Software Developers Journey

This year was crazy, time for a review.

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Wesley took us from his first job as a bench nerd, through his student job at Centaur and his tenure at Dell. He explained in detail how those jobs helped him develop empathy, learn how to communicate with people, relate to them, and explain the technology. We transitioned to his time at IBM, MongoDB, and Daily, discovering developer relations and finding where he belonged all along.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/wesley83
• Daily | 1-click video chat API
• https://www.devrelcon.net
• https://redmonk.com/jgovernor
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_Technology

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Natalia took us along her whole career. From her computer engineering studies to her first job as a DBA, to her learning javascript. We then followed her footsteps toward Vue.js and how she slowly but surely embraced open-source, communities, conferences, teaching, and became the accomplished front-end engineer, core team member of the Vue.js framework and the GDE we know.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/N_Tepluhina
• https://v3.vuejs.org
• https://workshops.vuevixens.org
• https://ng-girls.org
• https://scalac.io
• https://svelte.dev
• https://about.gitlab.com

The 3 mentors Natalia mentioned:

• https://twitter.com/ktrz__
• https://devjourney.info/Guests/102-JenLuker.html
• https://twitter.com/FilipaLacerda

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Jackie took us from her first magazine and philosophy major to the realization that a software engineering background could help her realize her dreams. We then discussed her studies, her first internship, and her first job. We talked about moving from New York to SanFrancisco, and back. We talked about refocusing your life and the societal impact of tech. We finally talked about Jackie's projects "The Framework Project" and "IRL Society".

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/jackiehluo
• http://jackieluo.com
• https://irlsociety.com
• https://www.theframeworkproject.com
• http://medium.com/@jackiehluo

Buy candles made by Jackie, all profits go to charity (shipping anywhere in the U.S.): https://airtable.com/shrnETe5Pp3IeeU5o

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Paula told us how she was introduced to computers at a very young age. She told us how she learned to program and to solve problems her own way. She took us through her whole career, learning when being bored, and growing into the very deep software engineer she is today. She told us about writing Asami & Naga and how she started working in Open-Source.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/quoll
• https://github.com/quoll
• https://github.com/threatgrid/asami
• https://github.com/threatgrid/naga
• https://vimeo.com/28793245

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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We talked about Emmanuel's start building an Amazon Concurrent at the French FNAC Company. We spoke about making architectural decisions, experiencing freedom, and Conway's Law. Emmanuel described how he discovered Hibernate, fell into OSS, and finally joined JBoss. We then discussed the acquisition of JBoss by Redhat, the cultural-chances, and the problems that ensued. We finally touched on getting into open source.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/emmanuelbernard
• https://emmanuelbernard.com/blog
• https://lescastcodeurs.com
• https://www.redhat.com
• https://quarkus.io
• Open Decision Framework: https://github.com/red-hat-people-team/open-decision-framework & https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Ev took us from his CGI-animator studies and job, through the forks on his journey. First to become a programmer. Then pivot with his company, away from animation. Then again, toward data science, and finally, embrace management all the way and start working at Zenhub.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/EvHaus
• https://www.zenhub.com/careers
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cumul8
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050306015407/http://www.designsbymark.com/

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Alice took us on a long slide: first from office assistance to tech support. Then from tech support to server management at NewRelic. Then from server management to SRE and incident response. Finally from SRE to containers and Kubernetes-Management at Github. We talked about how her curiosity coupled with moments of boredom pushed her to dig ever deeper.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/alicegoldfuss
• https://blog.alicegoldfuss.com
• https://www.twitch.tv/bletchleypunk

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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I asked myself for a long time if I should bring an interview today, or if I should let it be, and decided for the latter.  Today is a historic day for the United States of America, deciding who will be their next president. And we all know, as much as we would like it to be otherwise, it is a historic event for the whole world. The presidency of the United States has an impact on the whole world, and we are part of it. I think we are going to be submerged by media, tv-articles, it's going to be a mess on Twitter, we don't need another DevJourney today. That said, I wanted to leave you with a small story or small reminder...

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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Edidiong first told us about her bumpy start, how computer science was only her "third option". She explained how an internship changed her view on tech and how she embraced it. We spoke about communities and open-source. We talked about her dislike for reading and writing. Edidiong explained how she purposefully started writing more, and how that led to her first and second jobs. We finally touched on mentorship and connections.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/Didicodes
• https://edidiongasikpo.com
• https://hashnode.com
• https://www.interswitchgroup.com
• https://www.shecodeafrica.org
• https://www.oscafrica.org
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/DevCUyo

#EndSARS

Nigeria is currently living through difficult times. Here are two links that very well describe the situation at hand and that Edidiong suggested sharing:

• https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020/10/25/endsars-how-nigerians-use-social-media-against-police-brutality
• https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/25/africa/nigeria-end-sars-protests-analysis-intl/index.html

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
• Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.
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