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Description
Discussions that will provide insight into life at Canonical and into the long but interesting interview process. Our panelists have gone through the interview process recently and have interesting stories to share about their journey, for instance Aaryan will talk about his GSoC and its pivotal role in his work. We’ll also look at the work culture in Canonical, the conferences / work sprints held all over the world and other perks of remote work. You’ll get an idea about the large number of products and services that Canonical offers apart from Ubuntu.
Attendees will gain valuable insights into Canonical's unique organizational culture, the diverse range of roles available, and the essential qualities that set successful candidates apart. At Canonical, we are not just techies interested in building products, but are equally passionate about open source, cultural diversity and inclusivity.
All of us are also actively involved in the recruitment process so the students will get a chance to directly interact with people in the hiring process to understand what skills are necessary to have a successful application.
Session author's bio
Bio for Till Kamppeter
Till is leader of OpenPrinting since it was founded in 2001, introduced the CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft and with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, workshops) made the other distros also switch to CUPS, since 2006 printing maintainer at Canonical, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, doing everything to make printing on Linux and alike operating systems "just work". With his OpenPrinting work Till has many years of experience with presenting on conferences and participating in their organization. Till is also fellow of the Linux Foundation.
Bio for Abhigyan Ghosh
Abhigyan Ghosh is a graduate of IIIT Hyderabad with a BTech in Computer Science and an MS in Computational Linguistics. In college he served as the Editor in Chief of the college magazine and led the Technical Team of the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITH. He has had part time roles in companies such as Microsoft R&D India. He joined Canonical in June of 2022 as a part of the Web and Design Team working in the Commercial Squad on projects such as Ubuntu Pro.
Bio for Aaryan Porwal
Aaryan Porwal is a driven software engineer with a passion for open source. Currently at Canonical, he develops innovative solutions as part of the Anbox and LXD teams. Aaryan previously contributed to Ceph as a Google Summer of Code scholar and is an alumnus of the Recurse Center. His commitment to open source began during his academic career, leading his university's open-source society.
Bio for Utkarsh Bhatt
Utkarsh Bhatt is a Software Engineer in the Ceph Engineering team at Canonical (a member of the Openstack Engineering Org). His team is responsible for producing the packages, charms, snaps, rocks and everything in between for the Canonical Ceph storage solutions. He graduated in 2020, and joined Canonical in May, 2022 after working for around 2 years in the Data Team at Huawei Technologies, Where he worked on DR for the flagship DoradoNAS storage solution.
Bio for Tushar Gupta
Tushar Gupta is a Software Engineer in the Launchpad team at Canonical. His team is responsible for maintaing and developing the build infrastructure at Canonical. He graduated in 2023, and joined Canonical in July, 2024. He loves Python & OSS and has been part of MLH fellowship, Processing Fellowship (via GSoC) and also a GitHub Campus Expert alum.
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