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James Turnbull is a Prolific Technical Author, Engineer of 25+ Years, and has worked in VP or CTO roles for various companies like, Glitch, Kickstarter, Docker, Venmo, Puppet, and Microsoft.
What we talked about:
How did you land so many cool Jobs?
Networking and remembering things about people
Coding as a CTO
Docker and Containers - Why they are awesome
Is Devops important as an Entry Level Engineer?
Learning as a Stairs instead of an Arc
Gatekeeping in Software Development
How to become a CTO
10X Engineers
Human Skills
Startups - How to be successful
Is Equity worth It at Startups?
How long should you stay at a company for?
Seeing People Learn and Grow as Developers
What I wish I would have known as a Junior Dev
Tim is a Mentor, Consultant, and Podcaster at DevJourney.Info.
What we talked about:
Links:
Long Lost Art Of Mentoring Presentation
Contact:
Rylan currently lives in Boulder, CO. He has been freelancing since April 2012 and consults on a variety of front-end and back-end client projects for start-ups and established companies.
He emphasizes clean, crafted, and tested code. Rylan works with proven technologies to architect applications that are easy to read, maintain, and iteratively improve upon. He builds, maintains, and improves web applications for several start-up clients.
How to Contact:
https://twitter.com/rylanb
http://www.rylanbowers.com/
Talking Points:
Notes:
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/04/26/you-get-what-you-give/
Boulder Ruby
Marty Haught: Engineering Director at Fastly. Tech community director at RailsConf, RubyConf and Boulder Ruby. Colorado. Husband. Foodie. Totally a dad.
Get in Touch with Marty
https://twitter.com/mghaught
Talking Points:
Douglas and Tyler discuss the 10X Developer. Do they exist? Does everyone have to try to be one? We also discuss the 1X Developer
Link to Show Notes:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-9-myth-of-the-10x-developer
Dan Moore has been in the programming game for 20 years. He has worked for Large companies like Oracle and Level 3, as well as small companies, startups, and in academia.
He is an author, blogger, presenter, and more.
If you would like to support Dan consider getting his book with 20% off (expires in Aug 2020) use coupon GiveMeMoore08 https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484260739
Connect with Dan:
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/
http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/
https://twitter.com/mooreds
What we talked about:
Full Show Notes Here:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-8-letters-to-a-new-developer-interview-with-dan-moore/
We talk about the principles of what you should learn next in your career as well as:
Links:
Complete Show Notes: - https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-7-what-should-you-learn-next/
https://timeflip.io/
toggl.com
https://www.rescuetime.com
Tiny Habits Book - https://amzn.to/3iPMAEB
Atomic Habits Book - https://amzn.to/3iPMAEB
The Phoenix Project Book - https://amzn.to/2CrdpxY
Jeff Shek is a seasoned lead engineer with exceptional experience in building distributed, reliable and maintainable code for web and enterprise systems. He has personally built, grown or mentored software engineering teams. At his last startup, HistoWiz, Jeff's primary focus was engineering an online platform for annotation, collaboration, machine learning algorithms and processing of digital histology.
Prior to HistoWiz, Jeff has served as either a technical lead, senior engineer, and/or product manager of NYC's well-known and fastest startups (Capsule Pharmacy, Artivest, YCharts). His open-source projects have been used by thousands of people.
Contact Info:
senrigan.io/blog
[email protected]
@shekkery
What we talked about:
Full Show Notes Here:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-6-overcoming-a-mid-level-crisis-interview-with-jeff-shek/
What We Discuss:
- Creating Software the Business Doesn't Want
- How to Focus on What Your Boss Cares About
- Technical Debt
- What is a Business Domain?
- Company Culture
- Conway's Law
- Question the Interviewers
Links:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/
https://agilemanifesto.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law#:~:text=From%20Wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia,introduced%20the%20idea%20in%201967.
https://xkcd.com/1205/
What We Discuss:
Link To Show Notes:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/junior-to-senior-dev-episode-4-interview-with-eric-weber-what-is-data-science/
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