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Prior to GoodRx, Jody Mulkey (@jodymulkey) was the Chief Product Officer at Aspiration. An accomplished technologist and inspirational engineering leader, Jody is known for building high-performance systems and teams.Prior to Aspiration, Jody spent 5 years as CTO of Ticketmaster leading the global product and technology transformation. Prior to Ticketmaster Jody spent over 14 years at Shopzilla, now Connexity, a leading source for connecting buyers and online sellers that reaches a global audience of over 40 million shoppers monthly. Jody was the CIO of Shopzilla and part of the inaugural team building the company’s data platform, analytics, and infrastructure.Born in Texas, Jody attended military school and got his degree in shenanigans before moving to California. Jody studied Business Administration at USC with dual emphases in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems.Outside of work, Jody is an active startup investor, Laker fan, Trojan fan, and tennis enthusiast. Jody lives in Westwood, CA with his saint of a wife, 2 amazing children, and 2 obstinate yet adorable pugs.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“With good leadership, good people on your team, clear expectations and clear systems for accountability in a really beautiful, positive way that solves most of the management problem.”—Jody MulkeyIn this episode we’ll cover:How Jody ran a consulting business from his fraternity house in collegeWhat it’s like working for Ticketmaster, Aspiration, and GoodRxWhy Jody quit his job at Sony Pictures after just 23 daysYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Jody MulkeyTwitter: @jodymulkeyLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jodymulkey/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersollSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Eric Bowman. Eric Bowman is SVP Engineering at TomTom, which he rejoined in 2019 to help shape TomTom’s engineering culture for an increasingly online future. Previously, Eric was Zalando’s first VP Engineering, where he drove Radical Agility and led the engineering team into the cloud and oversaw huge growth and change at the company. A 25-year industry veteran, Eric has been a technical leader at multiple startups as well as global companies including Gilt Group, Three, Electronic Arts, and Maxis, where he was one of the three amigos who coded The Sims 1.0Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary"I'm constantly humbled when I look back at just how very difficult it was to create this sort of immersive experience. Essentially the standard is to recreate something that matches reality. It is humbling to try and do that."—Eric BowmanIn this episode we’ll cover:What it was like being one of 3 programmers working on The SimsWhy going into video games is a super risky ventureTimeless principles that helped Eric come into organizations and change the cultureWhy the west coast is unique in terms of tech entrepreneurshipKey Milestones[2:01] – Eric wanted to be a physicist but programmed on the side while in school. His first job was at Maxis, the sim city franchise. Eric decided to join the team for what would eventually become 'The Sims'. [4:30] – After leaving Maxis, Eric worked at plenty of companies including a startup, a phone company, a fashion flash sale company as well as others. He's currently at Tomtom. [10:38] – Eric talks about what it was like working on The Sims in the early days. Unlike today, back then teams for videogames were small! He explains why video games are a risky venture and most video games fail. [15:33] – It took some time for Eric to transition from programmer to engineering manager. Though it was a challenging move or him, it came down to making a greater impact. [20:34]- What Eric looks for when hiring? Leadership, impact and growth mindset are major pillars to consider. [25:29] – Why are more and more people hiring senior managers to change the culture of their company? Eric often looks for timeless principles when managing his teams and organizations, not necessarily new ideas. How can slack and chat ops change the culture?[30:09] – What are the pros and cons of the tech culture in the US versus Europe. Why the Europe tech scene can be more stable but the boldness of Silicon Valley and the West Coast is unlike any place in the world.You can find more resources and a full transcript in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Eric BowmanTwitter: @ebowmanLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/boboco/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersollSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Daniel Tunkelang is currently an independent consultant or, in his words, a 'high-class consultant' for technology companies. Previous to this, he was a data science and engineering executive who has built and led some of the strongest teams in the software industry.Daniel studied computer science and math at MIT and has a PhD in computer science from CMU. He was a founding employee and chief scientist of Endeca, a search pioneer that Oracle acquired for $1.1B. He led a local search team at Google. Prior to this, he was a director of data science and engineering at LinkedIn, and he established their query understanding team.Daniel is a widely recognized writer and speaker. He is frequently invited to speak at academic and industry conferences, particularly in the areas of information retrieval, web science, and data science. He has written the definitive textbook on faceted search (now a standard for ecommerce sites), established an annual symposium on human-computer interaction and information retrieval, and authored 24 US patents. His social media posts have attracted over a million page views.Daniel also advises and consults for companies that can benefit strategically from his expertise. His clients range from early-stage startups to "unicorn" technology companies like Etsy and Flipkart. He helps companies make decisions around algorithms, technology, product strategy, hiring, and organizational structure.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary"Well it started with pretty much the people that reached out to me were trying to persuade me to take full-time jobs and I'd say, Hey, I have a better deal for you. You could just have me one day a week"—Daniel TunkelangIn this episode we’ll cover:How Endeca got started? Why did the founders reach out to Daniel?The pros and cons of being an independent contractor versus a full-time employee What made Daniel interested in search?Why Daniel became lost while working at GoogleYou can find more resources and a full transcript in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Daniel TunkelangTwitter: @dtunkelangLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dtunkelang/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersollSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Caine Tighe is the CTO and first employee of DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. This private search engine is #4 in the U.S., Germany, Australia and dozens of other countries, answering over 9 billion queries in 2018.Prior to DuckDuckGo, Caine founded and ran opensesame labs, a startup consultancy focusing on companies with great ideas struggling to execute them.For other tech roles and descriptions click here.Episode Summary"We did 9 billion searches in 2018 with less than 70 people. We're at 40 million searches a day now"—Caine TigheCaine Tighe is the CTO of the upstart web search company DuckDuckGo that is slowly and surely taking a bite out of Google through laser-sharp focus on their one big weakness: privacy. Along his journey in tech, he’s transformed from a computer programmer to CTO to a leading thinker on privacy, all while living outside of the usual tech hubs.In this episode we’ll cover:How Caine met his partner and co-founder of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel WeinbergThe culture at DuckDuckGo and the amount of effort Caine puts in to ensure his employees are happyHow DuckDuckGo is competing against GoogleWhy understanding how you spend your time is absolutely essential You can find more resources and a full transcript in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Caine TigheWebsite: https://opensesame.st/Twitter: @cainetigheDuckDuckGo: @DuckDuckGoFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersollSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Today's guest is Dr. Chris Bouton. Dr Bouton is the CEO of Vyasa Analytics, applying novel deep learning (ie A.I.) approaches for life sciences and healthcare clients."Deep learning algorithms are basically the reason that everyone is talking about AI right now."--Dr. BoutonAs a kid, Chris Bouton loved sharks. Sharks turned into biology and biology turned into molecular biology, which evolved into computational biology. Chris followed his curiosity and received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. In this episode we’ll also cover:Why did Chris bootstrap instead of raising money when starting EntagenWhy AI is just a fancy word for deep learningImportant personality traits for any entrepreneurHow Chris's Ph.D. in molecular neurobiology makes it extra satisfying to build AI algorithmsYou can find more resources and a full transcript in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Chris BoutonTwitter: @chrisboutonLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cbouton/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersollSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Camille joins us on Develomentor to talk about her path in technology. She offers incredible insight to anyone navigating the world of technology with an engineering background, especially those looking to manage and lead. Camille was on the fast track to becoming a booming success in technology - she graduated from a prestigious university with a shiny master's degree and had experience working for a major company. But instead of looking for a cutting edge tech company, Camille chose to work for Goldman Sachs. Paradoxically, she attributes this decision to saving her career in tech. After succeeding at Goldman Sachs, Camille joined a startup ‘Rent The Runway’ where she learned to manage and lead people. After wearing many hats in the organization, Camille became the CTO. But the startup life came with a cost, and Camille found herself overworked and drained. Instead of jumping into another job, Camille took some time to reflect and eventually decided to write her first book ‘The Manager’s Path’. The book offers practical advice to technical managers solving problems in the real world. It was a success, and not only for managers, but also, somewhat surprisingly, for younger employees interested in management. Camille currently works as the head of platform engineering at Two Sigma, a tech hedge-fund. For full episode show notes click hereCONNECT WITH CAMILLE FOURNIER HERELinkedinWebsiteCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLL HERELinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. He is a developer advocate and a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. Kelsey is an expert in Kubernetes and has written a book about it called "Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure" (link in show notes). When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration. Learn how Kelsey went from tech support to dev advocate to keynote speaker!For full episode shown notes click here Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

In today’s episode of Develomentor, we have Nick Caldwell. Nick has held almost every technical role one can imagine: software engineer, engineering manager, general manager and VP of engineering. Nick is currently the Chief Product Officer at Looker, a business intelligence company. But prior to this, he worked at major companies from Microsoft to Reddit to NASA. Today we will not only decode Nick's new position, but we'll also discuss strategies on how to shift YOUR career from engineering to product!For full show notes, click hereCONNECT WITH NICK CALDWELLLinkedInTwitterCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLLLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kyle CampbellKyle Campbell is a high school dropout. He is also the founder and CEO of CTO.ai, a platform that helps DevOps teams scale through streamlining developer productivity 10x. Previous to CTO.ai, Kyle founded Retsly, a company that helped developers access real-estate data, which was sold to Zillow after 8 months. As an investor and advisor to a wide range of technology startups, Kyle’s mission is to democratize DevOps to help the next generation of workers reach their full potential.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantOur guest today is a high school dropout turned developer, consultant, founder and CEO. Over the past 15+ years, Kyle Campbell has steadily built up a career in tech. It started in tech support, then as a developer and finally as a Founder, CEO and Advisor. Over the years, this Canadian native has worked for the likes of Blast Radius and Datahero, amongst others. He founded his first company Retsly in 2013 which he sold to Zillow in 2014. After working there for 2.5 years, Kyle was back at it, this time as an advisor to a number of Vancouver area startups as well as becoming a core member of the FeatherJs team. In 2017, he founded CTO.ai, a platform focused on developer operations like continuous integration and delivery to production. Be sure to stay tuned as we check in with Kyle Campbell and learn how this self-taught developer built his career in tech.-Grant IngersollCheck out Kyle’s company CTO.AI – https://cto.aiYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Kyle CampbellLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Tabitha SableTabitha Sable has been a hacker and cross-platform sysadmin since the turn of the century. As Systems Security Engineer at Datadog, she can usually be found teaching adversarial techniques to other engineers, sharing systems engineering viewpoints with security staff, bicycling, and saying “I wonder what happens if we…”. You can follow her on Twitter at @tabbysable.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantTabitha Sable is a self described hacker and sysadmin who loves teaching adversarial security techniques to engineers. In addition to her day job at Datadog as Systems Security Engineer, she is also a regular public speaker and contributor to Kubernetes. Please stay tuned as we catch up with Tabitha Sable and hear how she built a career in tech.-Grant ingersollKubernetes Clinic Spotlight on Tabitha Sable: Helping People Level Up – click here to read the articleYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Tabitha SableTwitterGitHubYouTubeConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kiara BickersKiara is a writer and SysAdmin at the Bitcoin company Blockstream. Her gateway into tech and Bitcoin started as a slight obsession with Austrian economics. After first hearing about Bitcoin, she spent the next few years learning how to code with the aim of understanding it. It was during this process that she learned: knowledge of how to code doesn’t automatically translate into an understanding of why a system works.It wasn’t until she started working at Blockstream, with the cypherpunks who work on Bitcoin, that she got closer to real understanding. She documented these realizations in her recently published book, Bitcoin Clarity. The book is a guide to understanding Bitcoin with mental models instead of code, for the non-technical audience that’s been tempted to fall into the “learn to code” trap themselves.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantKiara Bickers is building a career at the center of one of today’s hottest trends: cryptocurrencies. She went from working at Stanford in the catering department to working as a self taught SysAdmin at Blockstream to authoring a book on bitcoin clarity.Whether you are into bitcoin or think cryptocurrency isn’t ready for primetime, there are a lot of really interesting career opportunities and challenges in the field. Be sure to stay tuned as we catch up with Kiara Bickers and learn how she is crafting a career at the center of a potentially revolutionizing new technology. You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Kiara BickersLinkedInTwitterGitHubConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jason Hughes.Jason Hughes has spent over 10 years in the data and analytics space in roles ranging from BI developer to business analyst, business intelligence, and management. He’s worked in a variety of industries and for Fortune 200 companies as well as companies with under 200 employees. Currently, Jason serves as the Director of Data & Analytics at Delta Dental of MN—a role he’s been in for the past year. In his free time, Jason unwinds by playing guitar, running and spending time with his wife and two dogs.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantFrom English major and professional musician to business intelligence and now Director of Data Analytics, Jason Hughes path into tech and data science started ten plus years after earning his English degree. Since finding his path in business intelligence, Jason has steadily gained experience holding down roles like business analyst, senior business analyst, business analyst developer, commercial analytics manager and now in the Director role. Along his journey, Jason has worked for the likes of Horizon Hobby, Audigy Group, Service Now, C. H. Robinson and now Delta Dental as well as earned an MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Be sure to tune in as we welcome Jason Hughes to Develomentor and find out how this one time working musician built a career in tech.-Grant IngersollYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Jason HughesLinkedInConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Andrei Lopatenko.Andrei is Vice President of Engineering at Zillow Group. He is the head of search and discovery engines. This including search science, development, infrastructure, and operations. As part of this role, he heads Zillow Group’s conversational AI efforts, which consist of initiatives around natural language processing platforms, speech analytics, call center AI, and conversational interfaces. The goal is improving Zillow’s business and customer services using natural language processing and speech understanding. Before joining Zillow in 2019, Andrei led search science teams within eBay and Walmart. Prior to Walmart he worked at Google and Apple, serving as a core contributor to products like Google web search, Apple Maps, Apple’s AppStore, and iTunes search engines. He previously led engineering efforts for Recruit Holdings’ AI Lab. He also sat on the advisory board of Ozlo, a Conversational AI startup acquired by Facebook in 2017. Andrei earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from The University of Manchester, United Kingdom and Master of Science Degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantAndre Lopatenko has worked around the globe in his career as a search and natural language processing expert. He turned an undergraduate and master’s degree in physics and a PhD in Computer Science into a long and successful career as a software engineer and engineering leader. Over the years, his specialties have carried him from his early days in Moscow to Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Austria, California and now Seattle. Along his journey, Andrei has risen the ranks from software engineer to Principal Software Engineer, to Director of Engineering, Head of Search Science and now VP of Engineering for the likes of Apple, Google, Walmart Labs, eBay and Zillow. Andre was also the co-founder and advisor of Ozlo, a company focused on conversational artificial intelligence that was purchased by Facebook. Andrei is also a long time public speaker often giving talks on how to build a career in natural language processing or how artificial intelligence is used in search. Be sure to stay tuned as we catch up with Andrei Lopatenko and search for answers to his career in tech.You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Andrei LopatenkoLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ali SpittelAli loves teaching people to code, and is currently doing so as a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. She have been employed in the tech industry since 2014, holding multiple software engineering positions at startups, and a Distinguished Faculty and Faculty Lead role at General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive. Ali is also a software blogger!Ali blogs a lot about code and my life as a developer. Her blog posts have had over well over a million reads and have been featured on DEV’s top 7, the top spot on HackerNews, FreeCodeCamp, and in JSWeekly. You can hear about her new posts on her newsletter.Ali also has a podcast with two other incredible women: Ladybug Podcast. They talk about the tech industry, their backgrounds, and they go in depth on code-topics. When Ali is not coding you can find her watching her favorite New England sports teams, taking runs with her dog Blair, or rock climbing.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantAli Spittel started down the computer science major route in college before deciding it wasn’t quite right for her. But she would return to coding in her first job as a means of automating some of her work and realizing that she really enjoyed it. From there, Ali Spittel, has steadily built a career in tech as a software engineer, developer advocate, and instructor for the likes of Amazon, General Assembly and her own venture, WeLearnCode. In addition to all of her work coding and teaching people to code, Ali is the co-star of the popular Ladybug Podcast with Kelly Vaughn, Sidney Buckner and Emma Bostian. If you’ve ever wanted to get into coding and aren’t quite sure where to begin, be sure to learn how Ali built a career in coding without a comp sci degree.Quotes—Ali SpittelAdditional ResourcesCheck out how Ali became a software engineer without a computer science degree or completing a bootcampFollow AWS Amplify on TwitterLearn more about the Ladybug podcastYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Ali SpittelLinkedInTwitterhttps://alispit.tel/https://dev.to/aspittelConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Philip Noyed. Philip Noyed is the tech creative director at Caring Bridge and a multimedia artist living in Minneapolis. Philip Noyed is an innovative multi-media artist living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His art work represents the quintessential contemporary art movement making use of creative technology that is changing the way art is viewed today. His artwork is often called “contemporary stained glass” and can be customized for a variety of architectural and design applications. The finalized artwork can be incorporated into acrylic, glass, tubes, fabric, wall coverings and can be customized to meet your design requirements. While located in Minneapolis, he has shipped artwork across America and Internationally.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantAfter 120+ episodes of Develomentor, I finally have the opportunity to interview someone who is in the very role that inspired this show in the first place: the creative director. All the way back in episode 1, I talked about how my son inspired this show through his love of both art and technology and how that led to wanting to showcase all the different ways people can participate in tech. Today’s guest, Philip Noyed, has indeed combined a love of art and technology to build a successful career as a Creative Director. As with all of our guests, there is of course more to the story. Philip started his journey by earning a degree in East Asian Studies from Hamline University before living in Japan for a number of years working as a communications specialist while studying Japanese and honing his artistic side. Since returning to the United States and joining the tech revolution in the early 90’s, he has helped companies like Fingerhut, Schwan’s, Harland Clarke, Caring Bridge and Target establish and grow online presences with a deep focus on user experience and usability. Philip has also, along his path, developed and grown as an artist, combining the physical and digital, including virtual reality, into a deep and rich portfolio at the cutting edge of modern art. I’d also be violating my Minnesota heritage if I didn’t mention that he worked as a Production Assistant on Prince’s Purple Rain movie. Additional ResourcesCheck out Philip’s Vimeo – https://vimeo.com/user8614335(Books)Deep Work by Cal NewportYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Philip NoyedLinkedInhttps://www.philipnoyed.com/Connect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Nick Burling. Nick Burling, has steadily built a career in tech working in Product Management. He graduating Amherst College with a dual degree in French and History, a Master’s from Oxford University, also in history, and an MBA from Duke University. Throughout his career, Nick has held down titles like Consultant, Project Manager, Head Product Manager, VP of Product, Principal Product Manager, CEO and Co-founder, and Head of Product Strategy working for the likes of IBM, Blue Stripe, Microsoft, and ACME General. Nick has also started two different companies Stackforce and Illume Hire.Additional ResourcesLearn about Nick’s company Illumehire – https://www.illumehire.com/about-us/Pragmatic Marketing – https://www.pragmaticinstitute.com/ Additional ResourcesYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Nick BurlingLinkedInConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is David Wong.David Wong is a security engineer working on the libra Blockchain at Facebook. He is an active contributor to internet standards like Transport Layer Security and to the applied cryptography research community. David is a recognized authority in the field of applied cryptography; he’s spoken at large security conferences like Black Hat and DEF CON and has delivered cryptography training sessions in the industry. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published Real-World Cryptography book.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantIf you like math, secrets, privacy and cryptocurrency, today’s guest is right up your alley. David Wong is a security engineer currently working for Facebook, with deep expertise in blockchain and more generally cryptography. After earning his bachelor’s in Math and his masters in cryptography, David has worked for the likes of Matasano Security, NCC Group and now Facebook. In addition to his day job, David is the author of the upcoming Manning Publications book titled “Real-World Cryptography”, which you can purchase now in early access from manning.com.As always, we are doing a give away with this episode. For the first 5 people who email us here at hello@develomentor.com, we will give you a code good for one free ebook copy of David’s book. If you don’t want to email, you can use the discount code poddevmen20 for 40% of David’s book as well as all Manning books. Quotes“Cryptography started as a military thing in the beginning. But today everybody is using it without even know it. It all started with how we can hide communication from observers.”“Especially if you’re in tech, understand that if you have one offer you’re probably going to have several offers. It’s not true for every field but tech is hiring and we’re in a good position. Keep going, don’t be afraid to say no or to ask for more time to decide.”—David WongAdditional ResourcesDavid’s book – https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptographyDavid’s blog – https://cryptologie.net/Course on how to learn on Coursera – https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learnAdditional ResourcesYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with David WongLinkedInTwitterGitHubConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Peter Mckee.Peter McKee is the Head of Developer Relations and Advocacy at Docker and maintainer of the open source project Ronin.js. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA but currently residing in Austin, TX, Peter built his career developing full-stack applications for over 25 years. He has held multiple roles but enjoys teaching and mentoring the most. When he’s not slapping away at the keyboard, you can find him practicing Spanish and hanging out with his wife and seven children.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantPeter Mckee is currently a developer relations manager for Docker, the de facto standard in software containers, but his career has taken a number of turns throughout the years. After working on a comp sci degree from Point Park College and then leaving early, Peter has held down a variety of roles in the tech industry including programmer, software architect, principal engineer, front end engineer, director of technology, and senior software engineering manager. Over the years, Peter has worked for the likes of Dell, Perficient, MarketVine, SuperNaut and ClickVine. He’s even co-founded his own company, Checkmate Technologies and served as their Chief Marketing Officer. Quotes“Folks coming out of boot camps or learning on your own, you’re writing a lot of things from scratch. In the real world, you don’t do that a whole lot. That’s rare, especially in larger companies. So I learned how to read code, how to understand code and how to hold a lot of information in my head.”“What really drives me now is mentoring and teaching. I love research, I love to build things. I’m a great starter but not a great finisher. But I found that I could explain technical things to lay people and to more junior technologists and even to senior technologists.”“I do about 5 or 6 people at a time and take them through about an 8 month program. I can tell you what to do, but having someone there alongside you and mentor you will 10X your development.”—Peter McKeeAdditional ResourcesLearn more about Peter’s mentoring – https://codingadventures.io/Books:Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types – by David Keirsey & Marilyn BatesWhat Color Is Your Parachute? 2019: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers – by Richard N. BollesAdditional ResourcesYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Peter McKeeLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Luc Constantin.Luc Constantin, our guest today, represents so much of what this show is about: there is a path for you in tech. Luc grew up in Romania, one of the poorest of the old Soviet Bloc countries. At 13 years old, Luc dropped out of school. By the time he was 18, he was addicted to drugs and fulfilling his country’s military service obligations. At 21, in his own words, he was finished with the military and had “no hope, no future, no desire to live”. Luc had no idea that he would one day become a programmer or be in the tech space at all. At 23, Luc decided to go back into the military. From age 29 until 42, he worked in logistics for a packaging and bottling manufacturer in Toledo Spain. At 42, he started learning to code and landed a full time junior web development role by the time he was 43. These days, he’s a front end developer having held down roles for the likes of Gadacons World and Bioclimatic Green Home in Spain. If you think its too late for you to get into coding, be sure to tune in!If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“I was one hopeless drug addict in the 90s, I got 4 kids, I’m 43 years old, I live in a foreign country. Of course it’s challenging [to learn how to code], but it can be done!”“What is the internet? How does it work? What is Google? The way I understood how HTML works is by understanding how a browser works.”“I was waking up at 4 or 5 AM and for 2 to 3 hours I was coding, learning and studying. Then I would go to my daily job until 3. Coming back, I would eat and have time with my family for 3 and 4 hours. During evening time I was doing the same – coding, learning and programming!”—Luc ConstantinKey MilestonesCheck out Luc’s personal blog about his journey into tech – https://blog.accolades.dev/Free Code Academy lets you learn how to be a programmer from your home – https://www.freecodecamp.org/Additional ResourcesYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Luc ConstantinLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jennifer Byrne. Jennifer is currently an independent advisor, speaker, and author. A lot of her work is centered around digital transformation. Previously, Jennifer was Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft US. She infused innovation practices into Microsoft’s technical field teams which led to high-value and well-publicized digital transformation strategies with top global companies.Jennifer led the fifteen Microsoft Technology Centers across the US, hosting thousands of customers and community events each year. In previous roles at Microsoft, Jennifer was responsible for market expansion initiatives leveraging business model and technology innovation for government, healthcare, and education providers around the globe. She joined Microsoft as the Chief Security Officer for the Worldwide Public Sector Division in 2014.Prior to Microsoft, Jennifer was a leader in Cybersecurity, having held technical, sales and executive positions at companies such as Intel, McAfee and Symantec. She began her career in technology as an Information Security Analyst and Engineer serving US Government clients.In high tech or any role, Jennifer Byrne is an advocate for applying original thinking and an innovator’s mindset to create opportunities for success in work and life. Advances in technology can create as much risk as opportunity. Jennifer uses wisdom gained from twenty years in the tech industry to advise startups and mentor young women and leaders on topics related to making the most of today’s fast-changing, tech-infused world.Quotes“I think you need to find the place inside yourself that actually cares deeply about the people on your team. It’s ok that it doesn’t come naturally and its ok that you have to work hard at that with some people. But however you get there, you gotta get there.”“As a pre-sales engineer you have to make everything work. You’re always running the demos. And you’re highly accountable for deeply understanding your technology.”“What I finally figured out is that you’re not trying to sell them [customers] the value of the product as it is today. What you’re really selling is an investment. They’re not making a purchase, they’re making an investment. And investments are all about what’s going to happen in the future. Where is this technology going? How is this technology going to help me do the things I want to do?”—Jennifer ByrneAdditional ResourcesYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Jennifer ByrneLinkedInConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Amar Ghose.Amar Ghose is a Software CEO, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu lover, marketing nerd and compulsive audiobook listener. He is also a full time digital nomadFor the last 6 years Amar has been running ZenMaid, where he leads an awesome team who help thousands of Maid Services every day.As a SaaS marketing specialist, Amar also helps software companies to think outside the technical box and reach their customers in creative, and often unorthodox ways.Amar has been traveling the world full time since 2015. He regularly donates his time to help aspiring nomads make the jump into a location-independent lifestyle. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantJoining us today from Bali, Indonesia is Amar Ghose. Amar is a full time digital nomad and the co-founder and CEO of ZenMaid.com, a Software as a Service company targeted at Maid Service owners. Amar’s journey to tech CEO is built on an economics and philosophy degree from the University of California, Davis and a number of years working in sales, marketing and account executive roles for the likes of BidMail and UserVoice, as well as starting his own maid service called Fast, Friendly, Spotless. In addition to his role as CEO, Amar is a regular advisor to people in the SaaS industry as well as for those wanting to lead the nomad lifestyle. -Grant IngersollAdditional ResourcesYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Amar GhoseLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ruby ShresthaReiner Kraft has more than 15+ years of experience leading high-impact technological organizations both large and small, and has spent 20 years in the Silicon Valley. (Master Inventor)During his 20 years in Silicon Valley, Reiner was one of the most prolific inventors in the area, filing more than 120 patent applications with the US Patent Office. Both IBM Research and Yahoo recognize Reiner as a Master Inventor, and the prestigious MIT Technology Review (TR 100) in 2003 also nominated him as a top innovator under the age of 30. Alongside were other nominees including Larry Page (Google) and Jerry Yang (Yahoo).Reiner also has a proven track-record of building up and balancing long-term strategic research (Zalando Research) with short-term tactical product requirements. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantReiner Kraft has spent 20+ years working in tech across companies big and small. During the span of his career, Dr. Reiner Kraft has held down roles like senior software engineer, director of engineering, assistant professor, VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. Along his journey, Reiner earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California Santa Cruz and he’s also garnered the title of Master Inventor due to his prolific work in inventing new technologies. He filed more than 120 patent applications over his career while working at the likes of IBM, and Yahoo!. In 2003, MIT Technology Review named Reiner one of the Top 100 top innovators under 30. In 2016, Dr Kraft left Silicon Valley for his native home in Germany to help scale the fast growing fashion startup Zalando. These days, Dr. Kraft is based in Berlin Germany where he runs an executive coaching business called the Mindful Leader. This business is focused on helping technical leaders deepen their skills and scale their organizations. -Grant IngersollQuotes“If you’re interested in a particular research environment I think it can’t hurt to get a phd. It’s probably a necessity to have it to actually get in. Otherwise you can still work as a research engineer m ore on the practical engineering side. For that, a PhD is not necessary at all.”“I took a mindfulness based stress reduction class that was offered at Yahoo and it felt really good having more clarity, slow things down a little bit and reflect. Stress levels at that point were also decreasing and it made me more open to new things, new experiences.”—Reiner KraftAdditional ResourcesCheck out Reiner’s article ‘The 12 Mindfulness Leadership Principles’ You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Reiner KraftLinkedInConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ruby ShresthaRuby Shrestha is a People Ops Manager at tech co., a startup seeking to build technology to change the landscape of democracy in America. Prior to her journey into the startup world, she worked as an administrator at a summer camp in rural New Hampshire after earning her degree in Engineering Science at the University of Virginia. Ruby loves working in a startup environment where she is always kept on her toes and can see the positive impact her work has had even early on in her People Operations career.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantA key part of building any great company is hiring and retaining people that can not only do the work but add to the company culture. Accomplishing that requires a top notch people operations team that is more than just about selecting your healthcare benefits. Today, we are going to check-in with Ruby Shrestha, a people ops manager for a Washington DC based tech startup. After earning her bachelor’s in engineering science from the University of Virginia and two years as a camp administrator, Ruby, has worked her way up the people operations career ladder.-Grant IngersollQuotes“I like to think of People Ops as HR’s cuter friend. When I think about People Ops, its all encompassing of the employee experience. So from when you first reach out to someone to apply to your company all the way to their last day. You are not only recruiting but thinking about employee engagement and also employee retention the overall company’s culture.”“Within people operations there is a significant amount of data analysis you can do to cultivate your company culture. So we use a program called Lattice and it gives us a bunch of different data. But its really up to us to synthesize and use that data in a productive way to improve our company culture.” —Ruby ShresthaYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Ruby ShresthaLinkedInConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Matthew KelceyMat works part time at ThoughtWorks where he is the Principal Consultant for Machine Learning in Australia. He divides the rest of his time between advisory / mentoring work for early stage companies as well as maintaining his small farm. Prior to ThoughtWorks, Mat was a senior research engineer in the Google Brain team where he worked across robotics & natural language understanding. Mat has held a mix of roles across his 20 year career ranging from machine learning research to engineering for large scale distributed systems; in both internet scale companies (such as Google & Amazon) as well as startups (such as Distra & Wavii)If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantMat Kelcey is our first guest to join us from Australia where he resides on his farm near Melbourne. Mat has built a career over the years that has spanned the globe, spanned a number of industries and spanned a number of topics. Over the years, he’s stayed deeply focused on doing technical work, holding down titles like software engineer and senior software engineer. Mat has worked in search, machine learning, big data and deep learning for the likes of Sensis in Australia, Wavii, Google, Lonely Planet, Amazon AWS and these days Thought Works. He’s also a prolific blogger and open source contributor who regularly shares his experiments and ideas in machine learning with the world. Please stay tuned as we connect halfway around the world with Mat Kelcey and hear his journey through the tech world.-Grant IngersollKey MilestonesMatt started work on artificial intelligence and machine learning back in the AI winter. What inspired Matt to get a degree in AI at University?Throughout his career Matt somehow avoided management. Was this intentional?Matt worked specifically on the Google Brain team as a research engineer. What was that experience like?When did Matt have imposter syndrome throughout his career?Additional ResourcesCheck out Matt’s Medium articles – https://medium.com/@alyjuma/the-regret-minimization-framework-how-jeff-bezos-made-decisions-4d5a86deaf24Matt’s personal blog – http://matpalm.com/blog/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Matt KelceyLinkedInTwitterGitHubBlog Connect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Carolyn StranskyBiographyCarolyn Stransky (she/her) is a software developer and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. She’s currently working with the GraphQL Foundation as part of the Google Season of Docs program. Out of the office, she teaches at ReDI School of Digital Integration, freelance writes for outlets like Curve Magazine and maintains an admittedly ridiculous skincare routine. You can find her most places on the Internet @carolstran.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantCarolyn Stransky is a graduate of Beloit College with a degree in Journalism and Media Studies. She spent the first few years of her career in roles like communications management and technical writing before deciding to go to SPICED Academy, a boot camp focused on full stack development based in Berlin, Germany. Since that career change, Carolyn has held down roles in frontend development, software engineering, as well as technical writing. She freelances both as a developer and as a journalist. Over her career, she’s worked for the likes of Contentful, Blacklane, Meeshkan and is now on her own as a freelancer. Quotes“Almost all of the startups I’ve worked for are early stage. So what is a venture capitalist? How do we get our money? What do we need to do to get our next phase of money? How do these phases work? All of these things were things I needed to learn as well as technical vocabulary.”“I wish I would have realized earlier that programming for many is a new way of thinking, mostly If you’re not used to breaking down problems into logic and putting everything in particular orders. Its a completely new approach to what you may be used to especially if you come from more of a creative field.”“While I was in my marketing roles I was trying to learn how to code. I would bug our developers and do things like Code Academy. But I hit these blockers and I didn’t really know who to ask. It was hard to figure out on my own. I knew I wanted someone like a teacher who I could bug as much as I want. I chose SPICED because they were full stack java script.”—Carolyn StranskyAdditional ResourcesCarolyn’s writing and portfolio – https://workwithcarolyn.com/Previous episodes mentioned:Simon Willison – Data Journalism, The Importance of Side ProjectsYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Carolyn StranskyLinkedInTwitterGitHubConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Marcello La Rocca.Marcello La Rocca is a research scientist and a full-stack engineer focused on optimization algorithms, genetic algorithms, machine learning and quantum computing. He has contributed to large-scale web applications at companies like Twitter and Microsoft, has undertaken applied research in both academia and industry. He also authored the Neatsort adaptive sorting algorithm.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantJoining us from Zurich, Switzerland, our guest today, Marcello La Rocca, has held down a large variety of roles in the software industry over the years, including full stack engineer, data visualization engineer, backend engineer, game programmer, and most recently, applied Research Engineer. Marcello has held those roles at companies like Microsoft, SwiftIQ, Twitter and Apple. Marcello has even taught computer science in high school on two different occasions. In addition to his day job, he is a prolific blogger and the author of Manning Publications “Algorithms and Data Structures in Action”. -Grant IngersollQuotesMy main job was creating nice meaningful visualization using javascript. Where there is data we have to figure out ways to present it to the customers where they can understand it very easily or at least get a grasp of how they were doing.” “When I moved to twitter I felt it [imposter syndrome] very strongly. I was afraid of asking questions because I thought I would look bad.”“I feel like discussing things with other engineers is one of the best perks of especially large companies. It’s also one of the ways you can learn better from your mistakes and from other people’s experiences.”—Marcello La RoccaKey MilestonesWhat does a Data Visualization engineer do?Marcello is the author of Algorithms and Data Structures in Action by Manning Publications. What’s the book about and who is it for?How will tech and more specifically data visualization engineering change in the next couple of years?Marcello got imposter syndrome when he started at Twitter. How did he deal with this?Additional ResourcesAlgorithms and Data Structures in Action – by Marcello La RoccaYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Mada SegheteLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mada SegheteBiographyMada leads market development and culture initiatives at Branch and is also one of its co-founders. Branch specializes in deep linking for mobile applications. Mada was born and raised in Romania and she came came to the US to study Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She later earned her Masters of Engineering and MBA from Stanford. Mada enjoys playing the latest viral mobile game, binge-watching the hottest sci-fi show, and photographing Branch events. Mada regularly speaks about mobile growth at top tech events like Web Summit and SaaStr, and was included in Linkedin’s Next Wave: 150 top professionals in 15 industries all under 35.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantMada Seghete is originally from Romania. She did her undergrad in computer engineering and computer science at Cornell University before launching her career as a software engineer at Siemens Medical Solutions. After her time at Siemens, Mada returned to school, this time at Stanford to get her master’s in Management Science and Engineering as well as her MBA. From that base of engineering, Mada Seghete pivoted into consulting, business development and product management for the likes of Deloitte and Yola.com. She then ventured out on her own to co-found Kindred Prints. These days, Mada is the co-founder and head of marketing at Branch, a company powering mobile deep linking for the likes of Pinterest, Slack, Ticketmaster and Tinder. In addition to that, Mada is a regular public speaker on growth hacking and mobile, including via her own podcast “How I grew this”. Stay tuned as we hear how Mada Seghete growth hacked her way from software engineering to co-founding a company that’s raised over $50 million in venture capital.-Grant IngersollAdditional ResourcesLearn more about Branch – https://branch.io/What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture (book) – by Ben Horowtich The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (book) – by Daniel CoyleYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Mada SegheteLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Noah Labhart.Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, Labhart is intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world.Tune in to hear about how Noah became a two time tech startup founder. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“I got into math and started pursuing it but I really started to enjoy my computer science classes. In coding, I loved the creativity and I started building some websites for myself, throwing pictures up of my family and little bios. I learned html, css, javascript, and really liked it.”“At the time there was an opportunity to work for Alcon Laboratories. I had a lot of friends that worked there. Great company. Takes really good care of their employees. Pretty good flexibility. So I was like ‘I can do my band during the weekends and have a really great job during the week’. And I worked for Alcon for 8 years.”“As problems needed to be fixed, we brought on more help. We didn’t try to bite off more than we can chew. That’s how Touchtap grew and we’ve done a similar thing with Veryable. We’ve started with uncsontrained models. We’ve built things as we’ve needed them. And instead of building these intricate systems, we’ve built something, responded to market feedback, and then build it in a new way to meet the needs of the market.”—Noah LabhartKey MilestonesWhat inspired Noah Labhart to get into tech and to pursuing a comp sci and math degree at Texas A&M?Why did Noah transition into IT management after starting his career in development?Noah was at Alcon Labs when he decided to found his tech startup, TouchTap. How did this happen?How does Noah think about building teams and businesses these days?What is Veryable why did Noah decide to build another tech startup company?Noah also has a successful podcast called Code Story. What is it about? who is it for?From a career perspective, why start and run a podcast?Additional ResourcesCheck out Noah’s podcast Code Story – https://codestory.co/Find out more about Veryable – https://veryableops.com/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Noah LabhartLinkedInGithubhttps://noahlabhart.com/Connect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Evan Korth. Evan Korth has worn many hats as an active member of NYC’s academic and innovation communities since ’99 — computer science professor, developer, investor, advisor, founder, expert witness, researcher, board member, coach and mentor.Evan also advises Flybridge Capital and sits on the NYU Innovation Venture Fund’s investment committee. Evan’s work in helping his students find opportunities at startups in early 2000’s led him to cofound his first non-profit, HackNY, to help federate the next generation of hackers for the New York City innovation community. After helping the Bloomberg administration create NYC’s first two software engineering high schools, Fred Wilson and Evan co-founded CSNYC in order to ensure all 1.1 million NYC public school students have an opportunity to study computer science. In September 2015, Mayor Deblasio announced a $81mm public private partnership with CSNYC to meet its mission within ten years.Today, Evan serves on the boards of hackNY, CSNYC and GirlsWhoCode.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“When I was offered an opportunity to teach a course in 1999 at NYU I thought, wow, what an opportunity to get over my fear of public speaking. I get to talk about something I know really well so I’d have the confidence to speak about it to undergraduates who wanted that knowledge.”“We threw the first college hackathon as far as we know in April 2010. Then we started a summer fellowship program where we got the best hackers we could across the country, brought them to New York for the summer, and put them up in NYU dorms. They interned at different startups during the day and we had an educational program for them at night.”—Evan KorthKey MilestonesWhy did Evan choose to get a degree in Accounting?What was it like working as a sports agent?What inspired Evan to leave Bruce Levy after 8 years?How did Evan become a computer science professor?Evan founded two non-profits, HackNY and the NYC Foundation for Computer Science Education. What drew Evan to nonprofits?Additional ResourcesPrevious episodes mentioned:Adam Cheyer – Co-Founder of Siri, Viv Labs, and Change.org #67Andrew Montalenti – From Morgan Stanley to Founding Parse.ly #92You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Evan KorthLinkedInhttps://cs.nyu.edu/~korth/ekorth@gmail.comConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Gianluca Mauro. Gianluca Mauro is the founder and lead artificial intelligence coach of the AI Academy and the co-author of Zero to AI, a non-technical hype free guide to prospering in the AI era from Manning Publications. Gianluca’s roots lie in energy engineering from his University days, including getting a master’s from Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Since then, he has been in the tech space building apps, freelancing and coaching people in data science and artificial intelligence. Stay tuned learn how this Fullbright scholar has gotten past the hype of AI to the reality of working in a hot field in tech.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“The first tip [to write] is just do it. We definitely think that we don’t know how to write, but if you just write the way you speak, usually you end up with pretty good stuff!”“[Zero to AI] is a book that is geared towards people who have an MBA in business management who really have no experience in computer science. But they want to be a part of this revolution, they want to have a place and want to be a part of the conversation.”“Writing has some clarity of mind on what you’ve done, and I like to add some story telling to my blog posts. I just started by telling the story of how I started to solve a problem of something related to my field.”—Gianluca MauroKey MilestonesWhat is energy engineering and what drove Gianluca to get a master’s degree in it?When did Gianluca decide to be an artificial intelligence coach?Why did Gianluca also choose to pursue a business degree?What is AI Academy? Who is it for? And what will they learn? Gianlua co-authored the book, “Zero to AI”. What inspired the book, what is it about and who is the audience?Additional ResourcesZero to AI (book) – https://www.manning.com/books/zero-to-aiCheck out some of Gianluca’s writing on Medium – https://medium.com/@gianlucahmdFind out more about AI Academy – https://ai-academy.com/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Gianluca MauroLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to our second panel on Develomentor. Today's topic is tech hiring as an employee and as a manager.Today's guests are:Aline Lerner – Aline is the founder and CEO of Interviewing.io, a hiring platform aimed at making interviewing and finding a job in tech way less painful. You heard her first on the show in episode 44 where she shared her career path from MIT computer science to being a professional chef to tech recruiting and software engineering. Daniel Tunkelang – Daniel is a computer scientist and early employee at Endeca, the search company acquired by Oracle for over $1 billion. He also spent time at Google and LinkedIn before going out on his own as a, to use his own words, a High Class consultant. Renee Saint-Louis – Renee is a long time product manager and the author of the Manager Mentor blog series, which you can find at develomentor.com. She was also a guest of the show way back in episode 2.Key MilestonesWhy is talking to employees often a better way of getting a job than talking to recruiters?What are common mistakes people make in the tech hiring process?Ways to assess whether a company is a good fit for you or not.One of the controversies in hiring in the tech field relates to giving candidates homework as part of the screening process.What do manager's look for when adding to their team?Negotiating as an employee and as a manager. What is the “pipeline problem” as it relates to diversity and inclusion in hiring in tech?How to deal with 'brilliant jerks' in tech?Additional ResourcesWhat is the pipeline problem? https://blog.interviewing.io/we-ran-the-numbers-and-there-really-is-a-pipeline-problem-in-eng-hiring/Check out our Manager series on Develomentor - https://develomentor.com/2020/10/28/avoiding-conflict-erodes-trust/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with the panelists:Aline Lerner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinelerner/Renee Saint Louis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-saint-louis-cbap-6bbb2a/Daniel Tunkelang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dtunkelang/Aline Lerner:Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Chris Samiullah. From self taught developer to teaching 10,000+ developers, our guest today has turned a degree in English Literature from York and a Master’s of Science in International Business and Management into a 7+ year in tech as a developer. Over the course of his career, Chris Samiullah has worked in consulting doing dental practice acquisitions, healthcare and fintech, holding down titles like analyst, software engineer, developer, development manager, AI Software Engineer and tech lead. Chris has also worked globally, spending three years away from his home in the United Kingdom working in China. In addition to his day job, Chris teaches two popular Udemy classes on machine learning with over 10,000 students. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“Project based learning is so important and its definitely been the foundation for me. It has kept me motivated. Early on I had a series of projects, first of which was a choose your own adventure Brazilian jiu jujitsu game/tutorial.”“For a structuring project learning I would start with something I could realistically do in a day then go on with something I could finish in a weekend. Whenever talking about the self taught route, difficulty calibration is something I talk about a lot. And I feel like its what boot camps are giving you, just in a structured way.”“I think people want to help others if they feel like they are people who are ready to be helped. So its about demonstrating that you’re ready to be helped. The way I did that was by building all of these projects. It’s not just saying ‘I’m really interested’, but showing it. So I would send them code snippets, I would send them screenshots of what I was building, etc.”—Chris SamiullahAdditional Resourceshttps://www.udemy.com/user/christopher-samiullah/https://coursemaker.orgYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Chris SamiullahLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is James Tucker. James Tucker is a developer, husband, dog dad, and former aspiring pastor.Currently, he’s working at soona as a full stack engineer, building out a content creation platform primarily with Vue.js and Ruby on Rails.James is passionate about making things and teaching others code. When he’s not coding, you can probably find him spending time with his wife Megan, reading, playing ice hockey, or camping.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantIn yet another first for the show, we have our first Theology major turned developer as a guest today. That’s right, James Tucker, a once upon a time aspiring pastor with a Theology degree from Northland International University, spent three years working across manufacturing and insurance before deciding to go to a tech bootcamp and become a full stack developer for the likes of Journey Tellr and soona. In addition to his developer roles, he’s an avid blogger and public speaker. Be sure to listen in as we learn about James Tucker’s calling to code.-Grant IngersollQuotes“When I took Strength Finders and I started thinking about my past and I remembered that I was really creative as a kid and I love legos. I loved painting, I loved drawing. And we sort of thought that coding and being a developer was somewhat like an adult version of playing with legos. That’s really when I decided to go off to my bootcamp.““One thing that really helped me with my job search was building out side projects and making sure I had these listed on my resume so when I got interviewed I had something I was really passionate about. I got actual feedback from hiring managers that this was one of my strengths of my approach to getting a job“—James TuckerKey MilestonesAdditional ResourcesPodcasts:How I Built This – https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-thisHardcore History – https://www.dancarlin.com/Note Taking:Obsidian – https://obsidian.md/Roam – https://roamresearch.com/Connect with James TuckerLinkedInTwitterGitHubhttps://jamestucker.dev/Connect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Hilliary TurnipseedLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hilliary Turnipseed.Hilliary Turnipseed is an experienced talent acquisition and management executive, specializing in early-stage startups, as well as the education technology, media production and advertising industries. Companies she has worked with include Discovery Communications, Black Girls CODE, POLITICO and Blackboard.While Turnipseed’s primary expertise is in recruitment, she also focuses on implementing diversity and inclusion strategies along with employee engagement and wellness program initiatives. She is well known for her creative approaches to optimizing workplace environments and policies for the Millennial and Gen Z generations.In addition to consulting, Turnipseed currently serves as a Director for Women Who Code, while also leading talent and employer branding initiatives for digital content media company, Women 2.0.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA word from GrantHilliary Turnipseed has turned a bachelor’s in History from American University into a 15+ year career helping companies in and out of the tech industry find and hire talent. Having worked for the likes of Axios, Black Girls Code, Discovery Communications, Blackboard, Women 2.0 and these days, on her own as the founder and president of Hill Street Strategies, Hilliary helps companies not just hire talent, but build stronger, more inclusive cultures. When Hilliary isn’t recruiting top talent, she is often found volunteering for groups like Women Who Code, Tech Rebalanced, or speaking on podcasts or at DC Startup Week. -Grant IngersollQuotes“I love people and I consider myself just an organic connector. So I stumbled upon this industry that I didn’t know really existed. I did not go to school to recruit or for HR.”“For me, it was really important to link the importance of people with the overall business strategy. So I view people as the most valuable asset within an organization.”“Women apply to roles where they meet 90 to 100 percent of requirements whereas for men its usually 10 to 20 percent. So if you just take that one stat into consideration, your job descriptions alone could be preventing that pipeline from coming through.”—Hilliary TurnipseedAdditional ResourcesThe Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table – https://www.amazon.com/Memo-Women-Color-Secure-Table-ebook/dp/B07L2WRVSWCheck out Women Who Code – https://www.womenwhocode.com/aboutLook into Hilliary’s talent consultancy – https://www.hillstreetstrategies.com/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Hilliary TurnipseedLinkedInTwitterConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitterSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Raz Shuty. Raz Shuty has held titles like Director of Engineering, Head of Engineering, Founder and CTO throughout his career, but he didn’t start there. In fact, after getting his degree in computer science he took one of the routes I believe can make for the strongest of developers: he went to work as a test and QA engineer before working his way into software engineering and lead software engineering roles. Along his journey, he’s worked for the likes of PicScout, Wikimedia Deutschland, Auctionata, and fring as well as started not one, but two companies. In addition to his day job, Raz is a co-host on the podcast Techpoint Charlie, a podcast focused on topics in tech. -Grant IngersollIf you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA word from RazI am a parent to an awesome frog called Ethan, annoying spouse to Yael, Ironman Triathlon and many Marathons finisher, 12 years Software Engineer and 4 years Engineering Manager. I like to talk about culture, and I try to be a product driven Engineering Manager and I truly believe that Product and Engineering should talk more often and the earlier the better.Sometimes our industry is so stuck in finding the perfect solution. As developer we all criticize product people for being waterfalls but we as developers tend to over engineer so much. We tend to always try to find the best solution to deliver to production instead of finding a solution and then iterate.-Raz ShutyQuotes“If you do end to end automation you can have a product view, you can have a holistic view of a product. Whereas, as a software engineer its sort of hard to get your head out of the trenches and to see how things actually relate to each other in the big scope of things.” “Sometimes our industry is so stuck in finding the perfect solution. As developers we all criticize product people for being waterfalls but we as developers tend to over engineer so much. We tend to always try to find the best solution to deliver to production instead of finding a solution and then iterate.”—Raz ShutyAdditional ResourcesRaz Shuty’s blog on Engineering Management – https://somehowimanage.blog/Check out Raz Shuty’s podcast, Techpoint Charlie – https://techpointcharlie.blog/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Raz ShutyLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Edidiong Asikpko.Edidiong Asikpo is a software engineer from Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. She is a passionate professional with multi-faceted skills and experience spanning across Software Engineering, Developer Relations, community building, technical writing, and Open Source contributions. Edidiong is one of the leaders of the devlopement of tech in Nigeria. She is a strong advocate of sensitizing people, especially women about the importance of starting a career in Technology. This passion has led her to play a major part in building communities such as Developer Circle Uyo from Facebook, She Code Africa, and Women Will. She is an eloquent writer, speaker, and communicator with a keen interest in making open Source contributions and inspiring the next generation.In 2019, she was one of the 40 people recognized by Facebook as an Icon of change because of her impacts and strong contributions to building the Technology Ecosystem in Nigeria.When she’s not coding, you can find her exploring the beauty of nature and analyzing movies.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“If you ask me that’s definitely how I got into tech, not necesarily because I studied computer science but because I went for that industrial training and learned how to develop mobile applications““You might be a newbie in tech for 2 weeks but there is someone joining who is a newbie in tech for one week. So what you know in two weeks you can help the person joining with one week. So never feel like you don’t know enough or there is no one who is going to listen or you’re not good enough or something. Just start.”“Being a developer advocate is just an opportunity to do a lot of things at the same time. I get to write, I get to speak, I get to also code and I also get to meet amazing people.”“Some of the things I do is try to ensure that developers who integrate with our product have a good experience. So it can range from improving on documentation, writing tutorials, and creating demos of some of these different APIs that we have”—Edidiong AsikpoYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Edidiong AsikpoLinkedInTwitterhttps://edidiongasikpo.com/press-kitFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ann Lewis. Ann Lewis is the CTO of MoveOn.org. She is a technical leader, architect, and active coder with 15+ years of experience in software engineering and software management, with a focus on distributed systems and scalability. In her work at MoveOn, she in-housed tech and hired a tech team, modernized and upgraded MoveOn’s software infrastructure, created and scaled up new systems for MoveOn’s 2016 presidential election program, 2017 Resistance programs, and 2018 midterm election program, and co-ran and launched a rebranding effort across all MoveOn web properties. Ann sees opportunities for new collaborations between the tech and organizing worlds, to modernize infrastructure, bring in best practices, and scale impact of tools. Ann is passionate about using tech and data to scale the impact of organizing, ensuring that systems of power are fair and accountable, and harnessing people power to hold governments and corporations accountable. You can find her on twitter here: @ann_lewisIf you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“Political Tech as an ecosystem has a relatively small market cap so there is often not enough organic competition to make it so there is a good product offering for each price point in each thing that needs to happen.”“When I discovered programming in general I realized that you can move at the speed of thought and build things as quickly as you can imagine them and I’ve been excited for that my entire life.”“In the early 2000s, I think Amazon’s identity was largely based around having survived the dot com bubble burst and a lot of other tech companies had gone under. So Amazon survived and so did google and Microsoft. They were hiring up all the engineers out of college. There was a lot of pride around doing things efficiently.”“At Amazon, without meaning to, I got deep experience in massively scalable distributed systems. It’s interesting, these big tech companies have so much data and so much scale. Even the smallest system you can build is going to have to handle thousands of request per second.”—Ann LewisYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Ann LewisLinkedInTwitterhttps://annlewis.tech/Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kent C. Dodds!Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he’s actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of TestingJavaScript.com and he’s an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He’s also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and React.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantAfter considering a career as an accountant, some time spent as a missionary and a small business owner digitizing compact discs, Kent C. Dodds has steadily spent the last decade building up a career as a web developer and software engineer for the likes of USAA, Domo, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Paypal. These days, Kent is on his own as a world renowned speaker, teacher and trainer on software and software quality, especially in the Javascript and frontend development space. His work can be found on several leading sites like egghead.io, Frontend Masters and his very own EpicReact.dev and TestingJavaScript.com. In addition to all that great educational content, Kent also is an active contributor and maintainer of hundreds of popular open source Javascript libraries. -Grant IngersollQuotes“I ended up switching from accounting to information systems which is in the business school. II still wasn’t convinced that I wanted to program. But I thought ‘hey I really enjoy computers, I’m really good at these computer things, and business seems interesting.’”“I think that’s what got me started into UI was just that really quick feedback cycle of seeing the impact of the changes I was making.”“Right around the time I graduated from college I started making videos for egghead. My first course I created was using JWTs with AngularJS. And My first month I got my royalty check and it paid my mortgage for that month. And it did so thereafter.”—Kent C. DoddsYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Kent C. DoddsLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to our very first panel on Develomentor. Today's topic is compensation in tech. Today's guests are:Jacqueline Nolis – Jacqueline joins us from Seattle Washington. She was a guest on the show in episode 76, has built a 10+ year career in data science and analytics and is the co-author of “Build Your Career in Data Science”. Gary Flake – Gary is the former CTO of Search and Data Science at Salesforce and is now an independent inventor, author and advisor. Gary was also a guest on the show in episode 42 and 43.Renee Saint-Louis – Renee is a long time product manager and the author of the Manager Mentor blog series, which you can find at develomentor.com. She was also a guest of the show way back in episode 2.Quotes“Unless you’re willing to leave a job and investigate and do interviews, you never know really what you’re worth” – Gary Flake—GuestKey MilestonesWhat are different ways of negotiating salary?Salary differences between big companies and startupsNegotiating total compensation including stock optionsA few effective ways of negotiating a raiseIs sharing salary information with colleagues a good or bad idea?Additional ResourcesYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with the panaelists:Renee Saint Louis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-saint-louis-cbap-6bbb2a/Jacqueline Nolis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnolis/Gary Flake: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyflake/Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ala Shaban.Ala Shiban is currently the Director of Product at Tube Science. He started his career as a machine learning engineer and pivoted to product manager after a few years. Ala got a bachelor’s and master’s of computer science from the University of Haifa and has held down a variety of roles across a variety of domains in tech. Along his journey, Ala has worked in domains like cancer detection using nano-sensors, developer tools and online gaming. He has held titles like software engineer, research engineer, teaching assistant, product manager, and director. Ala has worked for companies large and small, including Microsoft and Riot Games. As if that isn’t enough, he has also co-founded a company, started a non-profit and also started a magazine focused on hardware. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“For me computer science isn’t about programming. At least this is what I found out early on. I call it computational thinking. The mathematical side and the algorithmic side of computer science is the one I find way more important than how you program.”“We founded this website that one of the largest independent gaming websites online and that was an unbelievable experience. I went on to create HardwareHell, which was the hardware spinoff of it.”“We have engineers that are brilliant. If you put smart and brilliant people together to solve a technical problem, they will solve it. The minute you get them together as groups or as larger organizations, it becomes harder. Tech is easy, the people are hard.”—Ala ShibanKey MilestonesWhat inspired Ala to go into tech and to pursue a masters degree in computer science?While you were at university, Ala was also quite busy with work as he started a magazine! How was he able to balance work and school life?Ala spent some time doing cancer research as an engineer. What inspired him to get into that field and what was it like working as a research engineer?After working as a research engineer, Ala decided to leave software engineering for product management. What was going through his mind at this time?What are some of the key skills to be successful as a product manager?Some key lessons learned from working at companies like Microsoft and Riot Games?Additional ResourcesLearn Python online with Visual Python! – https://visualpython.dev/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Ala ShibanLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ala Shaban.Ala Shiban is currently the Director of Product at Tube Science. He started his career as a machine learning engineer and pivoted to product manager after a few years. Ala got a bachelor’s and master’s of computer science from the University of Haifa and has held down a variety of roles across a variety of domains in tech. Along his journey, Ala has worked in domains like cancer detection using nano-sensors, developer tools and online gaming. He has held titles like software engineer, research engineer, teaching assistant, product manager, and director. Ala has worked for companies large and small, including Microsoft and Riot Games. As if that isn’t enough, he has also co-founded a company, started a non-profit and also started a magazine focused on hardware. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“For me computer science isn’t about programming. At least this is what I found out early on. I call it computational thinking. The mathematical side and the algorithmic side of computer science is the one I find way more important than how you program.”“We founded this website that one of the largest independent gaming websites online and that was an unbelievable experience. I went on to create HardwareHell, which was the hardware spinoff of it.”“We have engineers that are brilliant. If you put smart and brilliant people together to solve a technical problem, they will solve it. The minute you get them together as groups or as larger organizations, it becomes harder. Tech is easy, the people are hard.”—Ala ShibanKey MilestonesWhat inspired Ala to go into tech and to pursue a masters degree in computer science?While you were at university, Ala was also quite busy with work as he started a magazine! How was he able to balance work and school life?Ala spent some time doing cancer research as an engineer. What inspired him to get into that field and what was it like working as a research engineer?After working as a research engineer, Ala decided to leave software engineering for product management. What was going through his mind at this time?What are some of the key skills to be successful as a product manager?Some key lessons learned from working at companies like Microsoft and Riot Games?Additional ResourcesLearn Python online with Visual Python! – https://visualpython.dev/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Ala ShibanLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dinesh Shenoy!From graduating college with a double major in history and physics to changing oil at Jiffy Lube while he figured out what’s next to 7 years as an attorney for Aronson and Associates, Dinesh Shenoy has taken, in his own words “an unusual career path” to becoming a data scientist in 2016. Along that path, in addition to that double major in undergrad, Dinesh picked up a law degree from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota before deciding to see what data science is all about. As a data scientist, he’s held down roles for Veritas and now CH Robinson. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“By the time I finished my education I had my feet in both camps. I thoroughly enjoyed my physics education, I liked the value of it. But history opened up my mind to a broader perspective rather than thinking of just some technical path in life.”“Outside of the team, people don’t need to see the math they want you to boil it down for them and help them make a solid business decision one way or another. And boil it down in a quick way.”“I first started hearing the term ‘data scientist’ when I started thinking about ‘ if I’m not seeking an academic career path, what is there for someone like me in the job market?’”—Dinesh ShenoyKey MilestonesDinesh took a year off after graduating from college, worked at Jiffy Lube and then decided to go to law school because it was “respectable”. What was going through his mind at that time?Dinesh spent 7 years as an immigration attorney. What inspired that area of law?After leaving law, Dinesh went back to school to become an astro-physicist. Why choose something so difficult?Dinesh find himself in tech after studying to become an astro-physicist?Dinesh’s experience as a lawyer and a physics PhD are definitely unique. How have they played into building a successful data science career?Tech fuels Dinesh’s intellectual curiosity. How does the ever changing field You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Dinesh ShenoyLinkedInFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mikolaj Pawlikowski!Mikolaj Pawlikowski has been a chaos engineer for about four years. He began with a large distributed Kubernetes-based microservices platform at Bloomberg. Mikolaj is the creator of the Kubernetes Chaos Engineering tool PowerfulSeal, and the networking visibility tool Goldgpinger. He is an active member of the Chaos Engineering community and speaks at numerous conferences.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“I spent half of my time at the company that employed me and payed me roughly half of the money that I’d get if I was working there full time. During the other half of the time I had to cram in all the classes that you would normally have.”“If you have your laptop and it runs for 10 years, you assume it is basically going to run forever. But if you have 1000 laptops, you’re going to start to seem them going down.”“You can’t ever properly test things in any other environment than production. Because the data is going to be slightly different and the patterns of users will be slightly different.”“We want to minimize the blast radius. The number of things that can be affected by what we do. In the practice of chaos engineering, it’s not completely crazy to introduce some of that failure to production systems.”—Mikolaj PawlikowskiAdditional ResourcesSign up for Mikolaj’s newsletter for the latest on chaos engineering – https://chaosengineering.news/Mikolaj’s Book – Chaos Engineering: Crash Test Your Applications – https://www.manning.com/books/chaos-engineeringPast Develomentor Episodes to check out:Ep. 15 Kelsey Hightower – Tech Support to Dev Advocate to Keynote SpeakerCharity Majors – Systems Engineer & Cofounder of Honeycomb.io #66You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Mikolaj PawlikowskiLinkedInTwitterhttps://mikolajpawlikowski.com/https://chaosengineering.news/Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kamil Sindi.BiographyKamil Sindi started his young professional career as a financial analyst before getting into tech.Currently, Kamil oversees engineering, data science and design at JW Player, the world’s largest independent video platform. Prior to being promoted to CTO, Kamil served as VP of Engineering responsible for infrastructure and data at JW Player, Lead Data Engineer at Better Mortgage, and as a senior technologist at a quantitative hedge fund. Kamil received a B.Sc. in Mathematics with Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantIt’s often said that the best way to get the CTO title at a company is to found the company. In fact, that’s exactly how I did it, but it’s not the path Kamil Sindi, our guest on today’s show took to get into that role. In fact, Kamil worked his way up at his current employer JW Player from Data Science Manager to Director of Engineering to VP of Engineering before taking on the CTO role last year. Kamil’s journey, however, didn’t start at JW Player. Prior to there, Kamil did a degree in math and comp sci at MIT before launching his career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Along his journey, he’s also spent time at Nebula Capital Management as an Analyst and Better Mortgage as Lead Data Engineer. -Grant IngersollQuotes“When I was graduating from MIT, I think I was 19 years old. A lot of my focus was in math and I was really interested in theoretical math. But I also wanted to make sure that I was employable long term. So I also did a focus in computer science.”“I really wanted to specialize in quantitative finance. Over time I started realizing that I really wanted to be not a specialist but a generalist. You get to wear many hats and be good at many things, maybe not necessarily an expert.”“I still sometimes code in my free time if its side projects. But for me I’m just so interested in the business aspect of things and the product that I never felt like I was giving up coding too much because I could always do it on the side.”“When you think about your career path, 5-10 years from now how does that look like? How immune is it to the changing technology landscape?”—Kamil SindiKey MilestonesWhy did Kamil pursue a math and comp sci degree?Kamil’s first few roles had the title of Analyst and were at financial companies. How did he end up in finance?Why did Kamil decide to transition into tech?Kamil tells us about his path moving up the management chain.What’s been the most surprising thing about joining the C Suite?You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Kamil SindiLinkedInTwitterGitHubFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ryan Latta.Ryan Latta is an agile coach and independent software consultant. He has held tech roles including software engineer, CTO and scrum master. But there is more to the story, as this NC State Computer Science graduate actually started his career as an English teacher before launching his career in tech. Along his journey, Ryan has worked for the likes of Appia, Thoughtworks, Amplify and several other companies before venturing out on his own as a freelance consultant. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“I always wound up in these unrecognized leadership positions. So I knew there was something there for me but I didn’t know what shape it would take.”“I wasn’t the smartest kid in the room and I wasn’t sure if I loved programming. What I did realize though is when we did group work, we got our groups going.”“I became this kind of like ‘when no shoe fits, you call me’. And that meant I started doing agile coaching gigs within the company and then from then on it stuck as my title and profession.”“Find people that make you better than who you are. Do not go through your career alone. If you need a mentor, find them. Find people who have done this before that you can listen to and take what they have to say seriously.”“My fear was mostly financial. So if you’re preparing to go start a new venture, have a few months of savings set up for when things go bad. Have a line of credit. Life has a funny way of kicking you.”—Ryan LattaKey MilestonesRyan taught English coming out of college. What inspired this decision and what brought him back into tech?After your time teaching, Ryan’s career has seemingly had 3 phases: a phase as a software engineer, a phase an agile coach and now as a consultant. How did he know when was the right time to make a change?What is an agile coach and what does it take to be successful in such a role?What’s the day to day look like for an agile coach?Going on your own can be a big leap, as there often is now safety net. How did Ryan prepare to become a freelancer and what are some tips for anyone considering a similar move?Additional ResourcesYour Money or Your Life, by Vicki Robin – https://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relationship/dp/0143115766Ryan’s book, ‘Land the Job: Six Months to Start Your Software Career’ – https://www.amazon.com/Land-Job-Months-Software-Career/dp/1734486139You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Ryan LattaLinkedInTwitterWebsiteFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant Ingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Taylor Poindexter.Taylor Poindexter is the co-founder of Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to provide a safe space for Black Engineers to collaborate and grow their skills. In addition to this, she is a Senior Back End Engineer for a startup called tech co. A company that is working to make a more participatory democracy. Some awards she’s received include: 2019 Power Woman of DC Tech, DC Fem Tech’s 2018 Power Woman in Code, DC’s 2017 Top Technologist, and 2017 Power Woman of DC Tech. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, working out, whiskey tasting, and spending time with her two amazing nephews.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantTaylor Poindexter is a proud University of Virginia alumni, earning her degree in computer science before launching her career in tech where she’s held down roles like automation engineer, test engineer, back end engineer and now senior software engineer. Never one to slow down, Taylor also co-founded the Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to provide a safe space for Black Engineers to collaborate and grow their skills in the Washington DC area. She has collected several awards including being selected as one of DC’s Top Power Women as well as DC’s Top Technologist in 2017. -Grant IngersollQuotes“The amount of imposter syndrome I’ve felt until the last 6 months has been at times overwhelming and there were genuine times when I thought that I couldn’t make it in tech.”“On the back end I’m handling all the data that is passed to the front end for you to be able to see and manipulate. I also write the algorithms to potentially be able to save that data to the database and then serve to the user when they come back.”“I have several mentors I’ve picked up along the way but they’ve all happened very naturally. And I think those are the best types of mentor relationships because they genuinely care about the advancement of my career.”“While I may have my own tickets to complete, I have to also make sure to be thinking of the broader vision and the implication of the tickets we’re working on now so we’re set up for success.”—Taylor PoindexterYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Taylor PoindexterTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Pardis Noorzad. Pardis is Head of Data Science at Carbon Health, a technology-enabled healthcare provider designed to make world-class primary and urgent care accessible to all. Her team’s mission is to improve health outcomes and increase operational efficiency. Previously she led Connect Data Science at Twitter—covering Search, Trends, Explore, Events, Moments, Topics, and Notifications. Pardis reestablished the Product Data Science function at the company, ushering its expansion for the first time in four years. At Paytm Labs, she designed and built a fully automated fraud detection engine for Paytm—the P2P payments and marketplace app serving India. As an early employee at Rubikloud, Pardis proposed and built a promotions allocation system for retailers. Pardis studied random graph models of online social networks at Ryerson University. At Amirkabir University, she published on music genre recognition and sparse linear classifiers. She holds a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Tehran, where she served as ECE Representative for three years. Pardis also served in the Ryerson Senate for a year.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“The internet was just so fascinating that I really felt like I need to know how this works. It looks like magic. And I was spending so much time on the internet that I had to find out how this works.”“Honestly the problem with University is it tires you out. But it also humbles you to the point of no return. It takes a lot of years to build that confidence again.”“Every time an opportunity came up in the bay area, I tried to make up some excuse to not make it happen. Even though I knew it would be a great experience. But ultimately when twitter came up, it was very difficult to say no.”—Pardis NoorzadAdditional ResourcesCheck out Pardis’s personal website – https://djpardis.com/Management Best Practices – by Pardis Noorzax – https://medium.com/@djpardis/management-and-coaching-best-practices-as-a-list-of-n-things-7a6d9c7f0fa5You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Pardis NoorzadLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Andrew MontalentiAndrew is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Parse.ly. Andrew was Parse.ly’s founding CTO, and he led the company through its early R&D, fundraising, and initial scale-up growth/hiring periods. He now leads the company’s product strategy and vision as CPO.Based in NYC, Andrew is a regular speaker on topics including real-time analytics, open source software, fully distributed teams, and product management. He also spends time with Parse.ly clients, who include premium news publishers, high-growth digital startups, world-renowned entertainment brands, and corporate marketers making the transition to content marketing. Those customers use data to inform some of the web’s smartest content strategies at places like Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast, HelloFresh, WeddingWire, Policygenius, and Slate.Andrew created Parse.ly in 2009 with co-founder and former NYU roommate Sachin Kamdar. Prior to starting the company, Andrew graduated with a Computer Science degree from NYU; focused on distributed systems and web services as a software engineer at Morgan Stanley; and ran a boutique software consulting firm that served clients in NYC and beyond. He enjoys reading and writing at the interaction of media, tech, open source, and startups. You can read his writing on the Parse.ly blog and on his personal website, amontalenti.com. You can also find his latest thoughts on Twitter at @amontalentiIf you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“There was this huge tradition of almost applied research in operating systems and I just became fascinated by that history.I think that drove me to go into the study of operating systems where I could do things like learn about the history of operating system kernels but also implement my own kernel in C.”“We pivoted the business from indexing content and giving analytics to anyone about it to actually being a direct measurement approach for content for the worlds largest media companies. So we turned Pars.ly to a software as a service company some point around 2011.”—Andrew MontalentiYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Andrew MontalentiLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Sean MelodySean Melody has held a variety of roles across a several companies since he started his career almost 20 years ago. He’s been an engineer, architect, team lead, dev manager, CTO, and now works for a small company as a Chief Technologist where he focuses on bringing new products to market in the automotive space. He does product development, especially with web front ends, and has done various back end and mobile projects throughout his career. He’s passionate about mentoring young and old, technical and non technical folks alike. Sean is an extrovert in a world of introverts and loves building things which is why he keeps finding himself close to the code, while still thinking about business and product concerns so that he can advise C level executives. Sean is an avid gardener and loves being outdoors with his family. He turned his passion for trivia and “fun facts” into an appearance on Jeopardy in 2019. Sean serves as volunteer Care Pantry Director for a local food pantry. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University and is a big supporter of the Wildcats.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“We were tasked to build the final size of the organization, like 120 people, very rapidly. Within 3 to 4 months we had to hire all of these people across 3 locations and bootstrap everything.” (originally by Katie Thompson of Rally)“We were tasked to build the final size of the organization, like 120 people, very rapidly. Within 3 to 4 months we had to hire all of these people across 3 locations and bootstrap everything.”“When you’re the son of teachers, there’s definitely this environment where you’re always learning something.”—Sean MelodyKey MilestonesSean was a guest on Jeopardy! What was your experience like?What inspired Sean to get into tech?The eternal question for many engineers often centers around deciding to go into management. How did Sean approach that question and what was his first engineering management job like?What is the role of a senior architect?Sean has also held very senior technical roles over the years, with titles like architect and principal software engineer. What are some of the key skills that you had to develop to function in those roles?You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Sean MelodyLinkedInFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Abdel Tefridj. Abdel is leading the product development at Data Bid Machine to optimize companies’ traffic acquisition. He is a technology and product executive with an extensive background in eCommerce, data science, and software development. Abel has also held roles as chief innovation officer. He is advising several growing companies in their digital transformation and scaling their data science initiatives. Strong background in the Search, NLP, deep learning, Information Retrieval, Recommendation Systems, and Data Analytics spaces.Led a +1000-person global product and engineering teams that build, innovate, and maintain B2B and B2C global platforms across several industries: Energy, Chemical, technology, finance, and retail. Experienced general manager with strong results in managing and growing digital and product revenue volumes ranging from $100 million to $5 Billion+. Abdel speaks regularly at conferences, is fluent in four languages, loves to travel and meet new people. To connect the dots you need to collect the dots.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“Leaders provide 2 things for their team: clarity and hope. I think if you can do those two effectively, people will follow you.”“The MBA will give you validation that you understand the business. Plus it will give you a bigger network. For me, the biggest value was the big network.”“I think the fastest way to learn is not by reading but by talking to people.”“The biggest things I’ve learned over the years in product management is follow the money and prioritization.”“Ask 5-10 customers what they’re willing to spend on. Just go check with the end user and buyer.”“When I promote a new engineer leader they tend get fixated on people’s weakness. They try to just address weakness. I say ’no, no, no we all have weakness, how to we leverage everybody’s strengths?’”—Abdel TefridjAdditional ResourcesLearn more about Southern Data Science Conference – https://www.southerndatascience.com/More about Trey Grainger – https://www.treygrainger.com/about/You can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Abdel TefridjLinkedInFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Deepanshu Madan.“Deepanshu is a full-stack software engineer, Product, and Business lead. He has recently co-founded ProcessLabs.ai, to help technology leaders optimize their engineering processes and ship high-quality software, faster.Deepanshu has a Bachelors’s and Master’s in Computer science and has worked across a variety of technology development roles. He started his career as a Software engineer in Test, moved on to become a Senior Software engineer and led Android teams at companies like Expedia and OpenTable.Most recently, he was a Product Manager on the Android team at Google, where he led multiple product areas for app development tools. Before this role, Deepanshu was a Product Strategy and Commercialization lead on the AdMob team, where he led product and business strategy for Google’s Mobile Ads product.”If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“Most of the stuff I learned in the classroom isn’t really helping my career. But one thing I learned in college is how to learn.““I started looking up product manager roles just for fun. Funny enough I found all my jobs by just messaging people on LinkedIn.”“For a product manager role, understand what your users want, execute, and get it out there.”“It may look easy how I got the opportunity at Google. But I actually messaged hundreds of people on LinkedIn; hundreds of people even internally at Google too.”“As a product manager, I had meetings all day and I basically never got time to work. You have to prioritize really well and you have to find out what’s really important at this second.”“A key part of Process Labs is connecting engineering function to business value.”—Deepanshu MadanKey MilestonesWhat was Deepanshu’s career mindset in the early years of his career and how has it evolved?How to send LinkedIn messages to get any tech job?How much of Deepanshu’s early career was focused on mobile development. What attracted you to that space?Deepanshu left development to join Google to work as a product manager. What influenced him making that kind of switch?How has being a product manager changed the view of development?Deepanshu is the co-founder of Process Labs. What does the company do? What was the inspiration to start it?How to send LinkedIn messages to get any tech job?How does Deepanshu approach hiring?Additional ResourcesCornelia’s book ‘Cloud Native Patterns’ – https://www.manning.com/books/cloud-native-patternsYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Connect with Cornelia DavisLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/develomentor)