Software Developers Journey

Abhimanyu placed the start of his dev journey as a math undergrad who had not touched a computer before. We talked about how he enrolled in a CS curriculum at university and found himself typing with one finger among people with years of experience. We talked about him growing into this role and creating a smart-lightning company even before graduation. We discussed working in the open source communities, moving to the USA, working for Fab as an early employee, and drinking from the firehose. We finally touched on hiring and being hired and how this led him to co-creating two companies in the learning space.

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• https://www.twitter.com/asxna
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhimanyusaxena
• Scaler US program website - https://www.scaler.com/us/
• Social US LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/scaler-usa
• Scaler Pod Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhBy6YSIT0DjPC-a9j-Alz21GHOjzrVe

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Jake placed the start of his journey in middle school, having to learn his way with computers to play video games. From there, we talked about a small hardware review business he started and how following his curiosity set him up on the path of creating companies. We talked about starting and failing. We spoke of Lean Startup, MVPs, and talking to customers. We finally talked about solving your pains and how ButterCMS came to be.

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• https://www.twitter.com/jakelumetta
• [email protected]
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lumetta
• https://careers.buttercms.com
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050709235618/http://www.bonafidereviews.com/index.php

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lailabougria/
• https://github.com/lailabougria/talks

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Jean-Philippe pinpointed the start of his journey at age 11 when his mother placed the family computer in his bedroom. JP talked about his childhood, discovering coding, and the internet, being an excellent student, promising greatness, and dropping out. He spoke of being unable to find a tech job and working as a truck driver. He then explained how he started doing phone support and grew to become the leader of a few hundred employees while following his passion: learning. He explained how "being packaged out" came as a wake-up call. He described the last segment of his life in engineering leadership and how he found purpose in building systems of humans.

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jphilippeleblanc/

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Dustin placed the start of his journey somewhere between the age of 7 and 18... or 16... with a C64 or a TRS-80. Fast forward a few years, he spoke of enrolling in a computer engineering curriculum to play on hardware and software. We then talked about the first company Dustin worked for. We spoke about the multiple roles he took during his 12 years tenure and how he slowly realized that if his money bucket was full, his freedom and happiness buckets were empty. We discussed transitioning to freelancing, interviewing, finding gigs, and at some point, becoming an employer and creating your own company.

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

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Oshri placed the start of his journey at the age of 13 when he got his first computer and started being an online vigilante. Fast forward a few years, he was out of high school, searching for a job as a developer during the dot-com boom. We talked about his first job, the company he created, and crashed. We spoke of returning to being an employee and playing the title rat race until he became a full-time fractional CTO. We discussed what it is and how Oshri lives it daily, and he never had that much fun.

Here are the links from the show:

• https://twitter.com/cohenoshrimtl
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/oshricohen
• https://oshricohen.me

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Kevin started his story in the 80 & the 90s but quickly said, "Coding found me more than I found it." We then discussed his (very early) Bootcamp and how he went from one job to the next, slowly feeling less incompetent. We talked about ADHD, networking, people & organizational problems, and environment variables. We then dug our heels into eXtreme Programming and the Spine model: Needs, Values, Principles, Practices, and Tools, and how it helps us create better teams and organizations. 

Here are the links from the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/KevinTrethewey
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevint
• https://kevintrethewey.com/hypotheses
• https://explore.ai
• https://spinemodel.info
• Talk: "When creating software, what really matters?" @DevConf Johannesburg 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLMtFE6MEE
• Book: XP Explained by Kent Beck https://amzn.to/3OYyZta

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Amy took us on a wild ride, made of embracing crazy adventures by fear of failure. We talked about her time as a hippie in a commune, her time in academia, and during her Ph.D., we spoke about transferring skills from one career to the next. We discussed slowly coming to software engineering and how she approached this next transition. And finally, we talked about her positioning as a highly skilled professional yet junior software engineer. 

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• https://www.twitter.com/BattleAxAmy

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