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#11 The Journey of Adam Fraser


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Adam Fraser is a solutions architect. He is one of the top contributors to ZIO, a library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in functional Scala. Adam is the co-author of the ZIO Test and the author of ZIO Query. He is a conference speaker, writer, and mentor to other software developers regarding functional programming.

In this episode Adam talked about how he changed his career path from business & finances to programming and about his experience contributing in open source project and how he started working in Tech.

He shared some of his learning experiences and advice that helped him during his journey.

 

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00:00 - Introduction

02:14 - Starting his passion about programming
03:41 - Starting his first contribution to open source
05:11- His Education path  
05:55 - His inspiration to learn about programming
08:34 - How he kept the motivation to continue with programming while he was working in a different field
11:23 - How contributing in open source is helpful to learn faster
12:18 - His contribution on zio
14:00 - His career path till he got his first job in Tech
16:25 - The challenges that he has faced
19:51 - Supporting others in the zio community and working on his daily job
25:46 - About his first conference talk 
26:20 - About his book "ZIO Nomicon" with John De Goes
27:39 - Some guidance for people who are interested to start giving talks in Tech communities
32:09 - The Tech community events 
35:43 - The responsibility in maintaining open source libraries 
38:15 - Advice

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