Artsy Engineering Radio

Jackie Potts and Kaja Santro are both from a Ruby-backend background and working as software engineers at Artsy. In this episode they are talking about how it is to work in this area while also being dog moms and what their favorite Ruby gems are and what is so scary about frontend. They also just laugh and chuckle a lot on this episode, so prepare for some of those good vibrations coming your way!

Carlos joins Matt this week for another "Who Are You, And How Did You Get Here" episode! Tune in to learn how he went from building games with RPG Maker as a teenager in Brazil to working as a software engineer in Germany today. It's been quite a journey!

Ever wondered whether we run on Heroku or Kubernetes? How we monitor and deploy our apps? Tune in to this episode for an overview of Artsy's infrastructure choices with Senior Director of Engineering (and 10-year Artsy veteran!) Joey.

Today's episode is very special: Artsy engineer Erik is joined by 3 engineers who worked at United Airlines starting in the late 1970s (one of whom is his mom!), who share a look back at their careers and some amazing programming history. You don't want to miss this one!

Artsy hosted our 10th hackathon two weeks ago! Matt and Pavlos sit down to discuss how things went, how things changed from the last one, and talk about the projects we worked on, as well as others.

In engineering there are interesting sub paths of careers that you can grow into. One of them is the engineering management. What a great opportunity to hear from Elena, our new engineering manager! She will be talking to us about her own career but also about how to approach the switch into management if you are thinking about it.

While Artsy is originally based in NYC, the company has been making a lot of effort in the last year to hire a lot of people in Berlin in order to build up a big team in the German capital. Matt Dole and Kaja Santro talk about how that has been going for them and how they experienced the exciting process of the "Berlin Calling". 

Pavlos Vinieratos talks with Adam Butler, about Adam's mobile app that recently launched. It's called Reams, and it's a "Deeply Superficial RSS"!
We discuss how the idea came about, how the development went, the launch, and a bunch more.
Join us for the first episode of Whatchu working on (on the side), on Artsy Engineering Radio. More to come!

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A bittersweet episode, as Jon Allured and Matt Dole give Steve Hicks one last chance to reflect on his learnings at Artsy before he moves on. Hop up on grandpappy Steve's lap as he reminisces on what he's taking away from his experiences.

Notes

* Tanya Reilly's talk on Glue work - https://noidea.dog/glue
* One of Steve's dumb robot demo videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxCeI1Vz4E

Steve Hicks talks with Emily Marmoy-Haynes and Saj Rasul about Artsy's secret sauce to hiring -- the reference check! They dig into how Artsy uses these calls to identify the strongest candidates without subjecting them to excruciating tests.