The Accidental Engineer

Ray Holt’s career spans the Cold War and now, as a teacher in Mississippi, Ray is actively passing on his own education as an accidental engineer.

Leslie Carr and Alyssa Whitwell of Clover Health join us today to discuss techniques for continuing to learn once you’re no longer a junior engineer!

Today Hillel Wayne joined us to discuss TLA+ and software verification methodology:

Noted video game neuroeconomist Ramin Shokrizade came to games from athletics.

Chang She started his career at hedge fund AQR Capital Management before leaving finance to co-found DataPad with his college classmate, Wes McKinney. DataPad was acquired by Cloudera in 2014 and now Chang manages a team within Cloudera.

Today Patrick Wong and Andrew Jarmon, of Glassdoor and Mercer respectively–join us to discuss the origin of their employer’s compensation datasets and some of the analysis that they perform on behalf of their employers and clients.

Kyle Shevlin came to software engineering via ministry.

Bill Karwin’s name precedes himself, as he is among the top 0.01% of StackOverflow users, and the online community perhaps knows him best for his generosity in sharing information about relational databases.

It was only after some hard-learned lessons in the film industry that Daniel Kang made a career change and joined a fellow church-member’s law firm to provide IT services.

After graduating from Columbia, Mark Weiss started his career as a journalist in New Jersey.