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What does it look like going from a completely non-technical field to software engineering? In this video, I share my reflections, thoughts, and strategies on what I did and how you can too.

Why should you learn cloud in 2023? 👨‍💻💭  

In this episode of the Tech Stack Playbook, I'm diving into how I built my career in tech and explain how the AWS Community Builders program allowed me to really dive deep into the tech ecosystem. Today's episode focuses on AWS, the community, the core benefits of the program, and how it has helped me level up as a software engineer and developer a few years ago. For anyone who is looking to get a job, searching for a new role, looking to upskill and level up, switching careers, or pivoting career directions, this episode will be a deep dive into what I did to get into tech and how the steps I took might be able to help you on your journey as well.  

📝 Applications for the AWS Community Builders Program close on Jan 23, 2023, so please reach out if you have any questions about the program and be sure to apply by the deadline here: https://amazonmr.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJwBQXrT2LhBawS 

Time stamps: 

00:00:00 Why should you learn cloud in 2023? 

00:01:09 3 Ways to increase your chances of getting hired 

00:03:19 How social media led me to the AWS Community Builders Program 

00:05:23 Why learning cloud will future-proof your skills/career 

00:09:53 The 3 core benefits of the AWS Community Builders Program 

00:19:07 How you can future-proof yourself and your skills 

00:21:50 What to learn in 2023  

Are you thinking of applying? 💭  

Let me know in the comments below! ⬇️   

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👉 My AWS re:Invent 2022 Talk: How to Become a Full-Stack Developer: https://youtu.be/hkd4g9oYybM 

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👉  Pitching my Startup to a Billionaire: Lessons Learned from Tim Draper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibEMUNhUDAA&t=1139s 

👉  How Does Authentication Work in a React App with AWS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPB-3gnI6I&t=89s 

👉  The 9 AWS Serverless Databases ALL App Developers & Software Engineers Should Know About 👨‍💻💭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bukN5cVv14&t=38s 

👉  String Theory, Consciousness, and the Gate of Choice with Pejman (PJ) Ghadimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQObCgyJ4rk&t=2716s

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Let’s digitize the world 👨‍💻🚀 

In this episode of the Tech Stack Playbook, I'll be sharing more about AWS re:Invent - the year's largest global tech conference that brings together leaders, builders, innovators, and creators from cloud, DevOps, serverless, app development, and software engineering from all around the world.

It's Day 3 of AWS re:Invent and there are a ton of announcements! AWS CEO Adam Selipsky delivered the opening keynote and announced a number of exciting updates and announcements, including Amazon Private 5G (imagine building your own 5G network - how cool is that?!)...Amazon SageMaker Canvas for low-code machine learning in the cloud...and a great analysis of what a modern data strategy looks like.

Additionally, I had the opportunity to attend Amazon Leader David Yanacek's workshop on how he builds operational excellence for his teams in an agile way for developers and DevOps engineers at Amazon. The insights he shared were so insightful and really helped to frame up for me how teams can better work together, build together, and collaborate together.  

Finally, I go through a theme park app I built at one of the workshops 😊

In this blog post and the blog posts to come this week, my hope is to vlog through the entire week and share all that I'm learning and building with you all so whether you are attending virtually or in person, this AWS re:Invent series on the Tech Stack Playbook will help you gain skills, level up in tech, and boost your software engineering abilities from the sessions I'm attending throughout the conference.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn in this episode: 

👉 What AWS re:Invent is all about 

👉 Key announcements from re:Invent 

👉 What I'll be learning about and building this week

It's going to be a major week for cloud and tech in general, so I am so excited to bring you along for the ride.

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👉  The 9 AWS Serverless Databases ALL App Developers & Software Engineers Should Know About 👨‍💻💭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bukN5cVv14&t=38s

👉  String Theory, Consciousness, and the Gate of Choice with Pejman (PJ) Ghadimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQObCgyJ4rk&t=2716s

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Just wrapped up Day 2 of Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent and from the Midnight Madness concert, to building an AI-Powered Image Processor during Talia Nassi's workshop, to catching up with the amazing Adrienne Tacke from MongoDB....there is a TON going on Vegas!

In this episode of the Tech Stack Playbook, I'll be sharing more about AWS re:Invent - the year's largest global tech conference that brings together leaders, builders, innovators, and creators from cloud, DevOps, serverless, app development, and software engineering from all around the world.

Also, I built an AI-Powered image processing application that can take images and analyze certain features about the uploaded images…so that was pretty cool 😱

In this blog post and the blog posts to come this week, my hope is to vlog through the entire week and share all that I'm learning and building with you all so whether you are attending virtually or in person, this AWS re:Invent series on the Tech Stack Playbook will help you gain skills, level up in tech, and boost your software engineering abilities from the sessions I'm attending throughout the conference.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn in this episode:

It's going to be a major week for cloud and tech in general, so I am so excited to bring you along for the ride.

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Let me know in the comments below! ⬇️

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👉  How Does Authentication Work in a React App with AWS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPB-3gnI6I&t=89s

👉  The 9 AWS Serverless Databases ALL App Developers & Software Engineers Should Know About 👨‍💻💭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bukN5cVv14&t=38s

👉  String Theory, Consciousness, and the Gate of Choice with Pejman (PJ) Ghadimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQObCgyJ4rk&t=2716s

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I have an exciting announcement friends!! I just touched down in Las Vegas for day 1 of AWS' re:Invent 2021 conference 🌄 and I cannot wait to share this week's exciting updates, announcements, learnings, and opportunities to level up in cloud computing, serverless, and DevOps with you all.   

AWS re:Invent is the year's largest global tech conference and brings together leaders, builders, innovators, and creators from cloud, DevOps, serverless, app development, and software engineering. I was so fortunate to win an All Builders Grant to attend this year's event, so thank you SO much AWS for this incredible opportunity.  

My hope is to vlog through the entire week and share all that I'm learning and building with you all so whether you are attending virtually or in person, this AWS re:Invent series on the Tech Stack Playbook will help you gain skills, level up in tech, and boost your software engineering abilities from the sessions I'm attending throughout the conference.  It's going to be a major week for cloud and tech in general, so I am so excited to bring you along for the ride.  

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Let me know in the comments below! ⬇️  

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👉  How Does Authentication Work in a React App with AWS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPB-3gnI6I&t=89s 

👉  The 9 AWS Serverless Databases ALL App Developers & Software Engineers Should Know About 👨‍💻💭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bukN5cVv14&t=38s 

👉  String Theory, Consciousness, and the Gate of Choice with Pejman (PJ) Ghadimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQObCgyJ4rk&t=2716s  

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Wondering what you can do to level up as a software engineer, developer or programmer this year? 👨‍💻💭  

In this episode of the Tech Stack Playbook, I'm diving into the program that has single-handedly helped me the most in my tech career thus far: the AWS Community Builders Program. Today's episode focuses on AWS, the community, the core benefits of the program, and how it has helped me level up as a software engineer and developer this year.  

📝 Read more in my blog post here: https://dev.to/aws-builders/how-to-level-up-as-a-software-engineer-aws-community-builders-program-2c6o

Time stamps: 

00:00 How the AWS Community Builders Program has helped me level up 

00:43 Benefit #1: Being a Part of a Vibrant Community 

03:35 Benefit #2: Being Surrounded by Constant Education and Learning 

05:06 Benefit #3: An Immense Amount of Resources and Tools 

06:23 Benefit #4: Get Connected to Conferences, Events, and Workshops 

07:00 Why constant learning is key & how community/mentors can help 

09:35 Reflecting on the past year of growth and development in software engineering  

Are you thinking of applying this year? 💭  Let me know on social media or in the comments! ⬇️

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👉  Pitching my Startup to a Billionaire: Lessons Learned from Tim Draper 

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👉  The Value of Community & the AWS Community Builders Program with Linda Vivah 

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👉  The 9 AWS Serverless Databases ALL App Developers & Software Engineers Should Know About

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👉  String Theory, Consciousness, and the Gate of Choice with Pejman (PJ) Ghadimi 

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Wondering what Low-Code / No-Code is and want to learn more? 👨‍💻💭  

In this episode of the Tech Stack Playbook, I sit down with Wilián Iralzabal (https://instagram.com/wilian_iralzabal), founder of Zabal Media, the creator of One Minute Designer, and a former Product Designer at Google.We had an awesome conversation this afternoon about all things entrepreneurship, design, tech trends, and low-code / no-code.  

Here's what we cover:  

1.) Going One Minute Designer to Zabal Media, and what fueled Wilian’s passion for building. 

2.) As one of the first no-code, strategy, design, and development agencies, what types of work does a designer lead? 

3.) Why the low-code market is so hot right now and what is driving it. 

4.) Will low-code/no-code eventually replace coders/developers, or is there a space for both? 

5.) What made you go all-in on this area of technology? 

6.) What a day in the life looks like for a low-code / no-code designer. 

7.) With the right mindset, you can ‘art detect’ and then ‘architect’ your life. 

8.) We all know about the importance of having a personal brand, so how building a personal brand can be important and helpful over the years.  

Have you heard of low-code / no-code? Or are you thinking of building with it one day? 💭  

Let me know in the comments below! ⬇️

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Here's all you need to know about the 9 different AWS Databases and their use cases that EVERY app developer and software engineer should know about 👨‍💻💭

Last week on Friday, I was invited by WhizLabs to give a webinar on "AWS Databases Demystified With Their Use Cases" in the launch of their #100DaysOfCloud. In episode 6 of the Tech Stack Playbook podcast, I'm covering an in-depth overview of the 9 AWS serverless databases developers and software engineers should know about, architecture diagrams of how they work, how they can be used in production, and 2 live demos of DynamoDB and RDS.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn in this episode:

[00:00] Webinar Primer

[06:18] Overview of a Database

[07:37] Brief history of serverless Databases

[09:36] Walkthrough of 9 AWS Databases and their use cases + how to get started with your own apps

[30:48] How to set up a DynamoDB table and query your data

[36:02] How to spin up an RDS instance in a VPC and manage/update this database with MySQL Workbench

[1:03:12] Q&A + Quiz Time!

[1:18:19] Conclusion

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Have you ever wondered about quantum mechanics, string theory, the multiverse, and how the world’s greatest leaders ascended to the highest versions of themselves? Welcome back to the Tech Stack Playbook, your guide to apps, software, and tech (but in a fun way I promise)...  

This week, I got to sit down with entrepreneurial legend, Pejman (PJ) Ghadimi (https://instagram.com/icreatemillionaires), a powerhouse self-made immigrant multi-millionaire entrepreneur, and the best-selling author of Third Circle Theory, Radius, and Gate of Choice. He brings a wealth of knowledge from his 20+ years building businesses that reshape what and how people learn.  

If you watched Netflix’s Fastest Cars, you probably saw PJ on Season 2 Episode 1 featured for his extensive luxury car collection. Additionally, he’s the founder and teacher at Exotic Car Hacks (ExoticCarHacks.com), Watch Trading Academy (WatchTradingAcademy.com), and Secret Entourage (https://www.instagram.com/secretentourage).  

I've benefited immensely from PJ's teachings and mentorship over the past two years, especially since joining Secret Entourage 2 years ago. Being a startup co-founder now, I'm extremely grateful I read Gate of Choice (GOC) when I did because it was a fully transformational and awakening book into what opportunity, growth, scaling, and success really are about. PJ refers to this concept of the "higher self", beyond the point of self actualization, where you really can create your own reality for others to be in. It gets quite meta when you dissect a lot of these topics, but the the subtitle of the book "a dictionary for the higher human" is the subtitle for a reason. It's highly practical and rich with blueprints, strategies, and guides to help anyone ascend to the highest version of themselves.   

If you're currently building something big or want to in the future, GOC is a must read! To get a copy, go here ➡️ https://www.gateofchoice.com   

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn in this episode: 

🔹 Multiverse, string theory, and tapping into the building of our own destinies/realities. 

🔹 The inspiration for the last book in PJ’s trilogy, Gate of Choice. 

🔹 How consciousness and ascending to one’s “higher self” creates new realities and open doors one might think impossible to attain. 

🔹 Top strategies for entrepreneurs, builders, and innovators looking to do something big. 

🔹 Analyzing whether people like Elon Musk are anomalies or are consciously creating their own realities before our eyes.  

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Welcome back to the Tech Stack Playbook — your guide to apps, software, and tech (but in a fun way I promise!)

This week, I had an amazing conversation on Instagram LIVE with HackerEarth (https://www.instagram.com/hackerearth​​), one of the leading online virtual hackathon platforms with a 5+ million developer community and an online learning platform assessing 80+ developer skills. Hackathons have played such an important role in my career, helping me learn new skills at a fast rate, see how to build technology up close, and they continue to be a great way to network, level up skills, and make incredible connections. When HackerEarth reached out to me to do an IG LIVE to answer the question "are hackathons just for the pros?" I of course had to take them up on their offer.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn in this episode:

1.) What the real purpose of Hackathons is to me.

2.) Why Hackathons aren't about winning (but something bigger).

3.) What are the 3 language you need for a product-focused Hackathon?

4.) What are the 3 language you need for a proof-of-concept Hackathon?

5.) The greatest lessons I've learned from Hackathons so far (including some funny stories)

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