Software Developers Journey

April is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a conscious business that helps technical teams cultivate sustainable, human-­centered software development practices built on a foundation of emotional intelligence. She has spent the past decade as a software engineer and technical leader at various startups in Silicon Valley. As an advocate for a more socially responsible tech industry, she also mentors technologists around the world and volunteers with organizations to teach coding to people from underrepresented groups. When she is not coding or speaking, she enjoys writing, running ultramarathons, and experimenting with vegan recipes.

Together we started by talking about ultrarunning and how to start a career in IT. We then brused over April's story, from Sony to various Startups in the Silicon Valley. We then talked about hiring practices, looking for a growth mindset, avoiding biases, etc. April then described her company "Compassionate Coding", what it is and why she felt the need to create it. We finally spoke about the pushbacks she endured and April gave the advice to get in touch with your core values.

Here are the links of the show:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/aprilwensel
• Compassionate Coding: https://compassionatecoding.com
• NewCrafts Conference: http://ncrafts.io
• Growth Mindset: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mindset#/Fixed_and_growth
• Black Girls Code: http://www.blackgirlscode.com
• Hackbright Academy: https://hackbrightacademy.com
• League of amazing programmers: http://www.jointheleague.org
• Couch to 5K App: https://www.active.com/mobile/couch-to-5k-app
• Article about the bias embedded in the false dichotomy of “technical” and “non-technical”: https://link.medium.com/gDLA8q8bNU

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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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Jeremy Likness is a Cloud Developer Advocate for Azure at Microsoft. Jeremy has spent two decades building enterprise software with a focus on line of business web applications. He is the author of several highly acclaimed technical books including Designing Silverlight Business Applications and Programming the Windows Runtime by Example. He has given hundreds of technical presentations during his career as a professional developer. In his free time Jeremy likes to run, hike, and maintain a 100% plant-based diet.

Jeremy first explained how he felt in love with computers at the age of 7... and ended up droping out of college and abandoning the idea of a career in software. He told us about the detours he took and how he got back in IT through the back door. We touched on his learning patterns and how he got into public speaking and conferences. We devised on how each step of his career prepared him for his current job as a developer advocate. Finally, we spoke about hiring and mentoring younger developers.

Here are the links of the show:

• @jeremylikness on Twitter: http://twitter.com/@jeremylikness
• Blog: https://blog.jeremylikness.com
• Upcoming talks: https://blog.jeremylikness.com/upcoming-talks-eaf27ff8a3a7

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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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Patrick is the CTO of the mobile bank N26, where he is building the engineering group that will change modern retail banking for people like you and me. Formerly a Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks in London, he is also the author of three books, The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and most recently, Building Evolutionary Architectures. Patrick is a frequent conference speaker, a blogger and is passionate about bringing a balanced focus between people, organisations and technology.

During this interview, we touched on the different roles Patrick's overtook during his career. Pat devised on how his time as a consultant prepared him for his current role as a CTO. We discussed the definition of a Technical Lead and compared it to the CTO Role(s). We finally discussed Pat's personal learning strategies.

Here are the links of the show:

• @patkua https://twitter.com/patkua
• Blog https://www.thekua.com/atwork
• Tech Lead Course - http://thekua.io/techlead-course
• Talking with Tech Leads book - https://thekua.io/twtl
• N26 Bank https://n26.com
• N26 are hiring - https://grnh.se/f64c07431
• ThoughtWorks https://www.thoughtworks.com
• The Retrospective Handbook https://leanpub.com/the-retrospective-handbook
• eXtreme Tuesday Club London https://www.meetup.com/eXtreme-Tuesday-Club-XTC
• Dan North https://dannorth.net
• Alistair Cockburn https://alistair.cockburn.us

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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Charlie Gerard is a software developer at ThoughtWorks in Sydney. She is passionate about creative coding and building interactive prototypes mixing science, art and technology. She also spends time giving back to the community by mentoring new developers, contributing to open-source projects and speaking at events.

We first talked about her early career in Marketing and as a Digital Producer and segwayed into the Bootcamp that started her programming career. We discussed formal education, university degrees, bootcamps and imposter syndrom. We then touched on the many side-projects that she nurtures, from brain sensors to motion control, connected ink and much more. We finally spoke about her learning strategies and how she motivates her for doing so much.

Here are the links of the show:

• @DevDevCharlie: http://www.twitter.com/devdevcharlie
• Homepage: https://charliegerard.github.io
• Github: https://github.com/charliegerard
• Blog: https://medium.com/@devdevcharlie
• Charlie’s weekly newsletter about Creative Technology: http://eepurl.com/dJADpY
• General Assembly Bootcamp: https://generalassemb.ly
• Imposter Handbook https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook
• Brain Sensor, Connected Ink, Facial Expression, Spell Words, Thoughts project, etc https://charliegerard.github.io/#projects
• Leap Motion: https://www.leapmotion.com
• LSTM: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Long_short-term_memory
• MIT Media Lab: https://www.media.mit.edu
• SonicPi https://sonic-pi.net
• AR Kit https://developer.apple.com/arkit
• AR Core https://developers.google.com/ar
• Unity3D https://unity3d.com
• JSHeroes Conference https://jsheroes.io
• YouGottaLoveFrontend Conference http://yglf.com.ua
• DevoxxLondon Conference https://www.devoxx.co.uk

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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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Dr. Simon Harrer is a senior consultant at INNOQ. In his daily business, he fights for simple solutions with domain-driven design, fitting architectures such as microservices or monoliths, and clean code in Java, Ruby or even JavaScript. Most recently, he co-authored the book "Java by Comparison" that helps Java beginners to write cleaner code through before/after comparisons.

We talked about his love for teaching and how he incorporated industry best-practices into the curriculum he build. We then touched on freedom, and how it influenced his career choices. Afterwards, we segwayed into his new love for remote mob programming and why he thinks this is one of the most effective ways to program. Finally, we brushed over the book he co-authored "Java by Comparison".

Here are the links of the show:

• Twitter https://twitter.com/simonharrer
• GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17847059.Simon_Harre
• Book "Java by Comparison" Homepage https://java.by-comparison.com
• Remote Mob Programming https://remotemobprogramming.org
• Mob Programming https://mobprogramming.org
• JabRef, the Open Source Bibliography Manager https://www.jabref.org
• JabRef, GitHub Project https://github.com/JabRef/jabref

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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Ignacio Anaya is a Full Stack Developer at the company BloqInc, a Tech Trainer and a Speaker from Argentina. He's Passionate about code, teaching and field hockey. He mostly works with JavaScript, Vue.js and Blockchain but likes to contribute to many dev communities and Open Source project. Ignacio is an Ambassador for Auth0 and the organizer of the Buenos Aires Vue JS Usergroup.

Together we spoke about how his first steps as a developer, his trainee curiculum and how he came to work with Javascript. We talked about his company going bankrupt and how it helped him realize that he had valuable skills. We finally touched on working remotely and learning to learn.

Note: sorry for the remaining clicking noises that I could not cleanup. Starting with episode 41, I will be changing the recording process to avoid those alltogether.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://twitter.com/ianaya89
• https://vuejs.org
• https://frontend-con.io

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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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Harry Roberts is an award-winning Consultant Performance Engineer from the UK. With a client list ranging from the United Nations to Google, the BBC to the Financial Times, he has helped some of the world’s largest organisations make their websites faster. He also holds positions as a Google Developer Expert, where he shares web performance research and findings, and as Performance Ambassador for SHIFT Commerce, where he aims to make ecommerce faster from the inside out. He writes about all things front-end performance at csswizardry.com, speaks at tech events all across the globe, and regularly shares his insights at @csswizardry.

Together we spoke about Harry's journey into development. From the beginning as a WebDeveloper, to his move toward freelancing. We also touched on the effects his CSS-Specific branding had on his gigs. We finally touched on mentoring and how one can help each other in our industry.

Here are the links of the show:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/csswizardry
• Website: https://csswizardry.com
• James Victore: https://vimeo.com/69452647
• ITCSS: https://csswizardry.com/2018/11/itcss-and-skillshare
• New Adventures https://newadventuresconf.com/2019

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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Ryan Latta has been building software and teams for nearly 10 years now. He currently works as an agile coach and scrum master with a mission of creating teams that change the world. As a developer he maintains a belief that writing code is the least responsible thing he can do. When he isn't spending time with his family, he is mentoring new developers in starting their careers, playing games, and learning to play the fiddle.

Ryan brushed over the dark passages of his career. From Game development (not that dark) to the cancelled projects, (un)ethical dilemmas and arm twisting decisions... wow, really powerful lessons in all this. Thanks Ryan!

Here are the links of the show:

• http://ryanlatta.com
• http://dev.to
• http://twitter.com/recursivefaults

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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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Listen to (almost) all the 2018 guests answer the same question: what is the most important thing you learned in 2018?

In order of appearance:

• Emily Bache http://twitter.com/emilybache
• Darren Hoehna http://twitter.com/activefireball
• Markus Harrer http://twitter.com/feststelltaste
• Jessica Kerr http://twitter.com/jessitron
• Anne Cahalan http://twitter.com/northofnormal
• Mario Rogic http://twitter.com/realmario
• Richard Rodger http://twitter.com/rjrodger
• Steven Schwenke http://twitter.com/stevenschwenke
• Rob Allen http://twitter.com/akrabat

Credits

• Music Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)
• Special Music Jingle Bell Swing by Mark Smeby (CC BY ND 3.0)

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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Darren is a software developer, currently working for Microsoft, and the founder of the "That Programming Guy" company through which he does the two things that he loves most: helping people and tutoring in programming. When he's not working, he either plays video games, or does chores.

Together we talked about the detours Darren took in order to become a developer, like working for U-Haul and not finishing his college degree. Then we talked about the interviews he lived through and how he dealt with imposter syndrom. Finally, we touched on his entrepreneur philosophie and why he created "That programming guy".

Here are the links of the show:

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/dhoehna
• https://twitter.com/activefireball
• https://www.thatprogrammingguy.com
• https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/42

Credits

• Music Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)

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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