solve the problem with hidden history, we have developed product Myvin.eu which is a used vehicle history report service. System gathers data from various suppliers, analyzes them and provides users with report and suggestions on particular vehicle.
  In this talk I will describe the product concept and show the current and future architecture of the system.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Automotive, Software Architecture Design, Microsoft Azure, Microservices

Viktors is senior full stack software developer, with focus on technical solution research and new technology analysis. Currently he is developing software using C#, ASP.NET, SQL, MS Azure and front-end frameworks such as AngularJS, RiotJS, KnockoutJS.

 

Our new sponsor Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

 

Intexsys is looking for:
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– Front-end Developers – We have a lot of HTML/CSS/LESS and Javascript work to do!
– PHP Developer – Always welcome 🙂
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– BI Developer
– Test Automation Specialist
– Senior .NET/C# Developer

 

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks: