Seoul Dev Diary

The highlight of my Tashkent trip. Next month, I’m swimming with sharks 🦈 I’m back in Korea for a while and have a couple of events coming up. I’ll share more details soon, as usual 👀 @seouldev

Habsida Hackathon is back! this time in English 🔥 Two days to find a team, build a startup project, and pitch it to the judges. You can join alone or bring your own team. Developers, designers, PMs, and marketers are all welcome 🗓 September 24–25 📍 Habsida Space, Incheon 🏆 Prize pool: ₩2.5M I’ll be there as one of the mentors 👀 https://luma.com/cwaixvls @seouldev

Remote work🔥 Data Science & AI Mentor (Uzbek-speaking) at Habsida Join HABSIDA, an edtech bootcamp connecting foreign developers with Korean companies, and help guide students through their AI Developer and Data Scientist program. ✔ Run regular online mentoring sessions and keep students on track through the curriculum ✔ Review assignments, code, and projects, and give practical feedback ✔ Help students debug problems and improve their code ✔ Guide students through portfolio and capstone projects ✔ Flexible schedule, with compensation based on mentoring hours and experience Let me know if you're interested @seouldev

Cloud Native Community Day Almaty 🚀

Yangi ochilgan kompaniya necha yilda $300mln investitsiya jalb qiladi?💰 Kontekstni bekorga bunday savol bilan boshlamadik. Hamyurtimiz Aleksey o'zlari faoliyat yuritayotgan kompaniya haqida qisqacha gapirib berdilar. Kompaniya qanday qilib qisqa vaqtda bunday darajaga erishdi, bunday kompaniyaga qanday qilib ishga kirish mumkin, bu savollarning barchasiga javobni bugungi podkastimizdan topasiz.

Podkast premyerasi bugun 19:00 da

Podkast premyerasi uchun havola: https://youtu.be/PyKa0_0ib6k 📱 Telegram | 📱 YouTube | 📱 LinkedIn | 📱 Instagram

Next week, 🚀Salmon is in Kazakhstan. On August 13, Emil Aminov, Cloud Tech Lead at Salmon, will speak at Cloud Native Community Day Almaty with a talk: Beyond a Single Cluster: Istio Multicluster Across AWS Accounts. Emil will share his experience building and operating an Istio multicluster service mesh in production. Date: August 13, 2026 Time: 10:00-20:00 GMT+5 Venue: Almaty Hub, Zenkov st., 24 See you in Almaty 👋 Registration link: https://ocgroups.dev/cncf/group/cloud-native-kazakhstan/event/yekaqgr @seouldev

I wasn’t planning to travel anywhere until September, but plans changed 😅 I’ll be in several cities over the next few months. Let me know if you’ll be around any of these locations. I’d be happy to meet, cowork, or network🤝 @seouldev

Cooking

I survived Monday 😅 🗓 August 19, 18:30 🚀 DevKorea Meetup feat. Qwen See you there! https://luma.com/ssox1jth?tk=iRaV2M @seouldev

Some people fear the dark. Some fear ghosts. I fear Mondays Remote work is fun, they say 😅 But it’s not always fun, coffee shops and flexible hours. Sometimes it’s 7-10 meetings a day 💀 @seouldev

A short but cool video about how we work at Salmon 🚀 7mln+ app downloads. 2mln+ monthly active users. 7000+ partner stores $310mln+ raised 💰 all this in less than 4 years 🔥 as usual, let me know if you're (or know someone who is) a Senior Software Engineer (Kotlin (backend), Flutter, React/NextJS) or a Senior AQA Engineer (TS/Kotlin), I could refer you to Salmon 🚀 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/some-call-manila-home-some-crossed-the-world-ugcPost-7484879584258285568-fuat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAC3gOPYBTBDgaR1K9sX_rIQU-11bI_fIYpU @seouldev

I’ve just updated ChatGPT and noticed that you can import your chats and projects from 👨‍💻 Claude (not only) into 👨‍💻 ChatGPT. Didn’t expect that. Nice feature if you’re switching between AI tools or just use both 👀 @seouldev

Habsida Hackathon 2026 🔥🔥🔥 Being a mentor at a hackathon is a rewarding experience, especially when the teams you support end up winning prizes. It feels like giving back to the community. Watching people grow, build something cool in just a couple of days, and then celebrate their wins is a different experience 🙌 Another Habsida hackathon in English is coming this September. I’ll share the details as soon as it’s confirmed. 👀 @seouldev

One networking concept that changed how I think about building a career is the strength of weak ties 👥 We often think that our biggest opportunities will come from close friends. In reality, they usually come from people we barely know. An ex-coworker. Someone you met at a meetup. A person you had a short conversation with at a conference. Your close friends usually know the same people and the same information you do. Weak ties connect you to entirely different circles, where new ideas, job opportunities startup partners, and collabs are happening 💰 Many of the biggest opportunities in my career came through these weak ties 📈 That’s one of the reasons I keep organizing and attending tech meetups. You never know which conversation will change your life 🤝 @seouldev

Hiking with fellow expat devs 🔥 I had to learn how to walk the next day after the hike👨‍🦽😂 📍북한산 (백운대) @seouldev

I found out from @anvarbek and @abdurashid that you can get up to 25.4% off your car insurance in Korea if you have a good driving score. Since I pay ~$1,500 a year for car insurance, that could be a pretty good discount 🚗 Well…I will never get it 😂 I don’t think I’ve had a single day without breaking at least one traffic rule. Korean roads are too good to drive obediently ❤️ Of course, the system isn’t perfect and there’s a way to cheat, like using one map app when you’re driving normally and another one when you’re breaking the rules 😅 I got rid of the 빨리빨리 mindset at work, but I still have it when I’m driving 🛞 @seouldev

1 750 000 KRW are waiting for you 👀 sign up for the hackathon (July 17-18) 🔥 @seouldev

Remote side-hustle: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kizzy-kuhn_hiring-korea-developer-share-7480877353645072384-4-9S/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAC3gOPYBTBDgaR1K9sX_rIQU-11bI_fIYpU&utm_campaign=copy_link @seouldev

https://youtu.be/XghLgURx5dY 👀

Nomad visas are easier to get now 👀 the annual income requirement got lower (from ~$74,000 to ~$37 000) More info 👇 https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10801376