This week Matt sits down with Brian Faber. Brian is the CTO & Co-Founder of Mayday. In this episode, we discuss how Brian went from getting his first computer at the age of seven and teaching himself to program, to skipping university and getting his first development contract building Game Boy Advanced. We discussed the process of building a start-up & managing time.

Other things discussed in this episode include:

- Hiring Practices

- Working for Ubisoft

- Does it make sense to go to school for gaming?

and so much more.

If you liked this episode, check out Mayday or connect with Brian directly (Of course, Mayday *is* hiring!) 

  - Brian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-faber-4117203/

  - Mayday website: https://mayday.am

This week Matt sits down with Andrew Knight. You likely know Andy from his blog AutomationPanda.com or from one of his many talks at Tech Conferences spanning across the globe. In this episode Andy discusses how the TI-83 got him hooked on programming, how Automation Panda started as a place for him to save his notes between jobs, and how blogging led to speaking at conferences, consulting, and many more opportunites. Other things discussed in this episode include:

You can follow Andy on:

This week Matt sits down with Landy Simpson, engineer. Landy discusses the first talk she gave for Power to Fly & what she learned from that experience. We also cover why Landy took up writing, including a very successful Elastic Search Engine article that peaked the interest of some important industry folks and led to her Power to Fly conference. 

Other topics discussed in this episode include:

Landy's blog: https://simplyy.medium.com/

Landy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/simp_lyy

This week Matt sits down with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb. Charity discusses the dangers of aging code in pre-production, what it takes to lead an engineering organization, from on-call, to management, to hiring.

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This week Matt sits down with Nora, a junior developer at a digital consultancy, to discuss having success in theprofessional world of programming despite not having a University Degree. Noratalks about the confidence that graduating from a programming bootcamp gave her & how she has been able to take that with her to excel in her career. 

Another highlight from this episode included how continuing to learn about other aspects of programming are important to your growth, even if you are not using them on a daily basis.

This week Matt sits down with Sameer to talk about excelling in your first role and using it as a stepping stone, establishing a personal knowledgebase, and the importance of staying organized. We dive into how Sameer got started building contract versioning software for the Real Estate space and his experience converting a legacy Ruby on Rails and Ember application to NextJS. 

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In this week’s episode Matt sits down with Dan Moore. Dan is currently working at FusionAuth as a Developer Advocate. I spoke to Dan about his origins of creating an automated mailing system for his parents’ Insurance Company, how even your “weak” relationships can still create opportunity down the road & why it is important to test your cofounder. Dan’s new book “Letters to a New Developer” is available right now.

Other things covered in this episode include:

- The Spectrum of Developer Advocacy

- The importance in committing for 6 months when growing a blog

- Maintaining a community & much more

Get in touch with Dan: 

Check out Dan's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Letters-New-Developer-Starting-Development/dp/1484260732/