Becoming a Software Developer with a Medical Background: Demystified by Dr Zuhairi

Dr Mohd Zuhairi bin Zainuddin is a Psychiatric Medical Officer and a trainee Psychiatrist based in Hospital UiTM, Puncak Alam. He took self-coding lessons and mastered several programming languages such as Javascript, Kotlin and Python.

Dr Zuhairi’s passion is to keep building new digital interventions to improve mental health care or healthcare in general. His primary interest is working with Flutter, a cross-platform app development framework built by Google.

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