Seoul Dev Diary

Just received SWAG from 👨‍💻Supabase⚡ @seouldev

Enough of traveling for a while ✈️ My wife and I have collected a stack of boarding passes in 1 year 😅 Multiple trips to Manila, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Phuket, Tashkent, Khiva, and back to Seoul. Business trips, family visits, conferences, meetups, and a lot of new people. I think we’ve had enough flights for a while. Time to stay in our new home and focus on work 👨‍💻 Although knowing us, we probably book another trip sooner than expected 😁 @seouldev

WAYU × Habsida meetup at the Embassy of Uzbekistan 🇺🇿🔥 It’s been a while since I gave a presentation in Uzbek 😅 Feels good to be back to Korea. Hopefully, next time I’ll have a chance to do it in Russian or at least in English too 👀 Always happy to see fellow engineers and share my experience with the community 🚀 @seouldev

IT Networking Event: Tajriba almashish va yangi imkoniyatlar davri! Sizni Product Camp formatidan ilhomlangan, IT hamjamiyati uchun maxsus tashkil etilgan bir kunlik intensiv nevorking va ma'ruzalar tadbiriga taklif etamiz! Bu shunchaki uchrashuv emas — bu tajribali mutaxassislar bilan muloqot, dolzarb mavzulardagi 3 ta ekspertlik ma'ruzasi va yangi hamkorliklar maydonidir. 📍 Vaqt va Manzil: • Sana: 2026-yil 6-iyun (Shanba) • Vaqt: 12:00 dan boshlanadi • Tashkilotchi va Hamkor: Habsida jamoasi • Joy: O'zbekiston elchixonasi • Ro'yxatdan o'tish: https://forms.gle/oGAdXJ6imNiQVTbW8 • Ishtirokchilarga mazali osh tarqatiladi va coffee break ham tashkil qilinadi. Spikerlar va Mavzular: 1️⃣ Abdurashid - Team Lead, AI Product dev team (CleviCS) Mavzu: "From Zero to Shipped: Building a Side Project in a Weekend with AI" (AI yordamida dam olish kunlarida pet-loyiha yaratish). 2️⃣ Mushtariybonu - AI software engineer (Noogi Inc) Mavzu: "Junior Dev Survival Guide: Skills That Still Matter When AI Writes the Code" (AI kod yozayotgan davrda Junior dasturchilar nimalarni o'rganishi kerak?). 3️⃣ Alex Kim - Lead Software Engineer (Salmon) Mavzu: "IT job in Korea vs World: differences and culture" (Koreya va dunyodagi IT ish bozori: farqlar va madaniyat). Tadbir maqsadi: IT mutaxassislari o'rtasida tajriba almashish muhitini yaratish, amaliy bilimlar ulashish va uzoq muddatli professional aloqalarni o'rnatish. Joylar soni cheklangan! Instagram | Telegram | YouTube | Facebook

It’s been 2 months since I got promoted to a Team Lead position. It’s a completely different experience compared to being a software engineer. I’m learning a lot about people management, planning, and delivery processes: kick-offs, grooming, release cycles, retrospectives, sprint reviews, DoD, DoR, DoS, and many more. Also, I asked my Head of stream to let me keep coding at least a little bit 💻 So I’m still involved in technical tasks too: Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure setup, migrating legacy code, and other engineering work. April was probably the hardest month for me professionally because there was a lot of new information to absorb. It’s still a lot, but I think I’m getting used to it. My previous Team Lead experience in Korea felt way different. I’m not saying Korean IT is bad, it was just less structured and less process-oriented from my experience. Maybe because I only worked in smaller startups. I’m still on a business trip in the Philippines 🇵🇭 This time feels different too. The company has grown a lot, and now I interact with way more people across different teams than I used to. @seouldev

June 17, DevKorea #9 in Seoul. See you there🔥 https://luma.com/avj292sp?tk=jbGbWM @seouldev

Back to Manila again! Came here to meet my team and newcomers right after DevKorea x Salmon meetup🚀 This is my country in one week🥲 Traveling is fun, until it isn’t 😅 @seouldev

Back to Manila again! Came here to meet my team and newcomers right after DevKorea x Salmon meetup🚀 This is my country in one week🥲 Traveling is fun, until it isn’t 😅 @seouldev

Came back to Korea from Uzbekistan on Thursday. Moved to a new apartment on Friday. Went to a friend’s wedding on Saturday. Went to the airport to meet a co-worker on Sunday. Moderated the Salmon meetup on Monday. Leaving for Manila on Tuesday (now) Life lately: unpacking, networking, traveling, and somehow still trying to work 😄 I just want to take a rest and live peacefully, but life wants me to make as many memories as I can 🔥 @seouldev

Another one😎🔥 Agentic coding for 📱iOS developers 📍May 20, Gangnam (Specific location will be announced soon) Meetup registration link @seouldev

Dev Korea × Salmon meetup is coming 🔥 📍 Gangnam, May 18, Monday, 🎤 Tech talks 💻 Experienced devs + Networking 📸 Photo booth and company merch We’re also looking to meet and potentially hire senior developers in Korea 👀 Join here: https://luma.com/c49ylpcw?tk=TpF9i8 @seouldev

This year, I’m celebrating my 31st birthday in my hometown (Khiva), with my wife and parents 🎉 This trip is special, it’s been 9 years since I last spent my birthday at home. It’s a little hard to admit that I’m no longer “twenty-something” 😅 It’s also been over two years since I started this channel… and a lot has happened during that time. Hopefully, I’ll keep sharing more cool stuff here💻 In two weeks, I’ll be back in Seoul, organizing the DevKorea × Salmon Group meetup and getting ready for my next business trip to Manila ✈️ I’ll see you around 🚀 @seouldev

- How many laptops do you need? - yes📱

We just raised another $100,000,000 in our Series B-1 round 🔥 Big step for the company, exciting times ahead ⚡ If you are or know any Senior Kotlin (Backend) Engineers, let me know 👀 What we offer: • high salary in USD • fully remote work • 22 days off (연차) + 15 sick leaves • international medical insurance + travel expenses and many more More about the investment: https://manilastandard.net/business/314729322/salmon-group-raises-100-million-to-expand-philippines-banking-platform.html @seouldev

Went to enjoy the 📱 meetup…ended up spending the whole time in a 💬 Teams call 🫠 @seouldev

An online meetup coming up👇 Bepul vebinar: Nega Fullstack-dasturchilar Koreyada juda kerak va mashhur? Atigi 1 soat ichida fullstack yo‘nalishi, kirish bosqichlari va Koreya bozoridagi talab haqida bilib olasiz. Tadbir yangi boshlovchilar uchun ham mos, dasturlash tajribasi bo‘lishi shart emas 🥰 🗓 Vebinar sanasi: 18 Aprel (shanba) soat 19:00 (Seul vaqti) 📌 Fullstack dasturchi kim va nega bu yo‘nalish mashhur? 📌 Qanday qilib fullstack dasturchi bo‘lish mumkin? 📌 Koreyada va xorijda maoshlar bo‘yicha umumiy vilkalar va nimalarga bog‘liq 📌 Frilanser bo‘lish yoki masofaviy ish topish yo‘llari Koreya bozorining o‘ziga xos jihatlari va boshlash uchun kerak bo‘ladigan qadamlarni ko‘rib chiqamiz. Boshlovchilar: Alex (yirik bank servisida fullstack-dasturchi) va Abdurashid (Habsida’dagi o‘zbek tilidagi kurs muallifi). Vebinar o‘zbek tilida bo‘lib o‘tadi Ro‘yxatdan o‘tish havola bepul! 🔗 https://habsida.com/uz/it-from-scratch @seouldev

Part 2 New token limit 😁