Attending Meetups and volunteer experience, are not only great ways of networking but are also amazing when it comes to getting experience on your CV and showing your commitment to the tech industry!
Donate Code
https://www.donatecode.com/ - Open source website where you can join a project with external developers and contribute code. Because this is external to Makers it also counts as professional experience, and looks great on your CV.
Front End Mentor
https://www.frontendmentor.io/
https://codebar.io/coaches - coaching with codebar
https://codeyourfuture.io/ - volunteering and coaching individuals from disadvantage backgrounds and refugees.
Google - x language meetup and you are Very Very likely to find something to attend
https://www.meetup.com/
https://www.womenwhocode.com/
https://readme.lrug.org/