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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)

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Cornelia Davis. As the Chief Technology Officer at Weaveworks, Cornelia Davis is responsible for the company’s technology strategy so as to aid enterprises who are transforming their business through the leverage of cloud computing platforms. Cornelia cut her teeth in the space of modern application platforms at Pivotal where she was on the teams that brought Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Pivotal’s PaaS), various data products and Pivotal Container Service (Pivotal’s Kubernetes service) to market. She is the author of the book Cloud Native Patterns: Designing Change-tolerant Software.An industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms, Cornelia holds the B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and further studied theory of computing and programming languages at Indiana University.When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“Those were the algorithms we were building in 1990 and are now running on this phone, this supercomputer you have in your pocket. We were building those algorithms when I started my career.”“I’m a change junkie. I need change all the time. That is why it’s so brilliant that I landed in a career like I did. it’s always changing!”“I would say 80% of my motivation of writing this book is just being able to take what I had been teaching to individual customers and be able to teach that to a broader set of people.”“What I’m really talking about is redundancy of interaction because redundancy is a big part of what you do in the cloud. You have multiple instances of your running programs so if one of them goes down you still have another one and the load balancer will just shift over to that.”—Cornelia DavisAdditional 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 IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is David Glick.David Glick is the CTO of the FLEXE fulfillment technology platform. He is responsible for the design and development. Before FLEXE, he spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, including five years as the VP of Fulfillment Technology, where he oversaw the development and functionality of the technology within Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the technology for Amazon’s transportationIf you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usA note from GrantIf you’ve ever wondered what the technology behind the scenes of some of today’s largest retailers looks like, you’re going to want to tune in as we catch up with Dave Glick, the CTO of Flexe, a warehousing and logistics company. After getting his PhD from UNC Chapel Hill (Go Heels) in physics — I think this is our 3rd physicist turned technologist — Dave spent 20 years at Amazon building out their fulfillment and transportation systems, amongst a variety of other roles throughout the company, before leaving to join Flexe as their Chief Technology Officer. When Dave is not making sure your order arrives on time, he holds down several advisory and humanitarian roles, including being a board member for Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking. We will be right back as we catch up with Dave Glick! -Grant IngersollQuotes“I ended up having to deal with pricing errors. We went through the process of setting prices on promotions automatically and manually. And what we found was that every time a human was involved, defects were injected.”“We were able to reduce pricing errors by 90 percent year over year.”“Put the engineer close to the customer. Thats the number 1 piece of advice I’d have for an engineering leader.”“You’re basically automating the walking. If you think about automating the robot arm that picks an item out of a bin, that is a super hard problem, and no one has ever cracked the code at scale for that. But if you think about picking up a 300 pound pod and bringing it to a human, that is super easy. Robots are really good at that.”—David GlickAdditional ResourcesLearn more about FLEXE – https://www.flexe.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 Dan PapandreaLinkedInTwitterGitHubFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dan Papandrea. Dan “POP” Papandrea is the Field CTO for Sysdig, a cloud-native security and visibility platform. Dan became a tech sales engineer after starting his tech career in tech support and IT. POP spends his days learning and contributing to the orchestration and container ecosystem. POP is the host of the hit podcast The POPCAST by Dan POP which explores the leaders and creators and stories behind the code. twitter: @popcastpopIf you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“I moved over to Advent SS&C. I basically started there in tech support and I worked my way up to the director of IT of the east coast and Europe.”“When I started we were at 5 hedge funds and then we grew out to 499 of the 500 largest hedge funds in the world.”“There’s gotta be this love of humility and empathy for the people that you are selling a software or a service to. I never look at myself like I’m selling anything. It’s ‘what can I do to help the customer get to their goals easier’? What can I do to help them go see their children?”—Dan PapandreaKey MilestonesWhat inspired Dan Papandrea to get into tech?While at SS&C Advent, Dan switched jobs to tech sales engineer. What does a sales engineer do on the day to day?How does compensation work for a sales engineer?These days Dan is a Field Chief Technologist. What does this role consist of?How does one build a sales engineering team?Dan also created the hit podcast – PopCast. What was the inspiration behind the show?Additional Resources5 Rules to be a Solution(ist) by Dan Papandrea on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-solutionists-salesfield-engineers-5-rules-thumb-dan-papandrea/Listen to Dan’s podcast ‘Popcast’ on Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-popcast-with-dan-pop/id1503966242You 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 Dan PapandreaLinkedInTwitterGitHubFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Boris PaskhaverBoris Paskhaver is a New York City-based software engineer, author, and consultant. He’s also been an online educator on Udemy since 2016.After graduating from New York University in 2013 with a degree in Business Economics and Marketing, Boris worked as a business analyst, systems administrator, and data analyst for a variety of companies including a digital marketing agency, a financial services firm, and an international tech powerhouse. At one of those roles, he was fortunate enough to be challenged to build several projects with Python and JavaScript. A small work interest quickly blossomed into a passionate weekend hobby. Eventually, Boris left his former role to complete App Academy, a rigorous full-stack web development bootcamp in NYC. The rest is history.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“A lot of times I would start with excel and think about something I would do typically in excel and try to replicate it in python and pandas““I wanted to go to the hardest bootcamp and I chose App Academy because it had the lowest admission rate. I wanted to invest fully.”“App Academy took a percentage of the first year’s salary rather than charge a huge tuition fee up front. After 4 years in college and 200K in debt I was not eager to invest in educational experience again with that model. I wanted someone who was willing to invest in me.”“Bootcamp was harder than being an engineer on a day to day basis”“Pandas is excel on steroids. It allows you to do the same operations you do in excel. When you’re dealing with large datasets in excel your limit is about 1 million rows. And even when you have more than about 3000, it begins to slow down.“—Boris PaskhaverKey MilestonesBoris accidentally got into Python programming while at Indeed.com. Boris actually landed his first couple of jobs in tech before doing a bootcamp. Why did Boris decide to enroll in App Academy Bootcamp?How did Boris get involved as an online educator on Udemy?Boris also wrote a book – “Pandas in Action”, from Manning PublicationsAdditional ResourcesBoris’s book “Pandas in Action” from Manning Publications – Data Analysis with Python by Wesley Kinney – https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/python-for-data/9781491957653/Check out App Academy Bootcamp – https://www.appacademy.io/bootcamp-prep?location=san-franciscoYou 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 Boris PaskhaverLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Veljko Krunic! Veljko Krunic is a data science consultant, has a computer science PhD, and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Today’s topic – How To Align AI With Your Business?If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“Almost any engineer has a privilege of creating something that was not there before and that was something very important for me.”“It’s not enough to just make an engineering product. You need to figure out how to get the biggest amount of people possible to use it. Otherwise that product cannot make a difference in their life.”If you’re facing a situation where you’re interested in something really far away, I believe that is what academia is for. If you are working on something that is immediately commercially viable, I believe you should start a company. —Veljko KrunicKey MilestonesVeljko started his career in the former Yugoslavia. Why did he decide to move to the states?You’ve gotten, as I like to say, “all the degrees”. What motivated him to pursue higher education?Veljko had a series of shorter term roles, a year or two here and there before landing on your own and making a go as an independent consultant. How did those roles lead to him becoming a constant?“Succeeding with AI”. What’s it about and who’s it for?How to align AI with your businessLike several of our recent guests, Veljko is a Manning Publications author And just like those guests, we are going to do a give away! The first 5 people who retweet or reshare this episode on Twitter or LinkedIn and tag the Develomentor handle or me will receive a code good for one free ebook of “Succeeding with AI” by Veljko. Additional ResourcesBuy Veljko’s book “Succedding With AI” by Manning Publications – https://www.manning.com/books/succeeding-with-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 Veljko KrunicLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hayden SimmonsHayden has been working in emerging market fintech for most of his career. He graduated from Colorado College in 2007, with an Economic Development major and Spanish minor, having written his thesis on the impact of collectivized remittances in rural Mexico. He spent the early part of his career on the non-profit side, connecting venture-backed remittance startups with immigrant communities for product-market fit testing.Hayden later spent 4 years at Juvo, managing strategic partnerships across LatAm, Africa and Southeast Asia. He then helped Migo expand from Nigeria into Latin America. Currently, Hayden is working on a variety of strategy and BD projects supporting Facebook’s global blockchain-powered mobile money project (Libra).He is actively advising a number of early-stage African fintechs, is a fledgling angel investor, and recently joined Lateral Capital as a Venture Partner. In his spare time, he enjoys rock climbing, guitar and tending to his agave farm.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“The people you are trying to serve might have a smart phone, but maybe it has no balance. And they may be a dozen miles from the nearest ATM. That backdrop gets people that are interested in emerging markets very excited. How do you piece together all of these challenges to bring financial services to the last mile of consumers?““When you’re young and have the time, seek out adventures and take risks and have as many interesting experiences as possible because its all going to be valuable.”“For emerging markets there’s nothing that can replace on the ground experience and understanding people and the products and the landscape. Just studying in your MBA is a fraction of the value you get from spending a month on the ground.”—Hayden SimmonsAdditional ResourcesLearn more about Libra, Facebook’s blockchain powered digital currency – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(digital_currency)Learn more about One Million Advisors – https://nextbillion.net/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 Hayden SimmonsLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ken Youens-Clark. BiographyKen Youens-Clark is a senior-level programmer with 24 years of experience developing software in industry and research environments (scientific programmer). He is the author of Tiny Python Projects published by Manning Publications.Ken has deep knowledge of the entire software life-cycle experience, from design, execution, testing, release, and iteration. Ken is a creative thinker and innovator, constantly looking for ways to improve upon systems and interfaces. Ken enjoys mentoring younger developers through code reviews, book reviews, and teaching.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“I didn’t know I would be a programmer. And I didn’t understand what that would mean as a career, but playing with computers seemed interesting to me.”“I’ve always dealt with a lot of imposter syndrome at every single level. You go into a place with pretty cool people who have CS degrees, some of whom were from MIT. These people were clearly better prepared for what we were doing, but I think I brought a different way of problem solving.”“I didn’t really understand maybe how languages were put together, but I could still use them very effectively.”“I’m not qualified on my own to go off and do research. But I can create the software that other people can use for that.”“You need to learn how to write 1 or 2 lines of code and then run your program. You don’t write 50 lines of code and get your program to work.”“Your own personal happiness should come first. That means at home too with your relationships and your health and your mental well being. All of these things need to be in line for you to grow in any sort of way whether it is professionally or personally.”—Ken Youens-ClarkAdditional ResourcesThe first five people who email the show at hello@develomentor.com will receive a code good for one free ebook copy of “Tiny Python Projects”. For those who don’t want to send an email, you can get a 40% discount ON ALL Manning books, including “Tiny Python Projects” by using the discount code poddevmen20.Click here to buy “Tiny Python Projects” by Manning PublicationsCold Spring Harbor Laboratory – Advancing the frontiers of biology through education and researchKen’s YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/kyclarkYou 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 Ken Youens-ClarkLinkedInTwitterWebsiteYouTubeFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Naomi Ceder.BiographyNaomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago. She switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python.An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi currently serves as chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general.By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usWe are doing a Manning Publications give away!!The first five people who email the show at hello@develomentor.com will receive a code good for one free ebook. You can also get a 40% discount ON ALL Manning books, including The Quick Python Book by using the discount code poddevmen20. Quotes“When there are events going on I find it more rewarding to be a part of the event than to be a spectator”“If you’re sincerely out there trying to help other people, I think that is the best way you can find contacts and build a network.”“Over the years our more important purpose has been growing and fostering a global python community.”(Trans*code) “There were lots of events going on in tech like hackathons and hack days. But there was never anything focused around trans folk.”—Naomi CederAdditional ResourcesFind out more about trans*code – https://www.trans.tech/Check out Naomi’s book The Quick Python Book from Manning PublicationsFollow Trans*Code on Twitter – @trans_codeYou 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 Naomi CederLinkedInTwitterTwitchhttps://naomiceder.tech/Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Stephen Wolfram.Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Stephen is shaping the future of computing every day.Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking. He has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.(https://www.stephenwolfram.com)If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“Most of science is incremental. But there are these rare moments when fields of science have this explosion of activity and there’s tons of low hanging fruit to be picked.”“We’re trying to raise the level of how computation can be used by a much broader range of people and its working!”“The idea that space and time are the same kind of thing is basically wrong. It was a sort of mathematical gloss on top of Einsteins theory of relativity. The mathematics works on nicely, but on the conceptual level it’s the wrong way to go.”—Stephen WolframAdditional ResourcesWolfram Alpha is a computational search engine and an incredible tool – https://www.wolframalpha.com/Listen to Guy Kawasaki interview Stephen Wolfram – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guy-kawasakis-remarkable-people/id1483081827?i=1000459949118Stephen’s writings about his personal infrastructure –https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/Check out Stephen’s book – A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics – https://www.wolfram-media.com/products/a-project-to-find-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics.htmlStephen Wolfram’s TED talk about Wolfram Alpha and the future of computingYou 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 Stephen WolframLinkedInTwitterhttps://www.stephenwolfram.com/Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dr. Ryan Rosario!Dr. Ryan Rosario is currently a Data Scientist at Google, in the Search area, and Lecturer for the UCLA Department of Computer Science. Prior to Google, Ryan has worked at both Facebook and Amazon. Ryan has split his time between industry and academia. His research, academic and work interests include Machine Learning, Text Mining and Natural Language Processing. If you are enjoying our content please leave us a rating and review or consider supporting usQuotes“It wasn’t until I was in the middle of my undergraduate career when I realized how much computer science and statistics went together.”“For me, security is most important. Although I’ve worked at startups and really enjoyed them, I personally like the bigger company culture better.”“99 percent of the time as a data scientist is spent with data management. I actually enjoy this! It should actually be a passion for people to enjoy data management.”“You have to find your own projects on your own using data that’s in your interest area. If you’re interested in the problem being solved you’ll be able to develop the intuition to solve the problem.”—Ryan RosarioKey MilestonesMany of our listeners are often wonder about pursuing graduate studies after college. Ryan did two master’s and a PhD. What inspired him to go so deep?Ryan has managed to keep one foot in both academia and industry. How has he been able to organize this kind of balance?Ryan got dual master’s degrees in statistics and computer science. What is a quantitative engineer?Ryan explains how to develop data intuition. Text and natural language processingWhat are some key skills that will help you be successful in data science?Additional ResourcesGuide to learning R for data science – https://www.dataquest.io/blog/learn-r-for-data-science/Check out Ryan’s blog – http://www.bytemining.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 Dr. Ryan RosarioLinkedInTwitterBlogFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is James Schaffer.James Schaffer is a founder, strategist, product designer, and currently a freelance software engineer. He has over a decade of experience managing small organizations including a social justice advocacy firm.James is skilled in entrepreneurship, planning, curriculum design & development, data ETL and financial modeling. James is committed to leveraging excellent product design and data engineering for social equity and progressive policy.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“The core thing was providing training and tools for community organizations and social justice groups to be more powerful in their lobbying work.”“I loved what I was doing but I wanted to be closer to the code. Software engineers would say ‘this is hard to do for X, Y, Z reason’. And its not that I didn’t believe them, but I just didn’t understand why.”“Flatiron bootcamp is a bit different than university computer science. I think its way more applied and way less theoretical. We did basically no algorithm work.”“10 hours of email coaching has been more impactful than years of psychotherapy.”“Try not to write emails that are longer than 5 sentences.”—James SchafferKey MilestonesWhy fascinated James about Classical Latin? What did it teach him about himself and his learning style?James has had at least 3 different inflection points in his career so far: bookkeeping, social justice advocacy, and now programming. How did James decide to go to a boot camp? Why did he pick Flatiron?What was the Flatiron bootcamp experience like?After graduating from a bootcamp, James started freelancing. How does he find clients?Why is email coaching and inbox zero? And how has it been a game changer for James?Additional ResourcesJames learned to code at the Flatiron Bootcamp – https://flatironschool.com/Geoff Harcourt on Develomentor – CTO of Literacy Non-profit, CommonLit #48What is inbox zero? – https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/inbox-zeroYou 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 James SchafferLinkedInhttps://www.thisjames.com/Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Simon Willison.Simon Willison is a JSK Journalism Fellow. When selected as a fellow he was an engineering director at Eventbrite. He originally joined Eventbrite through its acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator-funded company he co-founded in 2010. Simon has made huge leaps in data journalism. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework. He has also been blogging about web development, programming and data journalism since 2002 at simonwillison.net.Simon is the creator of Datasette, a new tool for publishing structured data as a web API. Datasette is based on Simon’s experiences working as a data journalist at the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. One of Simon’s projects included the Guardian’s crowdsourcing application for analyzing expense claims by members of Parliament.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!QuotesThese days python is used for data science. None of that tooling existed back then. The website of python was very nascent. People were still figuring out ‘whats the best way to build things with python‘?You can use software engineering skills to help tell stories and to help break the news. “My wife and I got married in 2010 and we decided that we’d quit our jobs and go off traveling as long as we could. We’d take laptops and see if there were freelancing clients we could work with.” —Simon WillisonAdditional ResourcesWhat is a content management system (CMS)? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8MkRr9gu0One of Simon’s side projects Owls Near Me – https://www.owlsnearme.com/Learn more about the Django Project – https://www.djangoproject.com/The Pendulum Approach – by Charity Majors – https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pendulum-or-the-ladder/Charity Majors on Develomentor – https://develomentor.com/2020/06/18/charity-majors-systems-engineer-cofounder-of-honeycomb-io-66/Check out Simon’s newest side project Datasette – https://github.com/simonw/datasetteThe Manager’s path – https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897Ask a manager blog – https://www.askamanager.org/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 Simon WillisonLinkedInGitHubhttps://simonwillison.net/Follow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Caitlyn Greffly.Caitlyn Greffly is a software engineer who recently transitioned from beer sales into tech via Thinkful bootcamp. She also tries to advocate for others who are making the career switch, and enjoys talking about tech with anyone who will listen.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“I spent a good chunk of time working in the beer industry. And I just got sick of the travel. There was a lot of mandatory drinking events and I was just burning out. So I decided to make a career shift and joined the Thinkful coding bootcamp. Its a remote boot camp. After 6 months I got hired and became an associate software engineer.“I still can’t believe how generous people are in the tech industry with their time. There were so many people who didn’t know me and would just offer me their time to help me or to just talk to me.”“As a junior (developer) its easy to feel like you know nothing and everybody else knows everything.”—Caitlyn GrefflyKey MilestonesBefore we talk tech, Caitlyn spends a moment digging into that psychology degree and those early years working in the beer industryCaitlyn studied to become a beer cicerone – it required 6 months!Caitlyn was able to hold a full time job and attend data analytics bootcamp. What was that experience like?Why did Caitlyn choose the Thinkful bootcamp for data analytics?Caitlyn’s networking tips coming out of bootcamps involve meetups, LinkedIn talking, and much more. Most junior devs don’t jump right in to speaking and writing. Caitlyn wanted to share her experience coming into tech. Caitlyn’s first junior developer role had great on-boarding. Unfortunately this isn’t the case at all companies. What can senior engineers do to help support junior developers?Additional ResourcesLearn more about Thinkful Bootcamps – https://www.thinkful.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 Caitlyn GrefflyLinkedInTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Leon MallettLeon Mallett accepted a job in digital marketing when real estate investing became too risky. Before he knew it, digital marketing became his passion! Leon is currently the chief operating officer (COO) of IAM Cloud (IAM Technology Group Ltd). Leon Mallett is a biology major turned digital marketer and tech executive who I first met on Twitter on a thread on careers and jobs people have held. Turns out we were both paper boys growing up and are now in the C-Suite at tech firms. Along his career path, Leon has worked in real estate and customer service. He has also worked in digital marketing for a number of companies including Tesco and the University of Sheffield. I’ll have to check the archives, but I believe Leon is also the first COO of a tech company we’ve had on the show, so I’m eager to dig into what that means–Grant IngersollIf you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“The idea of a marketer is you have to be a generalist. There is a broad set of skills and its really important that you have a breadth of skills across good copy writing, technical skills, as well as an understanding of social platforms.““What I learned from my MBA, weirdly, is not so much a load of facts. instead I learned that it does not matter if you don’t know everything because you can work things out. That mindset shift was the real game changer for me.”“For me, when hiring someone, personality is 90%, skills are 10%.”—Leon MallettKey MilestonesWhat inspired Leon to transition into digital marketing?While marketing is as old as time, digital marketing is still a fairly young field and it covers a lot of ground, especially these days with all the tools available. What is the scope of digital marketing?What are some of the key skills needed to be in marketing?Major differences between working in industry and university What does a COO at a tech company focus on? Why does Leon prefer hiring people who have either owned a business or worked as a contractor?Additional ResourcesGeoff Harcourt – CTO of Literacy Non-profit, CommonLit #48You 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 Leon MallettLinkedInWebsiteTwitterFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Zhenya AntićZhenya Antić is an AI consultant in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). She helps businesses transform their textual data to extract meaningful insights from it, improve their process, cut costs and increase productivity by automating their text processing. (Freelance NLP Consultant)Zhenya's background is in Computer Science (BS from MIT) and Linguistics (PhD from UC Berkeley). She also working on many NLP projects at FactSet, a large financial software company, and as a consultant for companies of all sizes. If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary"Linguistics is the theoretical exploration of language and how it works. So you have syntax, mythology, phonology. There is the study of language acquisition and bilingualism. You can study pragmatics and how language is used. You can study how different factors affect language like gender or race.""I had a child and I thought 'what can I do that does not involve commuting to NYC every day?' Someone suggested ‘why don’t you start an NLP blog?’. I said ‘yeah that sounds nice’. It took a a few hours each week to post these blog posts. Then I tried to apply for an NLP job on Upwork which sounded very interesting. They took me on board and that was my first client.""I have 5 kids. I work 4 days and 1 day I’m with the kids. I’m very lucky that I can both work and be with my kids. I do what I love and when I don’t have too much work, I work on my own projects with neural networks."—Zhenya AntićKey MilestonesHow did Zhenya first become interested in linguistics?What was it like getting a PhD in linguistics and when did Zhenya discover that academia wasn't for her? Natural language processing (NLP) is at the intersection of linguistics and computer science. How hard was it to transition from academia to NLP research?Consulting is often feast or famine. Some months there is more work than you have time, other months, more time than work. What does being a consultant look like on the day to dayWhat are some practical tips for someone looking to go on their own in consulting?Additional Resources'Linguistics War' between Lakoff and Chomsky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_warsAdam Cheyer – Co-Founder of Siri, Viv Labs, and Change.org #67Learn more about Zhenya and what she offers as an NLP consultant - https://www.practicallinguist.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 Zhenya AntićLinkedInWebsiteFollow DevelomentorTwitter: @develomentorConnect with Grant IngersollLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dr. Shiri Dori-HacohenDr. Shiri Dori-Hacohen is the CEO & founder of AuCoDe, an AI-based FinTech startup that detects online and social media controversy. (Controversy Detection).She has fifteen years of academic and industry experience, including Google and Facebook. She received her M.Sc. and B.Sc. (cum laude) at the University of Haifa in Israel and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she researched computational models of controversy. Dr. Dori-Hacohen is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 2011 Google Lime Scholarship and first place at the 2016 UMass Amherst’s Innovation Challenge. She is married with two kids; identifies as a person with disabilities; and has taken an active leadership role in broadening participation in Computer Science on a local and global scale.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“I could go to Israel and get my entire undergraduate (degree) for the cost of 1 year at a public school in the states.”“Part of what was fun for me in opening a startup was this steep learning curve of all the stuff about business that I didn’t know anything about and then bringing that together with my technical experience.” “I’m also the technical co-founder. So I definitely get my hands dirty with the technical work. But my main role is to raise money so that everyone else in the company can get their job done.”—Dr. Shiri Dori-HacohenKey MilestonesShiri went to school in both America and Israel. What was it like having academic parents?Why did Shiri decide to get her undergraduate degree in Israel instead of sticking around in the US?Shiri was working in industry after getting her master’s degree, Why did she end up pursuing a PhD?When did tech become dominated by men? What is AuCode and what inspired Shiri to start her own company?Additional ResourcesDo you have many passions and don’t just want to pick one? Check out Renaissance Souls – http://renaissancesouls.com/Learn more about automated controversy detection and Shiri’s company – http://controversies.info/Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action – By Susan JeffersThe Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup – by Noam WassermanCheck out Ramit Sethi’s online courses on business – https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.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 DR. SHIRI DORI-HACOHENLinkedInFOLLOW DEVELOMENTORTwitter: @develomentorCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLLLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Diane Burley..Diane Burley is a storyteller. She helps executives in all industries understand technology’s role in solving many of the challenges they face today. What is tech content marketing? How does it differ from marketing in other industries?Diane is a former journalist and multi-media executive. She put the first daily newspapers on the web in 1995. Diane is fully aware of the complexities of integrating vast amounts of data, facing political hurdles, and changing up processes to support the technologies-all while facing that “existential threat.” If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“My thrust is never to look for a technology for technology’s sake. It is to solve a business problem, and look to match the technology to the problem. From a storytelling standpoint it helps resonate with your audience. They have the pain. They have the problem.”“You don’t want a wandering generality. You want meaningful specific – something that is meaningful and specific to truly answer a person’s needs.”“When you’re talking about enterprise technology and enterprise sales there’s so many different audience members. And I think one of the biggest mistakes most companies make is say ‘oh this is technical, and the technical person is going to understand all of this’.”“I’ve worked in networking companies, cybersecurity companies, development companies, database companies. I can tell you that the top engineers in each of those places wouldn’t have a clue about what a technology is that another company is offering. So you really need to break it down to those basic levels. You don’t have to do it in a condescending way, you do it with metaphors.”—Diane BurleyKey MilestonesDiane got degrees from SUNY Oswego and Rutgers in Communications and information systems. What did these degrees teach her?What were newspapers like in 1995 and how did they go from print to digital? How does Diane approach tech content marketing and storytelling?What are some practical skills and tips for content producers to improve their SEO?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 DIANE BURLEYLinkedInFOLLOW DEVELOMENTORTwitter: @develomentorCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLLLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Vicki Boykis.Vicki Boykis is currently a machine learning engineer at Automattic as well as a published writer on topics in the data science space. Vicki received a Bachelors degree in Economics from Penn State and her MBA from Temple. That’s right, she didn’t study computer science in university! She became curious in software engineering at her job at Comcast. She decided to learn on her own with a little help from her peers. Oh, and she took a few online courses from a community college!Vicki has 10+ years’ experience in helping companies across a broad range of industries make their data actionable. Most recently, she has built machine learning data products in Python but she has also worked with R, Tableau, Spark (Scala and Python), and Hadoop. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, running, and mentoring people new to the tech industry.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“Moving into the data science space was almost like a stroke of luck because I had no idea that it even existed.”“I knew that if I did a Coursera course I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on it because I wouldn’t feel like there was enough at stake. But the community college program was for actual credits and you get an actual certificate. It felt a little more structured and a little more real to me.”“For my MBA program what really helped me was taking accounting and finance classes. I started to understand that the people who manage companies and the people who are responsible for budgets think in terms of revenue and costs of projects and opportunity costs.”—Vicki BoykisKey MilestonesHow did Vicki get into economics and financial analysis?Vicki worked at Comcast in a business intelligence role. How did this role allow her to move into data science?In 2016, Vicki went to community college to take some computer science courses. What was it like going back to school after working for more than a few years?Data science engineer vs machine learning engineerHow has having an Econ and MBA degree helped Vicki in her career?These days, Vicki is a manager of data science and engineering. Why did she choose to move into management?How does Vicki approach team building in data science?Vicki is also a writer an an author. In what ways has this helped her career?Additional ResourcesVicki suggests anyone getting into tech should read Hacker News! – https://thehackernews.com/Mike Gualtieri – Tech Analyst at Forrester (#38) – Previous episode mentioned 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 VICKI BOYKISLinkedInTwitterFOLLOW DEVELOMENTORTwitter: @develomentorCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLLLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Adam Cheyer.Adam Cheyer is an inventor, entrepreneur, engineering executive, and a pioneer in AI and computer human interfaces.Adam has been a co-founder or founding member of four successful startups, including Siri (sold to Apple, where he led server-side engineering and AI for the Siri assistant). Change.org (the world’s largest petition platform), Viv Labs (sold to Samsung, where as VP R&D, Adam leads product engineering and developer relations for Samsung’s voice assistant), Sentient (massively distributed machine learning).Previously, Adam was VP Engineering at Verticalnet (enterprise software) and Dejima (mobile software). Adam also spent more than a decade at SRI International, where his most recent role was as Chief Architect of CALO/PAL, the US government’s largest funded AI project.Adam has authored more than 60 publications and 37 patents. He graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University and received the “Outstanding Masters Student” award from UCLA’s School of Engineering.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“I started 3 companies at the same time. Siri was my day job. I started a company called Sentient, that was my night job. And change.org was my side side project.”“After 2 years, Apple saw Siri. Steve Jobs called our office, unannounced, after we launched a free app in the app store.”“Timing is super important. I was doing Siri – like systems since 1993. Literally exactly half my life. If I tried to launch it as a company any sooner or later, it would not have had the success that it did.”“I thought that social networking would take off. And that led directly to our work at Change.org.”—Adam CheyerKey MilestonesWhat was it like studying computer science in the early 1980’s? Adam was told he couldn’t join his school’s computer club. This made him him angry and curious. How does Adam predict which technologies will be important in the future? He created a model called trends and triggers that he uses to organize his own thinking. Siri was partially created to give other phone manufacturers a shot at taking down Apple. How did Apple end up acquiring Siri? What was it like receiving a phone call from Steve Jobs unannounced?Change.org is a massively influential petition platform. Yet, Adam views it as a side project. Why is this?Additional ResourcesBixby Developers is a conversational assistant marketplace. Its part of Samsung. Learn more about it – https://bixbydevelopers.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 ADAM CHEYERLinkedInTwitterWebsiteFOLLOW DEVELOMENTORTwitter: @develomentorCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLLLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Charity MajorsCharity Majors is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab. She is also the co-author of Database Reliability Engineering. Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, a company dedicated to building production engineering and observability products“With distributed systems, you don’t care about the health of the system, you care about the health of the event or the slice.”If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“Our [systems engineers] expertise is around everything from performance and optimization to capacity, projections and provisioning.”“Ops teams have a dark sense of humor. In my experience, they also tend to have the most cohesive teams out of all engineering teams. And i think its because they walk through the fire together.”“I think that new managers need to commit to it [management] for about 2 years. That’s about how long it takes for your brain to rewire itself and learn how to build that inner voice that you can trust that tells you if you’re doing well or not.”“I wanted to write go code for 2 years straight. That’s all I wanted to do after Facebook. Just heads down, write software!”“Looking at the way we build software now its so painful and its so inefficient and it doesn’t have to be. The biggest obstacle I see between us as an industry and a better way is that we’ve come to believe that this is just how it is.”—Charity Majors“Basically in a large site with tens of thousands of servers, every day something is breaking.”—Grant IngersollAdditional ResourcesEp. 4 Goldman Sachs Saved My Tech Career, with Camille FournierWhat is observability and cardinality? https://thenewstack.io/observability-a-3-year-retrospective/Learn more about honeycomb.io – https://www.honeycomb.io/Check out honeycomb.io blog – https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/Read Charity’s blog – charity.wtfYou 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 CHARITY MAJORSTwitterLinkedInFOLLOW DEVELOMENTORTwitter: @develomentorCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLLLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Erik Bernhardsson.Erik Bernhardsson is the CTO of Better. Better is on a mission to change the enormous and hopelessly broken mortgage industry. Erik runs the technology team, which consists of roughly 50 engineers.Before Better, Erik spent six years at Spotify, mostly building the core of the music recommendation system. He started out writing recommendation algorithms and eventually built a team of 20 people to help out with this.In his spare time, Erik enjoy building open source software, for instance Annoy (6k stars on Github) and Luigi. Erik also co-organizes the NYC Machine Learning meetup, and writes a tech blog which has a few hundred thousand visitors per year.Earlier in his life Erik used to do a lot of algorithm competitions. He won an IOI gold medal in 2003 and won the Nordic programming competition five times.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“The most impact a CTO can have in many ways is recruiting.”“At Spotify, for the first year, no one told me who my manager was. No one told me a single thing about what to do. I just did things I thought would be valuable to the business."“You’re going to want to find vectors of who wants to listen to what track. Using these vectors you can do all of these recommendation operations.”—Erik BernhardssonKey MilestonesWhat is it about physics and math that makes them such fertile ground for preparing programmers?Erik helped build recommendation algorithms and systems for Spotify as a developer and a manager. How do these recommendation systems work and what impact can they have?Erik made the leap from a successful company to joining a startup as the CTO. How did he know the time was right for such a transition?What are some of the things Erik looksRange: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World for when hiring people for his team?What are some concrete interviewing tips?Additional ResourcesCheck out Erik’s website/blog – https://erikbern.com/Develomentor Ep. 17 Jake Mannix – Self-Professed Math Nerd Physicist turned AI EngineerDevelomentor Ep. #44 Aline Lerner – Pro Chef Starts Tech Recruiting Firm, Interviewing.io Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World – by David EpsteinYou 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 ERIK BERNHARDSSONLinkedInTwitterFOLLOW DEVELOMENTORTwitter: @develomentorCONNECT WITH GRANT INGERSOLLLinkedInTwitter

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael TusoMichael Tuso is currently Director of Revenue Performance at Chili Piper. He has held a variety of sales roles both inside of and outside of technology. Over the years, he’s sold for Citrix, SnackNation and now Chili Piper. He’s also done a different category of “sales” work as a campaign manager. To make his story even more colorful, Michael built much of his early sales experience working from South and Central America in places like Costa Rica and Bolivia. So, if you’ve always wondered what it’s like to do technical sales, stay tuned!If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“There’s a lot of parallels I’ve been able to draw between selling a candidate and selling an actual tech product.”“When you use too many words it portrays you aren’t confident in what you’re saying.”“Outside of school, I spent most of my time coaching and training people in various forms of martial arts. I always try to find ways to make my interests mutually reinforce each other and I still do that today.”—Michael TusoKey MilestonesMichael was working in politics but decided to move to La Paz, Bolivia to work at Citrix. What influenced this decision?The early years of sales + living and working in a new countryThe key skills required to be successful in tech salesProduct knowledge alone does not equate to success in salesThe difference between a sales engineer and a sales architectHow do you build an effective tech sales team?What kind of people are cut out for sales? What makes them succeed at it?Additional ResourcesMichael Tuso on ‘future stating’ in the sales process – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLIwbQLqeULearn more about sales enablement? – https://www.hubspot.com/sales-enablementYou 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 MICHAEL TUSOLinkedInFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dr. Roman Yampolskiy.Dr. Yampolskiy’s main areas of interest are behavioral biometrics, digital forensics, pattern recognition, genetic algorithms, neural networks, artificial super-intelligence and games. Dr. Yampolskiy is an author of over 100 publications including multiple journal articles and books. His research has been cited by numerous scientists and profiled in popular magazines both American and foreign (New Scientist, Poker Magazine, Science World Magazine), dozens of websites (BBC, MSNBC, Yahoo! News) and on radio (German National Radio, Alex Jones Show). Reports about his work have attracted international attention and have been translated into many languages including Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, and Spanish.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“My interest is artificial intelligence. Specifically I’m trying to understand how to control it and how to make sure it’s beneficial for everyone.““You’re not going to find some perfect role model. Take something good from a dozen people.”“Whatever the product is, people will find ridiculous ways to abuse it. You need to see this ahead of time and get ready for it.““If a system is smarter than you, you cannot predict what its actually going to do. By definition. If you could, you’d be just as smart.” —Roman YampolskiyKey MilestonesDr. Yampolskiy was able to bypass getting a bachelor’s degree and go straight to getting his Master’s and PhD. How did he do this? And how was he able to save money on education?What is Dr Yampolskiy’s approach to deep work? How is he able to juggle teaching and his own research?Computing is advancing at an increasing pace, what are Dr Yamposlkiy’s thoughts on artificial super-intelligence? Why is Dr. Yampolsky working on finding failure models for systems that don’t even exist today?How has Dr. Yampolskiy been able to have multiple mentors and take away bits and pieces from each one of them?Additional ResourcesArtificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach – by Dr. Roman YampolskiyEp. 6 of Develomentor Freedom – From Side Hustle to a Scalable Business, with Fred StutzmanYou 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 DR. ROMAN YAMPOLSKIYLinkedInTwitterFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Sona Maniyan.If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to change careers into the tech industry after a long time as a stay at home parent, stay tuned!Sona Maniyan received both her bachelor’s and master’s in accounting and finance. Subsequently, she landed roles ranging from consultant to customer service supervisor and financial analyst. But Sona’s career path took a turn after a few years as a stay-at-home Mom. She decided to go back to school to become a software engineer. In this second phase of her career, Sona has held roles for the likes of Symantec, Target and General Mills. In addition, Sona is also the leader for the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the cofounder of the Social Data Science meetup in Minneapolis. If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“I wouldn’t say relaunching my career was just me alone. It took a whole village. Everybody has in some way contributed to help me get to where I am.““I didn’t care so much about grades. I cared more about what I was learning. So I would do the harder projects.““Data science is becoming more of a consultant role where we work very closely with the business. Communication skills and understanding business requirements are becoming a lot more important.”—Sona ManiyanKey MilestonesWhat attracted Sona to finance and accounting at the start?What was it like living in Kuwait during the Gulf War of the 1990s?Why did Sona choose software engineering and tech? Why not go back into finance and accounting?While colleges have certainly gotten better at supporting working adults, they aren’t exactly optimized for it. What was it like going back to school a bit later in life?One of the things we see often on the show is how different backgrounds help people become better more rounded developers, managers and colleagues. How have Sona’s experiences in customer service, finance and consulting shaped her career as a developer and data scientist?Additional ResourcesLearn more about AnitaB and how it is helping women in technology – https://anitab.org/ Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – https://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/dp/0060731338Develomentor Ep. 20 JP Sherman – US Army PsyOps turned SEO ExpertYou 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 SONA MANIYANLinkedInFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is John Carnell. John Carnell is currently the team lead at Genesys.He comes to us with 20+ years of experience working across a variety of technical development roles including consultant, tech architect, developer and team lead. He has a background in both computer science and criminology and has also gone on to get an MBA. Along his path he’s written a book and taken on a number of speaking engagements.If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“When you look at a problem, you got to look at the process. Its not always a technical problem you’re solving. What are the human elements in a problem that are driving a certain outcome?”“I’ve always followed tension between an open internet and regulations. I find that a lot of times I go back to ‘where does it balance out in the constitution?’.”“A lot of the elements and methodologies that are now mainstream in software development had borrowed heavily from that background that earlier business people had drawn upon.”—John CarnellKey MilestonesJohn tells us about his criminology background and how that area of knowledge has helped shape his careerWhy did John decide to get his MBAHow was John able to point out problems in companies without complaining?Cloud Engineer vs Software EngineerWhen did John decide he wanted to go into tech management and leadership?What is lean 6 sigma program and how is it used to improve process inefficiencies. What are some similarities between tech architect and software engineer?John’s book, Spring Microservices in ActionAdditional ResourcesWhat is lean six sigma? – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Six_SigmaSpring Microservices in Action – John’s book published by Manning PublicationsYou 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 JOHN CARNELLLinkedInFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Peter BellPeter Bell has a long history of building tech companies and holding down roles like CEO and CTO. After studying electronics and communications systems engineering, Peter promptly went into private practice as a psychotherapist. He then returned to tech to add a long string of founder titles to his resume. Over the years, Peter has built web design companies, digital agencies, and sales and tech training companies. He’s worked for the likes of Github and General Assembly, as well as a variety of smaller firms. Peter is also an active community builder, public speaker and a fellow podcaster. If you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“I was doing fine with this degree thing, but I didn’t want to work for a company that was dumb enough not to hire me without a piece of paper.”“I wanted to be the next Tony Robbins and start a psychotherapy practice. Then I figured out that sales and psychotherapy are fundamentally the same practice just with different payment mechanisms.”“There is a lot more commonality between being a VP of engineering and an individual contributor. Being a manager is almost something totally different.”—Peter BellKey MilestonesBefore we dive into the tech Peter tells us more about his private practice as a psychotherapistWhen did Peter first recognize you wanted to be an entrepreneur?Going the founder route is often a roller coaster of a ride. Peter recalls some of the key inflection points that helped define him as a founder?What was the inspiration for CTO School, CTO Summit and the CTO Connection and who is the target audience?What are some of the key lessons Peter has learned about being in the CTO role over all these years?Additional ResourcesIntroduction to domain specific languages – https://www.codemag.com/article/0607051/Introducing-Domain-Specific-LanguagesLearn more about CTO connection – https://www.ctoconnection.com/Ep. 4 Goldman Sachs Saved My Tech Career, with Camille FournierThe Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change – by Camille FournierFOLLOW CTO SUMMIT @CTOSummitYou 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 BELLLinkedInFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jonathan CutrellJonathan Cutrell is a communications and media studies graduate who started his early career as a writer and editor before entering the world of development. He’s held a variety of roles including software engineer, director and CTO. These days, he’s an engineering manager and fellow podcaster who started the Spec.fm podcast network. Spec.fm currently hosts 12 different podcasts and sees an average of 100,000 downloads a weekIf you are enjoying our content, click here to support us!Episode Summary“What a lot of people get out of journaling I get out of making podcasts.”“I think the best way to think about Developer Tea, and incidentally to think about almost anything, is in the smallest possible chunk you can consume.”“Frankly, I think Developer Tea is as much of a me talking to myself as me talking to the people that listen to it.”—Jonathan CutrellKey MilestonesHow did Jonathan get into tech and how was he able to get into early leadership roles like Director of TechnologyHow was Jonathan able to hold so many management roles? What drew him to management?Jonathan hosts the podcast called Developer Tea. What was the inspiration for starting the show?Spec.fm consists of 11 different podcasts focused on developers and technology. How did Jonathan create this platform?As a manager and a podcaster, Jonathan focused much of your career on helping developers succeed. How did Jonathan find this niche?What does Jonathan look for when hiring and building teams?Additional ResourcesCheck out our previous interview with Podcaster Charles Max Wood – Charles Max Wood – From Programmer to Full-Time Podcast WizFollow Jonathan’s podcast Developer Tea – @DeveloperTeaVisit the spec.fm podcast network – https://spec.fm/Follow Specfm – @specfmYou 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 JONATHAN CUTRELLLinkedInWebsiteTwitterFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Arun GanesanArun Ganesan is an Embedded Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company. Arun obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona. He then started working at Ford Motor Co. as an Analytical Programmer due to his knowledge in Matlab programming. Arun started writing Matlab scripts for durability analysis which then expanded to systems level analysis. At that point he jumped to being Systems Engineer. Arun continued with Matlab programming as well as C# programming – this is where he got exposed to Embedded Systems. Are you enjoying our content at Develomentor? Support us hereEpisode Summary“When I was small, I would always tinker around with electronics and take things apart and put them back until I got yelled at for doing things like that. That was my interest. When I was 17, My dad and I had a talk and he said, Why not electric engineering?”“Digital design is designing the logic within a CPU. You’re always working on the same framework. The same set of rules apply. In analog design, its more real-world based. You’re using circuits to solve real world problems.”“The code goes with the hardware. C# is just for the application on windows. The actual code that goes on the transmission or on the chip is C.”—Arun GanesanKey MilestonesWhat exactly is electrical engineering and what attracted Arun to pursuing a career in it? Who is an embedded systems engineer and what are some of the key skills necessary? Understanding how to code lean is essential for embedded systems! What type of tools does Arun use? What is the day to day of an embedded systems engineerHow has Arun’s electrical engineering background served him in his role?Additional ResourcesEp. 18 Kavita Ganesan – Software Engineer turned NLP Data ScientistIntroductory online course to embedded systems: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-embedded-systems?This course is a 3-part course offered by UT Austinhttps://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-the-woroller-i ld-microcontrhttps://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-the-world-multi-threaded-inhttps://www.edx.org/course/real-time-bluetooth-networks-shape-the-worldYou 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 ARUN GANESANLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/arun-ganesan-677b7729/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Drew LazzeriBiographyDrew Lazzeri is a former lumberjack who then went on to get a degree in math and theater from Santa Clara University. From college, he has gone on to be a freelance web developer and full stack engineer. Interviewing.io Referral Code for Develomentor Listeners!While he currently works for another guest of the show, Aline Lerner at interviewing.io, he’s about to take a sabbatical from tech to go to music school in Hungary for a few months.Episode Summary“The rare and valuable skills that enable a lot of people to be successful in either tech or other parts of knowledge work come out of relationships you have with mentors. Mentors who were able to hand down those skills.”“I think its useful to just think about the users. What change you could make for them? It’s always interesting how you could make changes all over the stack that can help with loading time or make a feature easier or harder to implement.”“Hearing the stories and the paths people have taken through in their career is so vital. It leads to success in bringing people in and having good mentorship and all sorts of the relationships that this industry is founded on.”—Drew LazzeriKey MilestonesDrew began to teach himself tech at age 12. He also spent some time as a lumberjack! In college although he started down the path of computer science, he decided to switch majors to abstract math and theatre. ‘How to become a hacker’ by Eric Raymond had a huge influence on Drew.How does Drew approach the role of being a full stack developer? What are some of the key skills to be successful in this role?How has theater played a part of in Drew’s career?Who were Drew’s mentors throughout his career?Why did Drew decide to take a break from tech to go study music? Additional ResourcesRead the article ‘How to become a hacker’ by Eric Raymond – http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.htmlFree online book to learn Python, ‘ How to Think like a Computer Scientist’ – http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/Mike Gamson – CEO of Relativity, Former VP of Sales at LinkedIn (#53)Ep. 14 Duretti Hirpa – Secrets from a Self Taught Software DeveloperAline Lerner – Pro Chef Starts Tech Recruiting Firm, Interviewing.io (#44)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 DREW LAZERRILinkedInFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guests are Chris Love and Jay Vyas.The first five people who email the show at kube@develomentor.com will receive a code good for one free ebook. For those who don’t want to send an email, you can get a 40% discount ON ALL Manning books, including Core Kubernetes by using the discount code poddevmen20. Get 40% off on Core Kubernetes or anything from Manning Publications using this link!!BiographyChris Love is a 20-year veteran consultant who started his career early by leaving school and then running the engineering and radio production departments at his first company. After this, he started his own consulting firm, which he has been successfully running for 20+ years now. His partner in crime on the book is Jay Vyas. Jay sits in contrast to Chris in that he did an undergrad in math, a master’s in comp sci, and a PhD in bioinformatics. Post education, he went on to work in a variety of software engineering roles at companies like UConn Health, Red Hat, Synopsys, and VMWare.Episode Summary"If you understand Kubernetes as a developer as an engineer, then you understand how any cloud works, it's just gonna be the common currency for how people talk about cloud computing moving forward.""I don't know if I would go get a PhD in 2020. I might though and there is one reason why. You really get to think about problems very deeply for a very long period of time when you're getting a PhD, and I think that's a lot of fun.""Don't stay stagnant. If you wanna work on a software project, get into some open source. If you wanna get in the product development, start an open source or closed source project and look at starting a company."—Chris Love and Jay VyasAdditional ResourcesBuy Core Kubernetes or anything from Manning Publications for 40% off! – http://bit.ly/core-kubernetesKubernetes in Action – by Manning PublicationsHow to Win Friends & Influence People – by Dale CarnegieYou 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 LOVELinkedInTwitterGitHubPersonal WebsiteCONNECT WITH JAY VYASLinkedInGitHubTwitterFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Michael Hausenblas. BiographyMichael started his career in academia as a PhD academic researcher. These days, Michael is a Developer Advocate at AWS. He is part of the container service team, focusing on container security. Michael shares his experience around cloud-native infrastructure and apps through demos, blog posts, books, and public speaking engagements as well as contributes to open-source software. Before AWS, Michael worked at Red Hat, Mesosphere,MapR and in two research institutions in Ireland and Austria.Episode Summary“I found that industry overall is way less stressful than academic research. If it’s weekend or if I’m on PTO or whatever, I’m offline.““I’m a developer advocate. Basically, it's kind of like a guinea pig. We’re the first ones who get to play around with software and give feedback. It’s like, the UX here is great or here the UX sucks. So we are guinea pigs representing for the customer.”“I just love to be on-site with customers discussing things, trying things. The greatest part is being with actual users of the software that you’re producing and going over that in 400 level details.”—Michael HausenblasKey MilestonesWhat led Michael into academia and academic research at the start of his career?After about 4 years doing research focused work, Michael left for a startup and took a role doing pre-sales work. That’s a pretty far cry from doing research. What led to that change and what went into his decision process? What does a sales engineer do?Now Michael is in a dev advocate role, how does that compare with being a sales engineer?What attracted Michael to more public-facing roles like developer advocacy?Who is Ted Dunning? And why was he such a big influence for Michael?Additional ResourcesConnect with Ted Dunning on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/teddunning/Support Us at Develomentor – https://develomentor.com/support-us/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/Follow Michael HausenblasLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mhausenblas/Twitter: @mhausenblasFollow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Nadeem Chaudhry. Nadeem Chaudhry is the proverbial college dropout who left school early to get started on his software career. After leaving college before his junior year, he worked his way up from software engineering and architecture into engineering management and leadership. These days, he’s the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Jobot, a startup focused on using artificial intelligence to transform the career recruiting space. Nadeem has worked in a variety of industries including ecommerce, recruiting, and customer relationship management. All along the way, he has always been building products. Episode Summary"When I was in college, I really got my hands dirty and started building very early on. So by my second year, I had already completed an entire platform for students to buy and sell books, goods, other things with each other on campus""You want the people that you're mentoring to continuously grow, and that may mean that they outgrow what you can offer."—Nadeem ChaudhryKey MilestonesWhy didn't college work out for Nadeem?Nadeem's first title out of college was “Lead Software Developer”. How does one land a lead role straight out of dropping out of college?Many engineers struggle with deciding whether to code or go into management. What was Nadeem's thought process in making those choices?Who were Nadeem's mentors throughout his career?Key traits Nadeem looks for when hiring and how does he think about team building?What are some tips for a developer getting better at the business side?What are a few quick tips you can enact to make you stand out to recruiters (and the bots who are filtering resumes and profiles)?Additional ResourcesStart with Why - by Simon SinekMeasure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs - by John DoerrDevelomentor Ep. 5 Design Thinking and Your Career, with Drew FarrisEp. 12 How to Shift Your Career from Engineering to Product, with Nick CaldwellEp. 10 From a Bachelor’s in Psychology to CTO, with Stephen CarvelliThe Hacker News - find out what's trending in technologyLearn more about Jobot - https://jobot.com/Follow Jobot on twitter - @JobotJobsYou 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 Nadeem ChaudhryLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nadeem-chaudhry/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mike Gamson. Mike first joined the Relativity team in 2017 as a member of the advisory board. He got the unique opportunity to get to know the company’s business and team extremely well before stepping up to the role of CEO in 2019. Mike brings over 20 years of recruitment, sales, and product marketing experience to Relativity. In his former role at LinkedIn, Mike oversaw LinkedIn’s Global Solutions Organization (GSO) for its more than 30 offices worldwide, focusing on servicing corporate customers in three primary areas—talent solutions, marketing solutions, and sales solutions. Before LinkedIn, Mike was director of product marketing at Advent Software, a provider of enterprise software for investment managers, where he led the trading and order management business. Mike received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.Episode Summary“We ran out of money in Costa Rica. It was from that necessity of finding a way to perpetuate our ability to stay in Costa Rica, that we ended up starting a business, and the business was a restaurant at first.”“I had a lot of insecurity around how my choice of study, religion, and fine arts, would be viewed by the business community. So I did ultimately think that spending some time in a bank would be helpful. And it was helpful both in what it taught me and what it reinforced in me that I did not want to do for a living.”“I found myself in a sales role without any real sales management experience. I had managed a very small team of salespeople for a year, but now I was VP of sales at a company that we thought we had something special, but we didn’t know exactly how big. We didn’t know that it was going be the killer app at LinkedIn that turned into a multi-billion dollar revenue line for the company.”—Mike GamsonAdditional ResourcesLearn more about Relativity, focused on e-discovery https://www.relativity.com/Escape Velocity – by Geoffrey A. Moore https://amzn.to/2FPwUPi (learn about rapid business growth and scaling)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/Follow Mike GamsonLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mikegamson/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Liz Phillips. Liz Phillips is a full-stack software engineer in New York City. She has a strong background in design from her previous career working in theater and film. Every week you can tune into her educational Twitch stream where she’s creating a welcoming community for coders of all skill levels to meet other coders, ask questions, and learn by working on a real open source projects and answering questions. Liz is a proud member of the The Live Coders Twitch stream team. Liz believes in using coding powers to help others. If you’re on the streets of New York you might see her skate by.Episode Summary"With coding. You have an input and you have an output and like all the stuff in between is kind of artistic.""In the boot camp you were going through HTML, CSS jQuery, React all the way up through building the whole stack. In three months.""Try some free resources. Try code academy. Try free code camp. See if you like it. If you can afford it, take a boot camp prep class, see if you like it. And if you do those things and you're like, 'Wow, I really enjoyed this', you can totally do it for a living.""I feel like if I wanted to, I could go a lot of different places and thats something I just never had with theater, which is really nice. Also, I now have this skill set that opens a lot of doors for different things that I want to do, whether that's trying to teach other people things or making an app that might make me money or doing the twitch streaming."—Liz PhillipsAdditional ResourcesTune into Liz's Twitch Channel - Illuminated Space - https://www.twitch.tv/illuminatedspaceLiz is also a part of the the group Live Coders - Learn about coding by watching coders! - https://livecoders.dev/Learn more about Grace Hopper Bootcamp - https://www.gracehopper.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/Follow Liz PhillipsTwitter: @lizcodesLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lizkristinaphillips/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Josh Wills. Josh Wills is a former engineer on Slack's Search, Learning, and Intelligence Team helping to build the company's production search and machine learning infrastructure. He's a recovering manager, having most recently built and led Slack's data engineering team and before that the data science and engineering teams at Cloudera and Google. Josh is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, the founder of the Apache Crunch project, and a co-author of O'Reilly's Advanced Analytics with Spark. In May of 2012, he tweeted a pithy definition of a data scientist as someone who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician, and his Twitter mentions have never been the same.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“Statistics in school, at least when I was there, was very much focused on the problem. 'How do we extract as much information as we can from a relatively small subset of data.' Statistics at Google and Facebook was much more concerned with ‘we are drowning in data, we have an overwhelming amount of data. How do we not delude ourselves?'""If you want to be a mentee, there's no work that you're too good to do. The best learning opportunities of my life came from situations where I was more than willing to roll up my sleeves and do things that are not sexy and are not cool."“I didn’t go back to engineering. I never stopped engineering. I was always engineering while I was doing this management stuff on the side. Recruiting and hiring, I enjoy. And I very much enjoy mentoring people. But I do not personally care about or tolerate sitting through a sprint review or doing a budget planning meeting or, god help me, sitting through a promotion process.”—Josh WillsIn this episode we’ll cover:What are the differences in studying statistics in school versus working as a statistician at Google or Facebook?Why Josh chose to be a high-level individual contributor (IC) over management.How Josh worked a full-time job at IBM while getting his master's degree.Additional ResourcesThe Manager's Path - by Camille FournierSoftware 2.0 by Andrej Karpathy - https://medium.com/@karpathy/software-2-0-a64152b37c35How to Take Smart Notes - by Sönke AhrensJosh's talk how to play well with others about mistakes he has made during his careerYou 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 Josh WillsTwitter: @josh_willsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-wills-13882b/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Chidamber Kulkarni. Chidamber has been working on various aspects of FPGA technology for 16+ years now. In the last 5-6 years his primary focus has been acceleration of database and related technologies. Chidamber is a founder & CTO of Reniac Inc, a company that specializes in database acceleration with FPGAs. Prior to Reniac, Chidamber was at Xilinx for 9 years as design engineer. Chidamber has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke, a research university in Belgium. Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“We are getting larger and larger chips. But the power density is something that has been almost constant for the last 5 or 7 years. That has been a limitation, and that's why they started scaling the number of cores in one chip. GPUs did that almost 10 years before the processors and the reason they had to do it is because they discovered parallelism in rendering. So they already had 64 cores and 128 cores by the time the uni-core became the dual core.""So there's literally 100 X that you can get with FPGAs. But the effort required to realize that implementation today is still quite high. The challenge for FPGA vendors is how to make that programming easier.""Skill is very important, but I think skill can be learned. What cannot be transplanted easily is aptitude and motivation."—Chidamber KulkarniIn this episode we’ll cover:Why did Chidamber leave academia for the FPGA space?What is the difference between CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs?When did Chidamber start rENIAC? Why did he choose to dive into accelerating open source databases?Additional ResourcesLearn more about field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_arrayLearn more about Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIACEp. 4 Goldman Sachs Saved My Tech Career, with Camille FournierYou 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 Chidamber KulkarniTwitter: @chidamberLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chidamber/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jeff Meyerson. Jeffrey Meyerson is the creator and host of the podcast Software Engineering Daily (@software_daily). He is also the founder of FindCollabs, a platform to find collaborators for ventures.Jeff definitely took a non-traditional path to software engineering. Before getting his degree he played poker professionally for 3 years and then became a poker coach!Post-college, he worked at a number of software companies including Amazon and eBay as an engineer. Pretty quickly, Jeff realized that he prefers to work for himself. These days he is a podcaster, founder, and investor. Click Here –> For more information about tech careersIn this episode we’ll cover:Why did Jeff start his tech podcast, Software Engineering Daily? How does it make money?What should you do if you feel out of place in tech? Is it worth it getting a remote job so that you can have more flexibility?Where is the podcast space headed? Is it saturated or is there still room to grow?Additional ResourcesSoftware Engineering Radio - Podcast by Robert Blumen. https://www.indiehackers.com - A good place to learn how to start a small businesshttps://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/114-jeff-meyerson-of-software-engineering-daily - Interview with Jeff Meyerson about podcasting!Charles Max Wood – From Programmer to Full-Time Podcast Wiz - Episode 31 of DevelomentorYou 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 Jeff MeyersonTwitter: @the_prionFollow Software Engineering Daily @software_dailyLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeff-meyerson-05275716/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Geoffrey Harcourt. Geoff Harcourt is the CTO at CommonLit, a non-profit that provides reading curriculum services in English and Spanish to students and teachers around the world. CommonLit currently serves over 15 million students between the 3rd and 12th grades. Before joining CommonLit he was a product engineering consultant at thoughtbot, where he worked with high-growth startups to help them tackle process and scaling problems. He previously worked as CTO of Cortex Building Intelligence, a startup whose product helps commercial real estate operators reduce their utility use. Geoff began his career working in several product-side roles and transitioned to engineering after learning how to code on nights and weekends. He majored in history in college.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“I want to work with people that are relentlessly curious. They don’t have to be a total expert at Ruby or Rails or PostgreSQL or the core technologies we use at CommonLit. But if I feel 6 months from now, their skillset will be even bigger than it was before, I think they can be a really good fit working with us.““I was a consultant sort of acting like a fill-in technical cofounder for startups that didn’t have a technical cofounder.““For me to learn a technical concept, I have to use it in a project I care about the results of.“—Geoff HarcourtIn this episode we’ll cover:What is it like working for an education nonprofit, CommonLit? What does Geoff look for when building his team as CTO?What did Geoff do after graduating with a history degree from Harvard?Why project-based learning is so important for Geoff in acquiring new skills?How Geoff got introduced to coding by running a website for his fantasy baseball league?Check out Geoffrey's startup Cortexintel - https://get.cortexintel.com/Learn more about CommonLit - https://www.commonlit.org/unsupported_browser.htmlLearn more about thoughtbot - https://thoughtbot.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/Follow Geoff HarcourtTwitter: @geoffharcourtLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/geoffharcourt/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jennifer Creighton. Jenn Creighton is a frontend architect and conference speaker. She lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online @gurlcode.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“Doing a major in English is very technically heavy, and so I think a lot of that transfers into engineering. You pay attention to composition a lot. You are working in specific languages, and so you’re getting used to what they look like, how they’re composed and what are the best practices with them.”—Jennifer CreightonIn this episode we’ll cover:Why Jenn chose not to get a formal degree in software engineeringHow is it that so many English majors become front end engineers?The differences between junior engineers, senior engineers, and software architects?Key Milestones[1:52] – Jennifer got a degree in English. She fell into the role of a content manager for several companies including The National Academy of Sciences. To manage websites, Jenn had to relearn HTML and CSS. This led her to become more and more technical. [3:45] – Jenn built a website when she was 14 years old and learned HTML and CSS. [6:20] – How did Jenn accidentally use Javascript when she was 14 and didn’t know it?[8:20] – Jenn describes lucking into her first technical role at Ralph Lauren. For a while, she was convinced she needed a formal degree in computer science but then chose the self-taught route. [13:40]- As she decided to leave Ralph Lauren, Jenn spent her nights and weekends preparing for legitimate technical interview. She had a few subpar interviews that served as early learning experiences. [16:05] – Jenn recalls finding her first mentor at Lover.ly, a startup she worked at. [20:02] – The differences between junior engineers, senior engineers, and software architects. How did Jenn’s expertise with React get her promoted quickly at ClassPass?[24:20] – Why do so many English majors get into front end software engineering?[28:20] – Jenn’s first speaking engagement was at the conference, Women Who Code 2018. But it was attending Write, Speak, Code that really put her in that position. In 2018, Jenn spoke at 10 conferences! [31:10] – How has speaking at conferences taken Jenn’s confidence and career to a whole new level? Why does Jenn monitor her pulse?To learn more about Write Speak Code Conference, click hereYou 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 Jennifer CreightonTwitter: @gurlcodeLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifercreighton/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Olivia Liddell. Olivia Liddell is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services. Over the course of her career, she has created innovative teaching and technical training solutions for learners from diverse backgrounds and skill levels.A Certified Ethical Hacker, Olivia frequently speaks on topics such as social engineering and security awareness. In her spare time, she enjoys distance running, studying linguistic anthropology, and developing web applications for Arabic language learners.Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“If I gave kids a worksheet and said ‘do this’ they would feel bored. After playing this computer game, not only were they saying ‘Ms. Liddell, I want to learn more about this’, but they were also competing with each other. They said ‘Arabic was fun!’“—Olivia LiddellIn this episode we’ll cover:What is social engineering?Mischievous activities Olivia did to get her family kicked off AOLWhat is the day to day of a curriculum developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)How sharing your ideas on Twitter will help you speak at conferencesKey Milestones[2:19 ] – In college, Olivia studied anthropology and middle eastern studies. After taking on jobs assisting higher education, Olivia decided to become a teacher through The Academy of Urban School Leadership. This was a big move for her. [4:49] – Olivia taught Arabic in middle schools. She had to work hard to engage her students, After some time, she started to incorporate her love for technology into teaching. [7:05] – There weren’t many language computer games out there. Yet there were plenty of games for math and science. This is when Olivia decided to take a shot at creating content and developing games. [10:30] – Olivia recalls talking to a mentor who inspired her to develop educational games.[14:30]- Olivia started writing content and games on AOL. She also recalls first encountering the ‘view source’ button and how it changed her life![17:27] – Olivia talks about how she keeps up with new technology. She has cultivated an inspiring twitter feed. She often prefers learning in tidbits as opposed to taking formal online classes. [19:24] – How did Olivia get into speaking at conferences? Listen to one of her speeches here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFiSHyUmCk[21:50] – Practical tips to improve your communication skills: Think about literally where is this person coming from? What was their morning like? 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/Follow Olivia LiddellTwitter: @OliRaviLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/olivialiddell/Website: https://www.olivialiddell.com/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll