Girls Leading Tech Sep Newsletter #5

• August Recap

• Events Bulletin

• Hackathon Calendar

• Opportunities Calendar

• Job Board

• Resources

• Community Members of the Month

• Check out what our community members have been working on

• Our Members Achievements

• Person to Follow

• What to do Next?

• HackAura: We organized HackAura, our flagship 24hrs virtual hackathon which was a huge success. 1700+ hackers, 400+ team joined us and 150+ projects were shipped. Having $25k+ prize pool and 45+ community partners. We concluded it by shooting 20 virtual podcasts and 3 amazing sponsor workshops. Results will be announced around 20th October.

• Twitter Spaces: We organized 14 super valuable twitter spaces and today we achieved the milestone of 400 followers :)

• We organized 25+ Live mentorship sessions on YouTube and had livestreamed for 24hrs during our hackathon and recorded 11 podcasts with our hackers and organisers.

Metamorphosis: https://metamorphosis.octaloop.com/

India Blockchain Week: https://indiablockchainweek.com/

Civo Navigate: https://www.civo.com/navigate/india/2025

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1. Amazon ML Challenge - Amazon ML Challenge is a two-stage competition where students from all engineering campuses across India will get a unique opportunity to work on Amazon’s dataset to bring in fresh ideas and build innovative solutions for a real-world problem statement. The top three winning teams will receive cash prizes and certificates.

2. HackSpire [31st Oct 2025 | Rajpur] : https://hackspire25.devfolio.co/

3. HackNITR 7.0 [1st Nov 2025 | Rourkela] - https://hacknitr7.devfolio.co/

4. Hack N Pitch [7 Nov 2025 | Kolkata] - https://hackandpitch.devfolio.co/

5. Base Builder [1st Oct - 17th Oct | Online] - https://base-batches-startup-track.devfolio.co/overview

6. Aptos Winterschool [25 Oct - 31 Oct | New Delhi] - https://aptos-winterschool.devfolio.co/overview

7. Void Hackathon [28th Oct - 29th Oct | Chennai] - https://voidv1.devfolio.co/

8. HackCBS 8.0 [8 Nov - 9 Nov] - https://hackcbs.tech/

1. Codess Cafe Mentorship - Applications for the 13th intake of the Codess.Cafe Mentorship Program are now OPEN!

2. Amazon Future Engineer Program - You can receive a scholarship of ₹2,00,000 (₹50,000 per year) toward an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering or related fields. Selected Amazon Future Engineer scholars will also receive a laptop, technical training, and a potential internship opportunity at Amazon to gain hands-on work experience and industry exposure.

   Apply here!

1. Company Name: Google

   Role : Software Engineer, University Grad

   Batch : 2026 passouts

   Link: Apply Now

2. Company name: Rolls Royce

   Role : SDE Internship (Embedded)

   Batch: 2026/27 pass-outs

   Link: Apply Now

3. Company Name : Microsoft

   Role : Software Engineer

   Batch: 2024/23 passouts

   Link

4. Company Name: Wipro Limited

   Role: Developer

   Salary Package: 5-9 LPA

   Apply Now

   DEVOPS Jobs

   1. Check out this job at Citi

   2. Check out this job at NVIDIA

   3. Check out this job at Emirates

   4. Check out this job at Better Software

   5. Check out this job at DigiHelic Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Find below a curated list of articles, videos and tools to help you learn, grow and stay ahead in your tech journey.

emmabostian/developer-portfolios: A list of developer portfolios for your inspiration https://github.com/emmabostian/developer-portfolios - We’re grateful to our community member for sharing this resource with us.

Videos:

1. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback.

2. Semantic Segmentation.

Articles:

1. Overfitting saviors → L1 and L2 regularization

2. The art of minimalism: Lessons from Fluent UI and Apple Design for Modern Interfaces - Written by Simran Nagekar, core member of Girls Leading Tech.

Tools:

1. Napkin AI - Napkin helps you transform your existing text content into visuals like diagrams, charts, scenes, and images. Think of it as having a personal visual expert right at your fingertips, ready to bring your ideas to life.

Tamanna Grover - She recently secured off campus SDE Intern role at Amazon and has selflessly helped 50+ girls of our community by guiding and mentoring them.

LinkedIn is filled with creators sharing valuable resources, roadmaps, and insights. Finding the right creators based on your interests—and carefully utilizing their content—can significantly boost your development journey.

Ruchi Bhatia : Ruchi Bhatia is a Computer Engineer with a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently serves as a Product Marketing Manager at Amazon Web Services, driving awareness, engagement, and adoption of AI infrastructure solutions including Trainium and Inferentia.

Sahil Bloom: Sahil Bloom is the New York Times Bestselling author of The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life. He is an inspirational writer and entrepreneur, captivating millions of people every week through his book, social insights, and bi-weekly newsletter, The Curiosity Chronicle.

Narayani Gurunathan: A recruitment leader who spent 14+ years at PlaceNet Consultants Pvt. Ltd., driving client-centric hiring strategies across IT, Engineering, EPC, and Automotive industries.

1. Check out the portfolio website made by Rabdeep Kaur Badwal.

   Link

2. Meetaiva - Welcome to the Meetaiva community—where future-ready professionals are being built every single day.

   Developed by Kushi and team.

3. Meme Buddy - Memer Buddy is your personal meme-generator sidekick. It uses AI to whip up funny, context-aware memes in seconds. Whether you’re bored, stressed, or just want to roast your friend, Memer Buddy delivers the right meme at the right moment.

4. EchoMatch- Dating Without Swiping

   Tired of swiping fatigue? Echo Match is the next-generation dating app that skips the endless superficial photos and focuses on matching based on deep compatibility.

5. LyricLens

6. PrepPal - PrepPal creates your dynamic roadmap, curates resources, and keeps you on track to achieve your goals.

   Our member, Ishita Soni, is the co founder of this startup.

   Join the waitlist - https://www.preppal.live/

7. Focus Fairy – Your Magical Productivity Buddy!

   Check out the post here

8. Real Time Public Transportation Tracking for Small Cities - Developed by Laasya Reddy.

9. STASH - IGDTUW Resource Portal, your one-stop hub created by seniors for juniors to access semester-wise notes, PYQs, books, and much more — all organized branch-wise to make your studies easier and more effective!

   Developed by Team STASH.

   Check out the portal!

10. Our community member, Harshini Nomula, worked on developing a research agent using Langgraph.

    Check out the project!

1. Our community member, Kanupriya Varshney, and her team were selected in the internal hackathon held at her college for SIH 2025.

2. We are excited to share that our community member, Rupinder Kaur, has been selected for the prestigious McKinsey Forward Program.

3. We are excited to share that our community member, Devananditha V, has been selected for the prestigious McKinsey Forward Program.

4. We are excited to share that our community member, Shruti Keshri, has been selected for the prestigious McKinsey Forward Program.

5. We’re thrilled to announce that our community member, Shalvi Rajpura, has been selected as the GDG On Campus Organizer at L.D. College of Engineering.

6. We’re excited to announce that our community member, Kanupriya Varshney, was a semi-finalist in Flipkart GRID 7.0.

7. We’re thrilled to announce that our community member, Archita Saha, has scored 99.48 percentile (top 1%) in Naukri Campus Young Turks 2025 — one of India’s largest campus skill contests with over 5.1 lakh+ participants.

8. Our community member, Lotla Yamini, recently graduated from SheFi Season 14.

   Check out her post

9. Bhavya Bharadwaj - Second Runner-Up 🥉 at the 𝐆𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨:𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧! by TensorFlow User Group Ghaziabad (TFUG Ghaziabad).

10. We’re excited to announce that our community member, Sharavni Dhuri, has been selected as the Content Team Lead at DevSphere India.

11. We’re excited to announce that our community member, Shrestha Sharan, won 2nd place at Hack4Bihar.

    Check out her post!

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