Software Developers Journey

Carolyn took us to the start of her career, as a journalist searching for a job in a foreign country. She told us how she found her first job writing tech documentation, and how this gave her the wish to learn to code. We talked about finding your path where you don't even know what to search for, tiptoeing in dev and becoming a technical writer. We talked about public speaking and how Carolyn found a sweet spot that makes use of her unique skills as a dev, a journalist and a storyteller.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/carolstran
• https://github.com/carolstran/cv
• Mozilla Tech Speaker community: https://developer.mozilla.com/communities/mozilla-tech-speakers
• Upcoming "You Got This" conference: https://home.yougotthis.io
• Bootcamp https://www.spiced-academy.com
• ZigZag podcast about Blockchain: https://zigzagpod.com/2018/06/14/episode-2

People mentioned in the episode:

• Stefan Judis: https://twitter.com/stefanjudis
• Dominik Kundel https://twitter.com/DKundel
• Shirley Wu https://twitter.com/sxywu
• Istvan Szmozsanszky https://twitter.com/slsoftworks
• Havi Hoffman https://twitter.com/freshelectrons

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Jen took us to the beginning of her STEM journey, with the goal to walk the footsteps of Ayanna Howard, but life wanted otherwise. Nevertheless, she found her way to coding. We nostalgically talked about dev-jobs in the 90s and early 2000s. We spoke about web development, accessibility and advocacy.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/knitcodemonkey
• https://www.deque.com/axe/axe-for-web
• Talk from Marcy Sutton - Where in the Stack is Carmen Sanfrancisco?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsUsgBYCIc
• Ayanna Howard: https://howard.ece.gatech.edu

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Jeff first told us how he went from coding games for fun, to selling software as a teenager, to solving problems on the deck of an aircraft carrier. We then talked about contracting and running a contracting business, and drifted toward entrepreneurship. Jeff finally told us the birth story of Titanium in 2006 and his new  startup pinpoint.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/jhaynie
• https://github.com/pinpt
• https://github.com/jhaynie
• https://pinpoint.com
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appcelerator_Titanium

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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We first started talking about how I dabbled into the world of computers, mostly through gaming and tinkering. We then talked about my studdies and my wish to go into (buildings) architecture and keen interest into leadership. We discussed the origin of the show and what I learned from it. We discussed my superpower(s) and what use I make of them. We went over the effects of hosting the podcast in everyday life and how I am able to convince.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/timothep
• https://timbourguignon.fr
• https://mentoring.rocks
• https://seecfp.com
• Talk to me 1-1: https://bit.ly/one_on_one_with_tim

The host of this show is Amitai Schleier 

• https://www.twitter.com/schmonz
• https://schmonz.com/

Credits

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Your(regular) host
Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

The gest-host of this episode is Amitai Schleier, a dear friend and fellow coach, who describes himself as an independent software development coach and speaker, an itinerant programmer, a legacy code wrestler, the host of the "Agile in 3 Minutes" podcast, a musician and finally an (award-winning) bad poet.

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Anjana started by clarifying what Computational Linguistics is, and the research she did in this field. We then talked about idiomatic programming and echo-chambers, which led us to talking about communities. Anjana then described the coding retreat she did in 2015 and how it was a forming experience in her life. We finished the interview by talking about Developer Advocacy and Public Speaking.

Anjana suffers from a debilitating case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer/advocate at Observable, she can often be found coding from her home base in San Francisco; that is, when she's not speaking at events around the world to share the joy of programming and promote a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Mozilla TechSpeakers!

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/AnjanaVakil
• https://observablehq.com
• https://www.recurse.com
• https://www.outreachy.org

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Doug's first told us how discovering computers triggered his curiosity. He explained how he created Mods for Half-Life and realized his calling toward software development. He told us about his first years as a Web Developer, and how he accidentally moved to mobile development. Doug explained how he started working for media companies and one thing leading to the next, taking over management roles and what he learned out of it.

Doug Arcuri is a husband, father of 2, and software professional with 15 years of experience in the industry. He started with software engineering in the late 1990s, modifying the game Half-Life. Doug worked in Radiology, Payroll, and web site development. He then specialized in iOS/Android mobile development for media, magazines and streaming clients at HBO and Nickelodeon. He recently embraced engineering management at IBM. In his spare time he enjoys motorcycling, plastic scale modeling, F1 racing, and building LEGO.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/dougarcuri
• https://dev.to/solidi
• https://medium.com/@solidi

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Joe fist took us through the first few forming years of his career. From developing UNIX workstations and producing fantastic-but-useless software, to doing his first group trainings and learning his chops as a manager. We also touched on entrepreneurship and Joe's secret recipe to success!

Joe Drumgoole is Global Director of Developer Relations at MongoDB. He has over 30 years of product development experience. He still writes software (slowly) most days. His programming weapon of choice is Python. In his career he has founded startups, and led development teams that have built back end financial systems, internet banking software and core infrastructure. At MongoDB he runs the global advocacy and developer content programs.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/jdrumgoole
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdrumgoole
• [email protected]
• https://developer.mongodb.com
• https://community.mongodb.com

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Your host
Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Dylan first told us about his childhood in Zimbabwe and his first computers. Then we spoke about his further discoveries in the UK. We continued talking about technology stacks and modularity. Dylan then spoke about public speaking and his job at Skillsmatter. We finally touched on the Rockstar programming language.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/dylanbeattie
• https://dylanbeattie.net
• https://ursatile.com
• https://www.twitter.com/Ursatile
• https://codewithrockstar.com

Forthcoming virtual events:

• https://fwdays.com/en/event/dotnet-fwdays-2020
• https://ndcporto.com
• https://ndcoslo.com
• https://dotnext-piter.ru/en

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Your host
Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Lara first took us through her start as a biologist... or was it statistician? She then took us through her learning to code on her own, and finding a job as a QA Engineer. She then explained how she slowly moved into an Android developer role, without strong-arming her boss... too much ;) We then talked about her discovering Flutter and becoming a Google Developer Expert. We finally talked about representation in our industry, public speaking and remote work!

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/lariki
• https://medium.com/@laramartin
• https://laramartin.dev
• https://sketchnoting.dev

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Your host
Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Michael started by telling us about his Math studies, and how the coding-tool finally took precedence over it. We talked about his role in a (cool) UX/visualization startup and how he really learned to code there. Michael told us how he dipped his toes into public speaking and how it got him his next job into trainings... and was the birth of his current endeavor: 2 podcasts and his own training company.

Michael Kennedy is an entrepreneur, a father of three girls, a husband, a student, and a teacher. Michael is the founder and host of Talk Python To Me, a weekly podcast about Python and related software developer topics. He is a the founder and chief author at Talk Python Training, where many leading Python developer courses are available online.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/mkennedy
• https://blog.michaelckennedy.net
• https://talkpython.fm
• https://training.talkpython.fm
• https://pythonbytes.fm

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Your host
Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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