GDS ACE SWE Chapter

Chapter Information

slack, telegram, calendar

Leads and CoLeads

Chapter Meetings

1. 2023-06-01

Chapter Objectives 2023

• Sharing
• Learning/Career Development
• Improving our Engineering Knowhow and Processes

Chapter Initiatives 2023

1. Competency Framework
2. Q3 SWE Meetup
3. Standardisation of Interview Process
4. Standardisation of Technical Stack

Chapter Activities 2023

1. Quarterly SWE Meetup

Past

2022

Rationalisation of Frontend & Backend Engineering Competencies with DSAI

Context

• Started in Sept 2022 when given the guidance to identify commonalities and rationalise similar competencies amongst different functional clusters.
• DSAI's Frontend & Backend Programming might be similar to Apps Dev SWE's Frontend Engineering and Backend Engineering.
• Jie Sheng from ACE and Weiguang from DSAID begin working on the rationalisation.

Approach

• Similarties and differences are identified.
• DSAI's Frontend Engineering competency include data visualisation and charting descriptors.
• DSAI's Backend Engineering competency include data pipelining.
• The agreed approach is to include data science descriptors to the current Apps Dev competencies.
• Assessment criteria will be defined by both parties so that there will be a common yardstick to assess staff in both DSAID and Apps Dev.

Endorsed

• Weiguang presented to CDMC on 06 Feb 2023 and was approved in the same meeting.
• Incorporated additional descriptors to the current Apps Dev Frontend Engineering and Backend Engineering competencies, to include DSAI requirements.
• For DSAI-specific and GDS-specific projects/nuances, it will be contextualised in the assessment critieria.
• Rationalised competencies will be owned by Apps Dev, with Alvina (DSAI) as the Co-Chapter Lead for Software Engineer job role, assessing DSAI officers.
• Co-Chapter Leads will align in terms of the assessment criteria and assessment of staff, across GDS and DSAI to ensure porosity.