Developer's Journey

Jen took us to the beginning of her STEM journey, with the goal to walk the footsteps of Ayanna Howard, but life wanted otherwise. Nevertheless, she found her way to coding. We nostalgically talked about dev-jobs in the 90s and early 2000s. We spoke about web development, accessibility and advocacy.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/knitcodemonkeyhttps://www.deque.com/axe/axe-for-webTalk from Marcy Sutton - Where in the Stack is Carmen Sanfrancisco?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsUsgBYCIcAyanna Howard: https://howard.ece.gatech.eduCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading the word about this podcast. And please leave a rating on the podcasting platforms. This is the

Jeff first told us how he went from coding games for fun, to selling software as a teenager, to solving problems on the deck of an aircraft carrier. We then talked about contracting and running a contracting business, and drifted toward entrepreneurship. Jeff finally told us the birth story of Titanium in 2006 and his new  startup pinpoint.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/jhayniehttps://github.com/pinpthttps://github.com/jhayniehttps://pinpoint.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appcelerator_TitaniumCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading the word about this podcast. And please leave a rating on the podcasting platforms. This is the best way to increase the visibility

We first started talking about how I dabbled into the world of computers, mostly through gaming and tinkering. We then talked about my studdies and my wish to go into (buildings) architecture and keen interest into leadership. We discussed the origin of the show and what I learned from it. We discussed my superpower(s) and what use I make of them. We went over the effects of hosting the podcast in everyday life and how I am able to convince.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/timothephttps://timbourguignon.frhttps://mentoring.rockshttps://seecfp.comTalk to me 1-1: https://bit.ly/one_on_one_with_timThe host of this show is Amitai Schleier https://www.twitter.com/schmonzhttps://schmonz.com/CreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your(regular) hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.The gest-host of

Anjana started by clarifying what Computational Linguistics is, and the research she did in this field. We then talked about idiomatic programming and echo-chambers, which led us to talking about communities. Anjana then described the coding retreat she did in 2015 and how it was a forming experience in her life. We finished the interview by talking about Developer Advocacy and Public Speaking.Anjana suffers from a debilitating case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer/advocate at Observable, she can often be found coding from her home base in San Francisco; that is, when she's not speaking at events around the world to share the joy of programming and promote a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Mozilla TechSpeakers!Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/AnjanaVakilhttps://observablehq.comhttps://www.recurse.comhttps://www.outre

Doug's first told us how discovering computers triggered his curiosity. He explained how he created Mods for Half-Life and realized his calling toward software development. He told us about his first years as a Web Developer, and how he accidentally moved to mobile development. Doug explained how he started working for media companies and one thing leading to the next, taking over management roles and what he learned out of it.Doug Arcuri is a husband, father of 2, and software professional with 15 years of experience in the industry. He started with software engineering in the late 1990s, modifying the game Half-Life. Doug worked in Radiology, Payroll, and web site development. He then specialized in iOS/Android mobile development for media, magazines and streaming clients at HBO and Nickelodeon. He recently embraced engineering management at IBM. In his spare time he enjoys motorcycling, plastic scale modeling, F1 racing, and building LEGO.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/dougarcu

Joe fist took us through the first few forming years of his career. From developing UNIX workstations and producing fantastic-but-useless software, to doing his first group trainings and learning his chops as a manager. We also touched on entrepreneurship and Joe's secret recipe to success!Joe Drumgoole is Global Director of Developer Relations at MongoDB. He has over 30 years of product development experience. He still writes software (slowly) most days. His programming weapon of choice is Python. In his career he has founded startups, and led development teams that have built back end financial systems, internet banking software and core infrastructure. At MongoDB he runs the global advocacy and developer content programs.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/jdrumgoolehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jdrumgoolejoe.drumgoole@mongodb.comhttps://developer.mongodb.comhttps://community.mongodb.comCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is

Dylan first told us about his childhood in Zimbabwe and his first computers. Then we spoke about his further discoveries in the UK. We continued talking about technology stacks and modularity. Dylan then spoke about public speaking and his job at Skillsmatter. We finally touched on the Rockstar programming language.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/dylanbeattiehttps://dylanbeattie.nethttps://ursatile.comhttps://www.twitter.com/Ursatilehttps://codewithrockstar.comForthcoming virtual events:https://fwdays.com/en/event/dotnet-fwdays-2020https://ndcporto.comhttps://ndcoslo.comhttps://dotnext-piter.ru/enCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading the word about this podcast.

Lara first took us through her start as a biologist... or was it statistician? She then took us through her learning to code on her own, and finding a job as a QA Engineer. She then explained how she slowly moved into an Android developer role, without strong-arming her boss... too much ;) We then talked about her discovering Flutter and becoming a Google Developer Expert. We finally talked about representation in our industry, public speaking and remote work!Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/larikihttps://medium.com/@laramartinhttps://laramartin.devhttps://sketchnoting.devCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading the word about this podcast. And please leave a rating

Michael started by telling us about his Math studies, and how the coding-tool finally took precedence over it. We talked about his role in a (cool) UX/visualization startup and how he really learned to code there. Michael told us how he dipped his toes into public speaking and how it got him his next job into trainings... and was the birth of his current endeavor: 2 podcasts and his own training company.Michael Kennedy is an entrepreneur, a father of three girls, a husband, a student, and a teacher. Michael is the founder and host of Talk Python To Me, a weekly podcast about Python and related software developer topics. He is a the founder and chief author at Talk Python Training, where many leading Python developer courses are available online.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/mkennedyhttps://blog.michaelckennedy.nethttps://talkpython.fmhttps://training.talkpython.fmhttps://pythonbytes.fmCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is h

Guilherme first came to coding via Web-Development. But after a while, he lost interest and was almost ready to change career and stop coding. That's when he got his first Mac... and just before the iPhone came out. He then told us of his first Mac Apps, then iOS Apps. How he found the ideas for them and what he learned from releasing small and big apps alike. We finally touched on writing for the 9to5Mac site and hosting the Stacktrace podcast.Gui's official job, is building apps for both the Mac and iOS. He has been passionately building beautiful UIs, fluid animations, and great user experiences since the early days of the iPhone SDK. But Gui is perhaps best known for his reverse engineering, his articles on 9to5Mac, and for being the cohost of the Stacktrace Podcast.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/_insidehttps://rambo.codeshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/chibistudio/id1135307199https://gumroad.com/l/airbuddyCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your host

Tracy took us all the way back to the creation of her first startup as a "non-technical founder". She told us about her dabbling with technology and how she learned to code. We talked about getting in the zone and relationships. We talked about passion and success. We discussed how to find ideas be scratching your own itch, as well as tips to make your weeks successful.Tracy is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a mentoring and consulting firm, helping teams build front-end applications. She is a Google Developer Expert, an RxJS Core Team member, a WomenTechmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker. She also leads Community Relations at the Node Foundation and she is the host of the Modern Web podcast to name only a few.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/ladyleethttps://www.thisdot.co/labsCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who ded

Harald first told us how he came to graphics programming: curiosity. We then talked about his first internships and jobs in the healthcare industry. We discussed what quality means in such a heavily regulated environment. We then talked about how his views on software quality and furthermore pair programming evolved through the years. We finally zoomed in on his upcoming coding tour, what it is, how it is organized and why you should consider it too!Harald is an enthusiastic software engineer with 10 years of professional experience working in different areas of visual and spatial computing. He likes delivering high-quality software, but he also likes working on prototypes/MVPs for measuring traction before adding later-on required complexity. Inspired by Peter "Code Cop" Kofler, Amitai Schleier, and Corey Haines he decided to go on a pair-programming tour in the US in March/April 2020, right about the time this podcast will air.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/Harald3DCVIntrod

Khaled surprisingly started by telling us how he loved machines, but not code... until he discovered that he could create value for customers. We then discussed his first jobs and how he moved to France. Khaled told us about learning humility and discovering that, after all, he knows nothing. Khaled then told us about how he discovered the software crafters movement and got involved with SOCRATES. We finally moved - with him - to Canada, and discussed building a new software crafters community over there.Khaled is a passionate Globe-trotter developer from Tunisia. He lived in Paris where he took part in the French and European software crafters community. He currently lives in Montréal in Canada and the co-organizer of Software Crafters Montréal meetup and the SOCRATES Canada unconference. He likes to speak about crafting software, clean code, XP and DevOps practices.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/khaledsoufBook : The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt https://amzn.

Hadelin first spoke about his entrepreneurship mindset. This was already in his mind early on, and never left him. We spoke about his interest for math, science and technology and how it drove him to one of the best French engineering schools. We talked about him discovering Data Science and how he changed his major at the very last minute. We then talked about his professional life. How he got to work at google, and why he didn't reconduct his contract and chose to create online courses instead. We spoke about his further business ventures, all the way to BlueLife, his current company. We finished talking about AI as a whole and finding your purpose to do good in life.Hadelin is the co-founder and CEO of BlueLife AI which leverages AI for optimizing processes, maximizing efficiency and increasing profitability. Hadelin is also an online entrepreneur, who has created educational e-courses about Machine Learning, Deep Learning, AI and Blockchain, which have reached over half a million customers worldwide.

Lydia first took us through her discovery of JavaScript via the theming of Tumblr page. She then told us about how she decided not to go to university and go for a boot camp instead. Lydia explained us how she then dipped her toes into freelancing, remote work and digital nomad-life... and would never go back to an "office work" anymore. All along the way, we discussed her decision making processes, mentoring, networking, work-life-balance, routines and burn-out.Lydia Hallie is a 21-year-old web developer, software consultant, international speaker, course instructor, and tech influencer with a great passion for coding. She codes and studies computer science intensively, mentors developers, writes technical content, and shares her passion for programming intensively on social media.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/lydiahalliehttps://dev.to/lydiahallieAdvice From A 19 Year Old Girl & Software Developer: https://medium.com/@lydiahallie/advice-from-a-19-y-o-girl-software-devel

Denise's choice for STEM and maths was a no brainer, but the rest of the journey wasn't as clear. There were many forks along the way. Denise first told us about her maths studies and how she inadvertedly discovered graphs theory. She described how her aversion for a focus on teaching led her to digging deeper into the graphs field that became the subject of her PhD. We the talked about moving from academia to the industry. Denise told us about her job at the startup PokitDok and how it felt to combine the rigor or data science with the willingness to move fast of the startup world. We brushed over her experience as an evangelist. And finally we talked about DataStax and Denise's role working on OpenSource, with Cassandra, the NoSQL movement and some of the most brilliant minds in the graph theory space. Denise finished by giving us two advices: don't be afraid to fail, and trust yourself!Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/DeniseKGosnellhttps://github.com/denisekgosnell

Jamison quickly took us through his studies, how he zoomed in on computer sciences... not without a few detours beforehand. We talked about his part time jobs and how he learned what a bad manager can be. We then jumped forward a few years to talk about management, what it takes to do a good job there, the challenges and successes of the function. We finished talking about two dreaded responsibilities of a manager: hiring and firing and how Jamison made his way through this.Jamison is a code whisperer and experienced product engineer. He has led teams and been led. Jamison is currently an engineering manager at Walmart Labs leading a distributed team in building delightful APIs and UIs that configure Walmart’s performance systems. He also co-hosts the "Soft Skills Engineering podcast". If this name is new to you, you should definitely listen to Episode 77 of this very DevJourney podcast where I interviewed Dave Smith, the other half of the co-hosts of this show. Oh and Jamison thinks you are great!H

Shedrack first took us through his discovery of Python coding and his engineering studies. We talked about how his first mentor opened his eyes on the coding world, and how he quickly moved into it. We then moved to the jobs Shedrack did on the side during his studies and how this prepared him for becoming a contractor. We then discussed the remote gigs he did, and how it is to work with different cultures. We talked about fears, trust, learning and communication. We then discussed about Shedrack's last job... which is not entirely remote, and how this new situation feels to him. Finally, we jumped over to talk about open source software development and communities and the work Shedrack is doing for OpenSource Africa.Shedrack is a Software Developer from Nigeria. He is a strong lover of community building and is a huge fan of Open Source Software Development. He leads the ReactJS clan of the Facebook Developers Circles Lagos, Nigeria. And spends the rest of his free time playing soccer or listening to mu

Molly first brushed over her unusual path to dev... via aerospace engineering and options trading. Then we focused on her journey as a Ruby developer and how she slowly got into Site Reliability Engineering. After defining the term and devising on it, we slowly moved to her current job as an SRE-Lead at Dev.to. Molly finished on a high note, bringing one fantastic advice after the other, about mentoring, expectations, leadership, and much more. Molly Struve is the Lead Site Reliability Engineer for the blogging platform dev.to. During her time working in the software industry, she has had the opportunity to work on some challenging problems, including scaling Elasticsearch, sharding MySQL databases, and creating an infrastructure that can grow as fast as a booming business. When not making systems run faster, she can be found fulfilling her need for speed by riding and jumping her show horses.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/molly_struvehttps://dev.to/molly_struvehttps://www.railstutoria

Reuven took us on a rollercoaster, from his discovery of programming, his first classes and tryouts, to his life changing discovery on the Web while at MIT. He took us through his first jobs and taught us how he became a consultant. We discussed his experience as a broad T-Shaped consultant, and slowly converged toward his training business. We then focused on learning, teaching and the key skills required to strive in this business. We finally finished brushing over the history of Reuven's new book "Python Workout", how it came to be, and how it is going to influence his business in the future.Reuven is a full-time Python trainer. He teaches courses at companies in the US, Europe, Israel, India, China and of course, online. Among other activities, Reuven has been running Lerner Consulting since 1995. He is also the CTO of "Rent Like a Champion", an event-based home-rental company based in Chicago. And on the side, Reuven pushes his newsletter called “Better developers” to more than 1