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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Hyoun Park.

Park has an MBA from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Amherst College.

Hyoun Park is the CEO and Founder of Amalgam Insights, an industry analyst firm focused on managing technology at scale for emerging business models. Over the past 20+ years, Park has been at the forefront of trends such as Moneyball, social networking, Bring Your Own Device, data monetization, and the Subscription Economy working with startups, large enterprises, and the investment community. 

Park has been quoted in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Barron’s, and a wide variety of mainstream and technology press sources. Although he primarily works with enterprise technologies, Park has a soft spot in his heart for new and innovative technology startups and is dedicated to supporting greater gender and cultural diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Episode Summary

“Part of being a market-facing analyst is doing the webinars, speaking on stage, the executive presentations that you don’t necessarily think about as an individual technology contributor.”

—Hyoun Park

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. How Hyoun chose not to go to medical school and instead majored in gender studies
2. What its like learning computer science on your own terms without a formal education
3. The day to day of a market-facing tech industry analyst. Hint: There’s more to it than just conducting research.

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mark DiMassimo. 

Mark DiMassimo (Creative Director) is Chief of DiMassimo Goldstein, an “inspiring action” agency which he founded in 1996.  

A creative entrepreneur since his teens, DiMassimo began his agency career working for the author of “Direct Marketing: Strategy, Planning & Execution." 

DiMassimo set a goal to start an agency that would bring the benefits of great brand building to direct model innovators, particularly those that offer life-changing services directly to clients.

The promise would be simple: drive brand value up and cost-per-acquisition down.

This immediately led to his participation in over fifty historic firsts, including the first social network (SixDegrees.com) the first Internet delivery service (Kozmo.com), the first online weight loss company (eDiets) and the first electronic stock trading network (Island ECN, INET, INSTINET, NASDAQ).

Before starting his own agency, DiMassimo spent a decade of making tongues wag with his work for a who’s-who of top direct and integrated Madison Avenue agencies, including BBDO, J. Walter Thompson, Chapman Direct Advertising, Deutsch and Kirshenbaum & Bond.

Mark is the author of Digital@SPEED, and co-founder of the Tappening and Offlining movements. He serves as the Chair of the Creative Development Board of the Partnership to End Addiction, and has served on the board of Rare and of the Financial Communications Society. He was named a Future 50 CEO by SmartCEO magazine in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

DiMassimo is featured in the best-selling book Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs, by Eric Yaverbaum. He is co-author of Inside the Minds: INNOVATION and Branding as an Advertising Strategy and is featured in Passion Brands, by Kate Newlin, for which he also wrote the foreword. A familiar face on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, FoxNews, and Fox5NY, DiMassimo is often quoted in the media. 

Mark teaches advertising undergrads at The School of Visual Arts. Mark lives in Rye, NY, and is the happy husband of Jill and the devoted father of Max, Alex and Jack.

About DiMassimo Goldstein (DiGo) 

DiMassimo Goldstein is an inspiring action agency. We help life-changing brands grow by helping people make more inspiring decisions and form more empowering habits. We've done this for WW, WeightWatchers, HelloFresh, Jackson Hewitt, Shutterstock, Nasdaq, Avon, Ideal Image, National Jewish Health, Sallie Mae, CVS Health, Rare, The Wildlife Conservation Society, The Partnership to End Addiction, and several clients so prestigious we have agreed not to mention them here.

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mike Gualtieri. 

Mike Gualtieri has more than 25 years of experience in the industry helping design and develop mission-critical applications in eCommerce, insurance, banking, travel/hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology for organizations including NASA, eBay, Bank of America, Liberty Mutual, Nielsen, EMC, and many others. His background is that of a practitioner, having written thousands of lines of code, managed development teams, and architected complex systems.

Mike's research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver digital transformations that lead to prescient digital experiences and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology coverage areas are AI and emerging technologies that make software faster, smarter, and transformative for global enterprises and organizations. He advises enterprise decision-makers and executive leaders around the world on the intersection of business strategy, AI, and digital transformation.

Mike is a recipient of the Forrester Courage Award for making bold calls that inspire leaders and guide great business and technology decisions.

He is a frequent and highly sought-after speaker at industry, corporate, educational, and technology events for his audience-designed, insightful, and energetic speeches.

Mike provides technology vendors with actionable, fine-tuned advisory sessions on strategy, messaging, competitive analysis, buyer-persona analysis, market trends, and product roadmaps for the areas he directly covers and adjacent areas that wish to launch into new markets or use new technologies.

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Episode Summary

"This is one of the best jobs in the world for me because of the level of access I have to CEOs of very large tech companies and CTOs. A lot of learning just comes naturally with the job."

—Mike Gualtieri

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. How Mike stays ahead of trends to influence some of the largest companies in tech?
2. How often does Forrester publish reports? What are the differences between tech journalists and tech analysts?
3. Why taking an online class on machine learning is often a waste of time?
4. What is it like working as a software architect at a bank?

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Eric Bowman. 

Eric Bowman is SVP Engineering at TomTom, which he rejoined in 2019 to help shape TomTom’s engineering culture for an increasingly online future. Previously, Eric was Zalando’s first VP Engineering, where he drove Radical Agility and led the engineering team into the cloud and oversaw huge growth and change at the company. A 25-year industry veteran, Eric has been a technical leader at multiple startups as well as global companies including Gilt Group, Three, Electronic Arts, and Maxis, where he was one of the three amigos who coded The Sims 1.0

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Episode Summary

"I'm constantly humbled when I look back at just how very difficult it was to create this sort of immersive experience. Essentially the standard is to recreate something that matches reality. It is humbling to try and do that."

—Eric Bowman

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. What it was like being one of 3 programmers working on The Sims
2. Why going into video games is a super risky venture
3. Timeless principles that helped Eric come into organizations and change the culture
4. Why the west coast is unique in terms of tech entrepreneurship

Key Milestones

[2:01] – Eric wanted to be a physicist but programmed on the side while in school. His first job was at Maxis, the sim city franchise. Eric decided to join the team for what would eventually become 'The Sims'.
[4:30] – After leaving Maxis, Eric worked at plenty of companies including a startup, a phone company, a fashion flash sale company as well as others. He's currently at Tomtom.
[10:38] – Eric talks about what it was like working on The Sims in the early days. Unlike today, back then teams for videogames were small! He explains why video games are a risky venture and most video games fail.
[15:33] – It took some time for Eric to transition from programmer to engineering manager. Though it was a challenging move or him, it came down to making a greater impact.
[20:34]- What Eric looks for when hiring? Leadership, impact and growth mindset are major pillars to consider.
[25:29] – Why are more and more people hiring senior managers to change the culture of their company? Eric often looks for timeless principles when managing his teams and organizations, not necessarily new ideas. How can slack and chat ops change the culture?
[30:09] – What are the pros and cons of the tech culture in the US versus Europe. Why the Europe tech scene can be more stable but the boldness of Silicon Valley and the West Coast is unlike any place in the world.

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jono Bacon.

Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, developer workflow, and other services. He also previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, OpenAdvantage, and consulted and advised a range of organizations.

Bacon is a prominent author and speaker on community management and best practice. His most recent book, People Powered, came out in 2019. Jono also wrote the best-selling The Art of Community (O’Reilly), is the founder of the primary annual conference for community managers and leaders, the Community Leadership Summit as well as the Open Collaboration Conference. He is a regular keynote speaker at events about community management, organizational leadership, and best practice.

Bacon has provided community management consultancy for both internal and external communities for a range of organizations. This includes Deutsche Bank, Huawei, GitLab, Intel, SAP, HackerOne, data.world, Sony Mobile, Samsung, Open Compute Project, IBM, Dyson, Mozilla, FINOS Foundation, Executive Centre, AlienVault, and others. He holds advisory positions at AlienVault, Moltin, data.world, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium.

In addition to author, Bacon is also a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, author of Dealing with Disrespect, and co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks (O’Reilly), and Official Ubuntu Book (Prentice Hall). Bacon has written over 500 articles across 12 different publications. He writes regularly for a range of magazines.

Bacon was the co-founder of the popular LugRadio podcast, which ran for four years with 2million+ downloads and 15,000 listeners, as well as spawning five live events in both the UK and the USA, and co-founded the Shot Of Jaq podcast. He co-founded the Bad Voltage podcast, a popular show about technology, Open Source, politics, and more.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California with his wife, Erica, and their son, Jack.

Episode Summary

"Community managers are knee-deep in the community engaging with people on forums, social media, doing talks, generating content; all the nitty-gritty kind of work that you need to keep the community engaged"

—Jono Bacon

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. Jono's latest book - 'People Powered'. Its a business book written for a broad audience to shift our thinking around communities in the new era. 
2. The difference between community managers, community evangelists, directors of community and developer relations
3. Why Jono Bacon LOVES open source? And why he helped build Jokosher, an open source multi-track recording software for editing podcasts?

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Simon Willnauer.

Simon is one of the main developers of Apache Lucene and a Lucene committer. He is also a PMC member and Apache Software Foundation member. 

Simon has led Elasticsearch's core development for over five years and co-founded the Berlin Buzzwords conference on search, store, and scalability.

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Episode Summary

"The big common denominator between concurrency problems and other big problems is that they usually are not solved in front of the computer"

—Simon Willnauer

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. The founding stories of Elasticsearch and Berlin Buzzwords!
2. What is the future of search? Why is Java limited in its capabilities?
3. Why the most challenging computer problems are best solved AWAY from the computer. Simon has had breakthroughs while running!

Key Milestones

[1:43] – Simon wrote his first line of code when he was 22. He was working at a computer security company when he got introduced to Lucene. Open source captured Simon's attention, and a few years later, he co-founded Elasticsearch
[7:23] – Simon was a mechanic before going to university. He got into coding because it was creative and had endless possibilities. 
[9:43] – Simon mentions his early career mentors. Now, as a mentor himself, Simon points out that mentorship is bidirectional: he always learns from his mentees as well.
[12:39] – Solving challenging problems involves making a mental model and solving them away from the computer. Simon solves many problems while exercising!
[15:15]- The founding stories of Elasticsearch and Berlin Buzzwords!
[18:59] – What goes into running Berlin Buzzwords? Hint: running a conference is stressful!
[24:22] – What were the difficulties in founding Elasticsearch? 
[28:09] - How to deal with founding a company and dealing with handing responsibility to others. At first. it's challenging, but success is when the company can run without you at the center of it. 
[31:08] - What is the future of search? Why is Java limited in its capabilities? It's great that we're increasing computing power, but we also must change the way we think about search
[37:29] - The importance of Lucene and how many companies and products are inspired by it. 

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Rebecca Watson. 

Rebecca Weeks Watson is a digital media and tech entrepreneur who has been awarded two U.S. patents. After starting her career in finance and then consulting for Match.com, she decided to pursue her interest in the startup world. She was on the founding team and led Business Development for two different marketing technology companies, one of which was acquired by Meredith Corporation. During that time she led the product development, launch, and distribution of social media products that became adopted by publishers and brands with a total of 200 million users worldwide. 

She has spoken at 50 conferences nationwide and founded a groundbreaking interview series called The Reveal that uncovers the personal stories of world-class leaders. Currently, she enjoys teaching a Lean Startup class at Davidson College and lecturing at UVA’s undergraduate school of business.

Episode Summary

"Too often I think people in the startup world feel like they have to know all the answers. They have to build these perfect shiny bright products to then reveal to the world. And at that point, it's too late."

—Rebecca Watson

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. What is relationship building and why it is key in any venture
2. Why Rebecca often reads headlines on LinkedIn instead of books
3. How technical do you have to be to do tech sales?
4. What is pre-selling? Why it is an essential tool for startups to build a product that users crave. 

Key Milestones

[1:53] – Rebecca fell in love with finance in school and decided to become an investment banking analyst. She got an early opportunity to work in Silicon Valley with founders and operators.
[2:57] – Doing analysis got monotonous, so Rebecca moved to LA and accepted a job organizing summits for digital media creators. Soon Rebecca decided to co-found a software company focused on facilitating digital media.
[4:56] – Being recognized in business development, Rebecca joined another startup to help them optimize software. She was the first person involved in sales before the product was even built! In 4 years, Rebecca helped build the company from no revenue to 90 million.
[6:02] – Rebecca became a consultant when she had kids. She also kept producing summits for thought leaders. The summits led to her creating her own video series, The Reveal.
[10:23]- Initially, money drew Rebecca to finance. Why did she get out of finance? Rebecca talks about visiting a career counselor for gaining clarity.
[12:49] – What is pre-selling? Why it is an essential tool for startups to build a product that users crave.

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Laurie Barth.

Laurie is a Staff Software Engineer on the Gatsby Learning Team as well as a conference speaker, egghead instructor and member of the TC39 Educators committee. As a technical blogger, Laurie is a contributor to various publications, including CSS Tricks and Smashing Magazine. When she isn't writing code you can find her playing board games and eating cupcakes with her puppy, Avett. 

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Episode Summary

"I'm a very plan oriented person and I never had a plan to be a speaker or a blogger or an instructor. It was more of, I tried something out, and it led to something else, and it led to something else".

—Laurie Barth

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. Why technical blogging led Laurie to become an instructor at Egghead.io
2. How much did a Masters in Computer Science help Laurie with her career? The answer is somewhat surprising!
3. Why Laurie didn't accept jobs at Disney and SpaceX to work from home in DC. 
4. How Laurie stays up to date with all the front end frameworks? Some frameworks mentioned are: Svelte, Angular, React, Vue, GraphQL

Key Milestones

[1:45] – Laurie thought she would end up in law school. But while interning, she was forced to take a computer science class and this changed the course of her career.
[4:35] – After college, Laurie worked as a program manager for the federal government. She hated it and decided to apply to become a software engineer. As an engineer, she worked at several companies before joining Gatsby.
[9:40] – Laurie talks about how she got involved in the speaking circuit and how she picks out conferences. She mentions how much insight she got from the Kansas City Developer Conference. 
[13:18] – How Laurie got into blogging? And how technical blogging led her to become an instructor at Egghead.io.
[16:42]- Laurie talks about different mentors she's had in her career. She also talks about how she decided on her first junior level developer job.
[23:38] – How much did a Masters in Computer Science help Laurie with her career? Would she recommend it to others?
[26:40] – Laurie learned Java, Python, PHP because she was a consultant and needed to be knowledgeable for her clients. Lately, she gravitates more to front-end development.
[31:33] - Laurie explains why she didn't accept jobs at Disney and SpaceX to work from home in DC. 
[35:52] - How Laurie stays up to date with all the front end frameworks? Some frameworks mentioned are: Spelt, Angular, React, View, GraphQL

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kim Maida. 

Kim is the Head of Developer Relations at Auth0 and is a Google Developer Expert in Angular and Web Technologies. She's passionate about identity, authentication, constant learning, and developer communities. As a developer advocate, engineer, and international speaker, she loves learning from and sharing with other inhabitants of the tech space. She also enjoys mentoring engineers who are interested in leadership.

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Episode Summary

"I basically want to come up with ways that the company can interact with developers through us to get the developers the best experience that we can give them and also sort of bring their feedback back into the company in an effective way"

—Kim Maida

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. How Kim got into tech after studying biology, zoology, neurobiology and animal behavior in college. 
2. Strategies for dealing with burnout. How do you move forward when you are feeling exhausted?
3. How Kim got her first speaking opportunity. What are some strategies for practicing?

Key Milestones

[1:40] – Kim studied biology, zoology, neurobiology and animal behavior in college. After working in the field for a bit, she decided to go back to school to become a dietician. She got her first tech job in tech doing web development for the university and finally saw it as a viable career option. 
[4:07] – In school, Kim switched her degree to web and digital media and worked at various media agencies, where she worked her way up to engineering manager. She really enjoyed working with engineers and decided to make that her career
[6:32] – Kim explains how she performed bee research and how bees 'waggle dance'
[8:59] – Kim reflects that she never saw herself getting in tech and development. She thought she would become a scientist, and always did web development on the side to help pay for bills. 
[12:56]- What it's like working in academia as a non-professor? Kim talks about advantages universities. This includes benefits, cutting edge research, and having a lot of funding without having to talk to investors. 
[18:12] – Why did Kim become a developer advocate after working at digital agencies? She felt disconnected from clients working at digital agencies. This is when Kim started blogging for Auth0 and started to grow her content/branding skillset. 
[20:06] – Kim talks about her first speaking opportunity and how it came unexpectedly. She never spoke at a conference before, but she accepted the opportunity. This was outside of her comfort zone, but she enjoyed the experience so much, Kim decided to make speaking a full-time gig.
[23:11] - How does Kim prepare for speaking engagements? She recommends talking in front of a mirror, practicing in front of people, and recording yourself. 
[27:15] - Kim talks about dealing with burnout. How do you move forward when you are feeling exhausted?
[30:56] - What is the day to day of a developer advocate? Its to strategically form relationships with developers. Sometimes this means speaking at conferences, sometimes it means setting up a booth at trade shows to answer questions. 
[42:33] - Kim talks about hiring. Why culture fit is crucial not just within a company, but also within a team

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Charles Max Wood.

Charles Max Wood guides developers in being successful developers and building terrific lives through programming at maxcoders.io. He's also on a mission to create a podcast for every programming community. He loves connecting with new people, talking about code, and hanging with his family.

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Episode Summary

"I've had mentors and people to help me build my career and I want to help other people do that too."

—Charles Max Wood

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. What steps did Charles take to make podcasting profitable? 
2. Why it's essential to reach out to mentors! Charles sat next to David Heinemeier Hanson at a conference and asked him to be on a podcast
3. How did having a podcast help Charles get clients when he was an independent contractor?
4. Why it is still a great time to get into podcasting! Charles thinks podcasts will be much more mainstream in the future.

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