The Accidental Engineer

In today's episode Ashlee Edwards of Snap shares:

In today's episode Alisa Peters of Netflix shares:

As a computer science PhD student in 2010, Ben Weber started an annual tradition: the Starcraft AI Tournament.

Konrad Iturbe has a background in reverse-engineering the APIs behind digital cameras.

Ryan Burgess started the Frontend Happy Hour podcast with several friends several years back.

Josh Evans spent 19 years at Netflix and now serves as CTO at Datazoom.

Ed Bacher is a Staff Technical Writer at Google.

Josh Berkus evangelizes and helps organize the vast Kubernetes community at Red Hat.

Floris Porro co-founded Stream My Event to enable corporate clients to broadcast live events online.

Ben Osheroff created the popular MySQL change-data capture tool Maxwell's Daemon while at Zendesk.

Curtis Fonger is an engineering manager at Google where he works on Google Podcasts.

Nelson Elhage most recently spent 7 years at Stripe, spearheading developer productivity initiatives.

Kirk Kaiser is a technical evangelist with Datadog.

Amitai Schleier has helped many software engineering teams as an embedded coach.

Fedor Korotkov founded Cirrus Labs after holdling developer productivity roles at Twitter, AirBnB and JetBrains.

Hamel Husain is Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Github where he champions data analytics and open data initiatives.

Brian Douglas creates explainer-style videos about systems engineering concepts through his media company, Engineering Media.

Darren Nelson is a Systems Engineering Manager at NAVSEA, the engineering arm of the US Navy.

David Waxman is Managing Partner at 10110 Ventures, an LA-based venture capital firm.

Elissa Shevinsky is CEO at Faster Than Light, a startup tackling the field of static code analysis.

Michelle Glaser joins the show to share her unique path from starting her career in Public Health to becoming the Director, Analytics at WW International, formerly Weight Watchers.

Timothy Rowe is Director of TGR Safety, an aviation safety engineering firm.

Cassie Campbell is VP of Product at Fair, the mobile car-leasing app.

Vlad Riscutia is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft where he works on growth analytics.

Adam Gordon Bell is a senior engineer at Tenable when he isn't hosting his own podcast, Corecursive.

Stuart Sandine post-college path led him from his first jobs as a delivery driver to software engineering.

Kat Gordiienko recently decided to take a sabbatical after a 5-year stint at Netflix.

George Arison co-founded Shift out of his apartment in the Castro neighorhood of San Francisco.

Will Ballard, CTO at Gerson Lerhman Group, has learned a ton about the issues that matter to leading engineering orgs.

Paul Biggar has co-founded Dark the tools company for software engineering primitives.

Ryan Harper of Citi Ventures joins to share his path into product management.

Sumeru Chatterjee created the international community CustomerEducation.org.

Both Jamie Pittman and Meghan Combs made big career leaps to become software engineers.

Forrest Xiao joins the show to share his unique story of starting his career at Goldman Sachs, leaving everything behind to travel the world, and finding his way into Data Science where is currently a senior manager of data science at Trustpilot.

Meggie Mahnken joins the show to share about Hackbright Academy, the all-women software engineering bootcamp.

Anand Kulkarni re-joins the show to share the latest with Crowdbotics, the software building service.

Ray Sennewald manages build and release pipelines at Box, the file-hosting corporation.

Will Leiter consults to tech companies at his own Will Leiter Consulting.

Mary Rose Cook educates first-time software engineers at Maker's Academy.

Andrea Fineman designs the way that users interact with the Getaround car rental service.

Paul Hammant runs his own DevOps consultancy, bringing software engineering teams back from the brink of tech debt bankruptcy.

Peter Cooper founded Cooperpress to deliver software engineering content to a massive audience.

Minnie Ingersoll recently joined 10110 Ventures as an investor in tech startups.

Zach Deane-Mayer came to data science from an undergrad in ecology and math.

Adrienne Bolger, CTO at BlocHealth came on the show to share perspective on:

Allen Rohner is an open-source contributor to the Clojure programming language, and he most recently co-founded the fintech startup Griffin.

Allen Cheung has a wealth of perspective on the transitions that software engineers make in the job market.

Aline Lerner, CEO + Founder at Interviewing.io rejoins the show to share engineering career insights.

Itamar Turner-Trauring talks and books have reached large audiences in the software engineering community.

Ellen Chisa has been an engineer and product manager at Kickstarter and Microsoft, before most recently co-founding Dark.