After completely changing his life going through Code Academy (Academia de Código) and transitioning from a social sciences background to becoming a software developer at Mindera, Tiago Bahia started a YouTube channel with Pedro Vicente to help raise money for charity and institutions in need.

Checkout the show where Tiago and Pedro eat spicy food to raise money for charity: https://www.youtube.com/c/OQueArdeCura 

Senior Infrastructure Architect Joel Bastos shares his experience with Prometheus in the context of infrastructure monitoring. Along with Pedro Araujo, Joel is the co-author of Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus.

You can follow Joel on Twitter @kintoandar

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Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

Imagine a world where work is meaningful to everyone! That’s the purpose of Lemon Works and in this episode, Luís Simões shares his background and experiences that led him to become one of the founders and his vision of how Lemon Works can help traditional organisations become more human-centric. 

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

Long time friend and principal engineer Tiago Reis takes us through his journey from Java to Go highlighting the main differences in the languages and the software development patterns.

You can follow Tiago on Twitter @tiagoandrereis

Useful resources for learning Go:

- Go Tour: https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

- Effective Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

In five years, Infraspeak went from startup incubation to becoming one of the world leaders in infrastructure and facilities management systems. In this episode, Felipe shares his personal experiences developing and growing the company through this amazing journey.

Follow Felipe on Twitter @filipeacosta and checkout https://infraspeak.com/ for more information on Infraspeak.

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

In this episode, Pawel Grzybek shares his thoughts about the current state of web development. From current Javascript and CSS frameworks to cross-browser compatibility support and web assembly. 

Checkout Pawel blog at https://pawelgrzybek.com and follow on Twitter @pawelgrzybek

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Dashdash (now Rows) is a genuine success story in Portugal’s (and Porto’s) tech ecosystem. Humberto, founder and CEO, shares his background story, all the way from working with computer vision and self-driving cars in California to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Learn more about dashdash at https://dashdash.com/ and remember to follow Humberto on Twitter @patife

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ronnierain/expansion19

Connecting with your start-up’s customers:

Verónica Carrasco takes us through her journey from being a Computer Science lecturer in Ecuador to moving to the UK and joining the industry to become a full stack developer.

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Pedro Vicente takes us down memory lane from the early days of Android app development all the way up to 2020 and the modern application development strategies and frameworks.

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