My TopCoder Journey - How I reinvented myself as a Developer - Gaurav Kheterpal

1. My TopCoder Journey – How I Re-invented
myself as a developer?
Gaurav Kheterpal
@talesforce

3. AGENDA
Who am I?
How I landed on TopCoder?
The Journey So Far!
What’s in it for you?
What’s next?

4. Who am I?
BITS Pilani Alumni with 15 years of industry
experience
Past stints include Sun Microsystems, Alcatel-Lucent,
Siemens, Conexant
In love with technology and passionate about
learning!
Mobile & Cloud Evangelist

5. Who am I?

6. How I landed on TopCoder?

7. How I landed at TopCoder?
Learn new technologies!
Brush up my existing skills!
Compete against the best of the best!
A bit of extra cash doesn’t hurt 

8. The Journey So Far!
January 2012 – Signed up
Won my 1st challenge!

9. The Journey So Far!
January 2013 – 50 Wins
Learnt Swift, node.js, Improved existing Android,
Objective-C, Salesforce Skills
Learnt there is more to PhotoShop beyond cropping
images, developed a different perspective towards
UI/UX

10. The Journey So Far!
January 2014 – 93 Wins
Learnt Ruby on Rails, ‘R’
Prize money – pay off loans, gadget frenzy and
some noble causes

11. The Journey So Far!
Sep 2014 – Nominated to Community Advisory Board

12. The Journey So Far!
Nov 2014 – Won a Trip to TCO14 Finals

13. What’s In It for You?
Unparalleled Learning Opportunity
Compete with the best!
Polish your skills!
Break the barriers!

14. What’s Next?
Sign Up!
Start competing!
Do {
Learn from the feedback!
Try!
Try! Try till you succeed}
While (!success)

15. What’s Next?
Got Questions?
Thank You!