Damian Gryski is a Principal Software Developer at Fastly who was highly advanced throughout his academic career and always had an interest in math. He works on TinyGo support for Fastly’s computed edge product and has been working with Golang for 10+ years. In this episode he takes us on a journey through his path to becoming an accomplished Software Engineer. 

00:00 Introduction 

09:30 Creating the timeline

14:25 What type of programs were you writing?

19:20 Did you struggle with math? 

23:00 Being advanced in high school

24:40 What were your parents like? 

26:15 Interest in juggling

30:40 Thoughts heading into university

34:00 Was university difficult?

37:44 Graduating university and internships

42:00 Post Graduate Jobs

48:50 What was exciting about writing Perl? 

55:30 Getting into Golang

1:02:50 Moving on from Booking.com

1:09:50 Discussing Wasm

1:20:20 Contact info

Connect with Damian: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgryski

Mentioned in today’s episode:

Fastly: https://www.fastly.com

Booking: https://www.booking.com/

Perl: https://www.perl.org/

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