community.md

Building communities, apparently

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   PWiC

   Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC)

   2020 → present

   1. Learning Leadworkshops · talks · labs
   2. Chapter Lead · Lahore2020 → 2023
   3. Global Chapter Success Lead22+ chapters

   Learning Lead

   I joined PWiC because technical communities are considerably more useful when people actually have a place to learn, ask questions, find mentors, and occasionally admit they have no idea what they are doing. I started on the learning side, organizing and running technical workshops, talks, and labs for students, aspiring engineers, and early-career professionals.

   Chapter Lead · Lahore

   I took on the Lahore chapter and ran the usual small list of things that somehow becomes a very large list of things: people, partnerships, events, speakers, volunteers, logistics, learning, and then more people.

   The goal was simple: build a community people actually wanted to come back to. We grew through partnerships and collaborations across different areas of technology, creating spaces for people to learn, meet others in the industry, and get a little less intimidated by the whole "starting a career in tech" thing.

   Global Chapter Success Lead

   I moved from building one community to helping 22+ chapters around the world build and sustain theirs. My work sits somewhere between strategy, operations, problem-solving, and occasionally being the person someone messages with: "We have a situation."

   Different countries. Different communities. Same fundamental problem: how do you get good people in a room and make them want to come back? Turns out, the answer is rarely just "host more events."

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   GDG

   GDG Lahore

   Creative Lead2019

   Creative Lead

   Before everything became an exercise in calendars, spreadsheets, and chapter operations, there was Google Developer Group Lahore. As Creative Lead, I worked on the community side of technology — helping shape events, experiences, and the way technical ideas were presented to people. Because sometimes the hardest part isn't building the thing. It's getting people interested enough to show up, and then making sure they don't regret it.

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   Technovation

   Technovation

   Mentor · Head Judgetop 12 / ~2,000

   Mentor · Head Judge

   Technovation is a global technology and entrepreneurship program where girls build technology to solve problems they care about. I got to see that process from two sides: helping teams along the way, and evaluating what they built.

   As a mentor, I helped young teams think through their ideas and turn them into something more concrete. As a Head Judge, I helped evaluate submissions and select the top 12 teams from around 2,000 — a good reminder that judging software is much easier when you're not the one who has to debug it afterwards.