Are you ready to elevate your career and land a dream job at a top tech company?

Join us for an exclusive talk with Shahina Tadjieva, a former international student from Uzbekistan who successfully navigated the path from university graduation to becoming a Software Engineer on the YouTube team at Google!

Shahina will share her full, honest roadmap on how she did it:

🎓 Background in CS

📚 Academic Edge

💻 Job/Internship Hunt Secrets

🧠 Mastering the Interviews

🌟 Life at Google


This is your chance to get actionable advice, learn directly from a Googler who started in Central Asia, and ask your questions!


🗓️ Date & Time (Live Stream): October 23rd at 20:00 (GMT+5)
📺 Channel: GDG Central Asia YouTube Channel

Speaker: Shahina Tojieva — Software Engineer @ YouTube (Google)

Don't miss this opportunity to map out your journey to tech success!

🌟 Exclusive Talk with Shahina Tojieva (Google YouTube Team)

This Thursday at 20:00 (Almaty time), join us for an inspiring talk with Shahina Tojieva from Uzbekistan — currently working on the YouTube team at Google!

🎙️ You’ll get a chance to hear her story, insights about working at Google, and ask your own questions during the Q&A session

📺 Join the live stream on YouTube this Thursday

October 23, 20:00

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It was a great YouTube livestream with Shahina Tojiyeva on October 23, 2025! 🎥✨

We learned valuable insights from Shahina’s inspiring journey and her work with the YouTube team at Google.

A huge thank you to Shahina for sharing her experience and motivation with our community — we wish her continued success on her journey! 🙌

🎬 You can still watch our livestream on YouTube — link here

🎉 DevFest Almaty 2025 is coming!

Get ready for an exciting tech event — DevFest Almaty by GDG Almaty, happening on November 22 at KBTU! 🚀

Join us for inspiring talks, networking, and tech insights! 💡✨

Among the speakers are Google Developer Experts and experienced professionals from Kazakhstan’s tech industry.

👉 RSVP now: [link]

📍 Venue: KBTU, Almaty
🕙 Time: 10:00 – 15:00
🗓️ Date: November 22, 2025
🎟️ Free admission — registration link

Join us at GDG DevFest Almaty 2025 on November 22! 🚀

🗓 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025
📍 Venue: Kazakh-British Technical University (Independence Hall)
🏛 Address: 59 Tole Bi Avenue, Almaty
🚪 Entrance from Kazybek Bi Street

Get ready for inspiring talks, networking, and tech insights! 💡✨

Among the speakers are Google Developer Experts and leading professionals from Kazakhstan’s tech industry — ready to share their knowledge and experience.

👉 Don’t miss out — see you at DevFest!

RSVP link

🎙 Speaker Spotlight: Sathyaram Sannasi (GDE)

🚀 Session: From Unreliable to Unstoppable: Building Production-Ready Data Agents with ADK

Stop your data AI from giving bad answers! This session is a practical guide to building reliable and secure Natural Language-to-SQL agents using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK).

💡 In this talk, you’ll learn how to:
• Test and measure your agent’s performance.
• Improve accuracy by giving it better data context.

Go from fragile prototypes to trustworthy agents that unlock your data’s true potential.

📍 Catch this talk at GDG DevFest Almaty 2025
🗓 November 22 | KBTU (Independence Hall)

RSVP link

🎙 Speaker Spotlight: Enes Turan (GDE)

🚀 Session: Building, Architecting and Deploying AI Agents with Vertex AI

Join us for an exciting session with Enes Turan, Platform Engineer at IBM and Google Developer Expert (GDE), as he breaks down how to design, architect, and deploy intelligent AI agents using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

💡 In this talk, you’ll learn:
• Best practices for building AI agents from the ground up
• Proven architectures for scalability and performance
• Deployment strategies for production-ready AI agents on Vertex AI

Whether you’re a developer, architect, or AI enthusiast, this session will deliver practical insights and real-world applications to accelerate your AI journey.

📍 Catch this talk at GDG DevFest Almaty 2025
🗓 November 22 | KBTU, Independence Hall
🚪 Entrance from Kazybek Bi Street

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🎙 Speaker Spotlight: Askar Aituov

🚀 Rise of Central Asia tech community. Digital sovereignty

Askar works in Developer and Startup Relations within the Google developers ecosystem, supporting founders, engineers, and tech communities across the region.

In this session, Askar will explore the rise of the Central Asian tech ecosystem and why digital sovereignty is becoming a key topic for the region’s future — touching on policy, platforms, and the role of local innovation.

📍 GDG DevFest Almaty 2025
🗓 November 22 | KBTU, Independence Hall
🚪 Entrance from Kazybek Bi Street

RSVP

🎙 Speaker Spotlight: Yersain Makazhanov

🚀 The new stack: How AI devtools are redefining product shipping

Yersain brings experience from Microsoft’s cybersecurity unit, 500 Global’s Palo Alto accelerator, and multiple AI-driven products across industries. He’s worked hands-on with tools like Cursor, n8n, Replit, v0, LangChain, Supabase — building multi-agent systems, autonomous research workflows, and production pipelines.

In this talk, he breaks down how these tools really behave in the wild: what accelerates delivery, what creates hidden costs, and how AI-native development is quietly rewriting the physics of how modern products get built and shipped.

📍 GDG DevFest Almaty 2025
🗓 November 22 | KBTU, Independence Hall
🚪 Entrance from Kazybek Bi Street

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🎙 Speaker Spotlight: Aleksandr Mezin

🚀 Simple but reliable instruments of context engineering. Gemini CLI in enterprise projects

Aleksandr has 19 years of experience in IT and is currently focused on AI and augmented development working as a Senior Product Manager in Game Development & AI.

In this session, Alexandr will share practical, reliable tools for context engineering and show how Gemini CLI can be applied in real enterprise projects — helping teams build faster, smarter, and with clearer structure.

📍 GDG DevFest Almaty 2025
🗓 November 22 | KBTU, Independence Hall
🚪 Entrance from Kazybek Bi Street

RSVP

🎙 Speaker Spotlight: Yaroslav Polyakov

🚀 Generative AI Code Tools: From Hype to Reality

Yaroslav Polyakov is an AI/ML Infrastructure Engineering Manager II at Google, working on the systems and tooling that power large-scale machine learning and generative AI.

In this session, he’ll cut through the hype and share how generative AI code tools actually perform in real engineering environments — what they’re great at, where they struggle, and how teams can use them effectively to build reliable software faster.

📍 GDG DevFest Almaty 2025
🗓 November 22 | KBTU, Independence Hall
🚪 Entrance from Kazybek Bi Street

RSVP

🎤 Event Host: Akbota Sabetova

We’re delighted to announce that Akbota Sabetova will be the host of GDG DevFest Almaty 2025!

Akbota is a business consultant, career coach, and TEDx speaker, known for helping people grow through meaningful conversations, confidence-building, and professional development. Member of Almaty Toastmasters club, more than 9 years in public speaking. With her experience and energy, she’ll guide us through the event, keep the momentum high, and make sure everyone feels welcome and connected.

🤝 She’ll also lead a networking session focused on building connections and creating opportunities.

📍 GDG DevFest Almaty 2025
🗓 November 22 | KBTU, Independence Hall
🚪 Entrance from Kazybek Bi Street

RSVP

Thank you for joining Devfest Almaty 2025 at KBTU 🙌

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