Building With People For People: The Unfiltered Build Podcast

As software engineers we have the skills to make great tools but perhaps an even greater honor is the opportunity to teach and share our skills with others. In this episode we speak to an engineer who does just that, inspires future engineers through her community involvement.

Our guest today is Sierra Acy, a software engineer at HBO Max. She is a huge proponent of and loves helping others learn computer science and giving back to her community. When she volunteers and shares her knowledge, she is constantly reminded of why she loves software engineering.

Her love for community service began while in college at UT Austin organizing Hour of Code events for local schools. She has since spent a great deal of time organizing Disney’s Seattle internship program and is currently a teacher through the TEALSK12 program and a mentor with Mentors in Tech. Not only is Sierra a software engineer she is also a book cover and e-marketing material designer with over 20 published covers. Prior to working at HBO Max, she worked at The Walt Disney Company and Microsoft.

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Are you trying to decide if software engineering is the right path for you? Are you currently an engineering manager and want tips on how you can grow and foster a better team? Join me as I speak with Chief Operator of the Rube Goldberg machine (CTO of Kajabi), Mahesh Guruswamy, as he guides us through how he measures success in his role as CTO, his 6 tenants of conflict resolution, ways to build a learning culture, how to know if engineering management is right for you, and much more.

Mahesh has been in tech for over two decades and has held many different positions ranging from software engineer to Director of Architecture, to VP of Engineering at companies like Vanguard, Fidelity Investments, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Amazon Alexa, and Smartsheet. While in graduate school before he started his career in tech, he was a cashier at McDonald’s and through his interactions with the diverse clientele he discovered his knack for connecting and empathizing with all walks of life. As a self described “non-traditional” engineering leader he is a builder of product development teams and an angel investor.

Kajabi, an all-in-one business platform to create and scale your knowledge business.  They are hiring all types of positions including engineering, head over to their careers page to learn more.

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What is Apdex? It is an open standard used to measure user satisfaction using response times of applications and services. Join me as I breakdown what Apdex is and how to measure user satisfaction and convert measurements into insights using the Apex standard.

Software Sandbox episodes are byte-sized episodes focusing on one specific software topic delivered in 20 minutes or less.

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The Apdex calculation:

Satisfied Count + (Tolerating Count/2) / Total number of requests

*Count in the above calculation is also referred to as “Users”

Dan Degreef, one of my mentors, has been tinkering with online businesses since he was a teenager, has run multiple small businesses including an email marketing company and a software consulting business. He is a home brewer extraordinaire and is currently a software leader and problem solver working as a Staff developer at Indeed.com

By building relationships with others you can build your knowledge base and grow your career. Join us for an episode on mentoring, what it means to us as developers, the different types of mentoring relationships (yes we have defined a few) and ways to find mentors.  We also discuss the differences in working at small vs large companies, what it means to be a senior developer and more.

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Today we discuss DevOps and more specifically Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment, and how Gabe Levassuer's new product, Githax aims to help.

Gabe Levasseur is a passionate Software Engineer with a diverse background. He is a first generation college graduate who double majored in Computer and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. He also has a Masters Degree in Finance and is currently working on a Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He has an immense growth mindset, an insane drive to do better, be better, and he is always looking for ways to solve everyday problems, automate and optimize his life.

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Dezireé Teague is a software engineer who transitioned into tech from a career in bilingual education. She currently works at Committee for Children, a non-profit organization that strives to promote the safety, well-being, and success of children in school and in life. Dezireé is passionate about increasing diversity and inclusion in the tech space and is a strong advocate for web accessibility. When Dezireé isn't working, she is giving back to her community through youth mentorship, speaking at workshops, and inspiring future coders.

Join us as we discuss a non traditional journey into the software industry, how to reframe imposter syndrome, and reveal ways to make your product more accessible for everyone.

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