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02/12/21 • 39 min
In today’s episode of Develomentor, we have Nick Caldwell. Nick has held almost every technical role one can imagine: software engineer, engineering manager, general manager and VP of engineering. Nick is currently the Chief Product Officer at Looker, a business intelligence company. But prior to this, he worked at major companies from Microsoft to Reddit to NASA. Today we will not only decode Nick's new position, but we'll also discuss strategies on how to shift YOUR career from engineering to product!
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01/28/21 • 57 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Kiara Bickers
Kiara is a writer and SysAdmin at the Bitcoin company Blockstream. Her gateway into tech and Bitcoin started as a slight obsession with Austrian economics. After first hearing about Bitcoin, she spent the next few years learning how to code with the aim of understanding it. It was during this process that she learned: knowledge of how to code doesn’t automatically translate into an understanding of why a system works.
It wasn’t until she started working at Blockstream, with the cypherpunks who work on Bitcoin, that she got closer to real understanding. She documented these realizations in her recently published book, Bitcoin Clarity. The book is a guide to understanding Bitcoin with mental models instead of code, for the non-technical audience that’s been tempted to fall into the “learn to code” trap themselves.
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A note from Grant
Kiara Bickers is building a career at the center of one of today’s hottest trends: cryptocurrencies. She went from working at Stanford in the catering department to working as a self taught SysAdmin at Blockstream to authoring a book on bitcoin clarity.
Whether you are into bitcoin or think cryptocurrency isn’t ready for primetime, there are a lot of really interesting career opportunities and challenges in the field. Be sure to stay tuned as we catch up with Kiara Bickers and learn how she is crafting a career at the center of a potentially revolutionizing new technology.
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01/25/21 • 40 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jason Hughes.
Jason Hughes has spent over 10 years in the data and analytics space in roles ranging from BI developer to business analyst, business intelligence, and management. He’s worked in a variety of industries and for Fortune 200 companies as well as companies with under 200 employees.
Currently, Jason serves as the Director of Data & Analytics at Delta Dental of MN—a role he’s been in for the past year. In his free time, Jason unwinds by playing guitar, running and spending time with his wife and two dogs.
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A note from Grant
From English major and professional musician to business intelligence and now Director of Data Analytics, Jason Hughes path into tech and data science started ten plus years after earning his English degree.
Since finding his path in business intelligence, Jason has steadily gained experience holding down roles like business analyst, senior business analyst, business analyst developer, commercial analytics manager and now in the Director role.
Along his journey, Jason has worked for the likes of Horizon Hobby, Audigy Group, Service Now, C. H. Robinson and now Delta Dental as well as earned an MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Be sure to tune in as we welcome Jason Hughes to Develomentor and find out how this one time working musician built a career in tech.
-Grant Ingersoll
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10/08/20 • 49 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Dinesh Shenoy!
From graduating college with a double major in history and physics to changing oil at Jiffy Lube while he figured out what’s next to 7 years as an attorney for Aronson and Associates, Dinesh Shenoy has taken, in his own words “an unusual career path” to becoming a data scientist in 2016.
Along that path, in addition to that double major in undergrad, Dinesh picked up a law degree from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota before deciding to see what data science is all about. As a data scientist, he’s held down roles for Veritas and now CH Robinson.
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Quotes
“By the time I finished my education I had my feet in both camps. I thoroughly enjoyed my physics education, I liked the value of it. But history opened up my mind to a broader perspective rather than thinking of just some technical path in life.”
“Outside of the team, people don’t need to see the math they want you to boil it down for them and help them make a solid business decision one way or another. And boil it down in a quick way.”
“I first started hearing the term ‘data scientist’ when I started thinking about ‘ if I’m not seeking an academic career path, what is there for someone like me in the job market?’”
—Dinesh Shenoy
Key Milestones
- Dinesh took a year off after graduating from college, worked at Jiffy Lube and then decided to go to law school because it was “respectable”. What was going through his mind at that time?
- Dinesh spent 7 years as an immigration attorney. What inspired that area of law?
- After leaving law, Dinesh went back to school to become an astro-physicist. Why choose something so difficult?
- Dinesh find himself in tech after studying to become an astro-physicist?
- Dinesh’s experience as a lawyer and a physics PhD are definitely unique. How have they played into building a successful data science career?
- Tech fuels Dinesh’s intellectual curiosity. How does the ever changing field
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10/05/20 • 44 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Mikolaj Pawlikowski!
Mikolaj Pawlikowski has been a chaos engineer for about four years. He began with a large distributed Kubernetes-based microservices platform at Bloomberg. Mikolaj is the creator of the Kubernetes Chaos Engineering tool PowerfulSeal, and the networking visibility tool Goldgpinger. He is an active member of the Chaos Engineering community and speaks at numerous conferences.
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Quotes
“I spent half of my time at the company that employed me and payed me roughly half of the money that I’d get if I was working there full time. During the other half of the time I had to cram in all the classes that you would normally have.”
“If you have your laptop and it runs for 10 years, you assume it is basically going to run forever. But if you have 1000 laptops, you’re going to start to seem them going down.”
“You can’t ever properly test things in any other environment than production. Because the data is going to be slightly different and the patterns of users will be slightly different.”
“We want to minimize the blast radius. The number of things that can be affected by what we do. In the practice of chaos engineering, it’s not completely crazy to introduce some of that failure to production systems.”
—Mikolaj Pawlikowski
Additional Resources
Sign up for Mikolaj’s newsletter for the latest on chaos engineering – https://chaosengineering.news/
Mikolaj’s Book – Chaos Engineering: Crash Test Your Applications – https://www.manning.com/books/chaos-engineering
Past Develomentor Episodes to check out:
Ep. 15 Kelsey Hightower – Tech Support to Dev Advocate to Keynote Speaker
Charity Majors – Systems Engineer & Cofounder of Honeycomb.io #66
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09/24/20 • 41 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Taylor Poindexter.
Taylor Poindexter is the co-founder of Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to provide a safe space for Black Engineers to collaborate and grow their skills. In addition to this, she is a Senior Back End Engineer for a startup called tech co. A company that is working to make a more participatory democracy. Some awards she’s received include: 2019 Power Woman of DC Tech, DC Fem Tech’s 2018 Power Woman in Code, DC’s 2017 Top Technologist, and 2017 Power Woman of DC Tech. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, working out, whiskey tasting, and spending time with her two amazing nephews.
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A note from Grant
Taylor Poindexter is a proud University of Virginia alumni, earning her degree in computer science before launching her career in tech where she’s held down roles like automation engineer, test engineer, back end engineer and now senior software engineer.
Never one to slow down, Taylor also co-founded the Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to provide a safe space for Black Engineers to collaborate and grow their skills in the Washington DC area. She has collected several awards including being selected as one of DC’s Top Power Women as well as DC’s Top Technologist in 2017.
-Grant Ingersoll
Quotes
“The amount of imposter syndrome I’ve felt until the last 6 months has been at times overwhelming and there were genuine times when I thought that I couldn’t make it in tech.”
“On the back end I’m handling all the data that is passed to the front end for you to be able to see and manipulate. I also write the algorithms to potentially be able to save that data to the database and then serve to the user when they come back.”
“I have several mentors I’ve picked up along the way but they’ve all happened very naturally. And I think those are the best types of mentor relationships because they genuinely care about the advancement of my career.”
“While I may have my own tickets to complete, I have to also make sure to be thinking of the broader vision and the implication of the tickets we’re working on now so we’re set up for success.”
—Taylor Poindexter
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08/10/20 • 51 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Ken Youens-Clark.
Biography
Ken Youens-Clark is a senior-level programmer with 24 years of experience developing software in industry and research environments (scientific programmer). He is the author of Tiny Python Projects published by Manning Publications.
Ken has deep knowledge of the entire software life-cycle experience, from design, execution, testing, release, and iteration. Ken is a creative thinker and innovator, constantly looking for ways to improve upon systems and interfaces. Ken enjoys mentoring younger developers through code reviews, book reviews, and teaching.
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Quotes
“I didn’t know I would be a programmer. And I didn’t understand what that would mean as a career, but playing with computers seemed interesting to me.”
“I’ve always dealt with a lot of imposter syndrome at every single level. You go into a place with pretty cool people who have CS degrees, some of whom were from MIT. These people were clearly better prepared for what we were doing, but I think I brought a different way of problem solving.”
“I didn’t really understand maybe how languages were put together, but I could still use them very effectively.”
“I’m not qualified on my own to go off and do research. But I can create the software that other people can use for that.”
“You need to learn how to write 1 or 2 lines of code and then run your program. You don’t write 50 lines of code and get your program to work.”
“Your own personal happiness should come first. That means at home too with your relationships and your health and your mental well being. All of these things need to be in line for you to grow in any sort of way whether it is professionally or personally.”
—Ken Youens-Clark
Additional Resources
The first five people who email the show at [email protected] will receive a code good for one free ebook copy of “Tiny Python Projects”.
For those who don’t want to send an email, you can get a 40% discount ON ALL Manning books, including “Tiny Python Projects” by using the discount code poddevmen20.
Click here to buy “Tiny Python Projects” by Manning Publications
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – Advancing the frontiers of biology through education and researchKen’s YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/kyclark
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08/06/20 • 40 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Naomi Ceder.
Biography
Naomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago. She switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python.
An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi currently serves as chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general.
By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.
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We are doing a Manning Publications give away!!
The first five people who email the show at [email protected] will receive a code good for one free ebook. You can also get a 40% discount ON ALL Manning books, including The Quick Python Book by using the discount code poddevmen20.
Quotes
“When there are events going on I find it more rewarding to be a part of the event than to be a spectator”
“If you’re sincerely out there trying to help other people, I think that is the best way you can find contacts and build a network.”
“Over the years our more important purpose has been growing and fostering a global python community.”
(Trans*code) “There were lots of events going on in tech like hackathons and hack days. But there was never anything focused around trans folk.”
—Naomi Ceder
Additional Resources
Find out more about trans*code – https://www.trans.tech/
Check out Naomi’s book The Quick Python Book from Manning Publications
Follow Trans*Code on Twitter – @trans_code
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04/09/20 • 46 min
Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Jennifer Creighton.
Jenn Creighton is a frontend architect and conference speaker. She lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online @gurlcode.
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Episode Summary
“Doing a major in English is very technically heavy, and so I think a lot of that transfers into engineering. You pay attention to composition a lot. You are working in specific languages, and so you’re getting used to what they look like, how they’re composed and what are the best practices with them.”
—Jennifer Creighton
In this episode we’ll cover:
- Why Jenn chose not to get a formal degree in software engineering
- How is it that so many English majors become front end engineers?
- The differences between junior engineers, senior engineers, and software architects?
Key Milestones
[1:52] – Jennifer got a degree in English. She fell into the role of a content manager for several companies including The National Academy of Sciences. To manage websites, Jenn had to relearn HTML and CSS. This led her to become more and more technical.
[3:45] – Jenn built a website when she was 14 years old and learned HTML and CSS.
[6:20] – How did Jenn accidentally use Javascript when she was 14 and didn’t know it?
[8:20] – Jenn describes lucking into her first technical role at Ralph Lauren. For a while, she was convinced she needed a formal degree in computer science but then chose the self-taught route.
[13:40]- As she decided to leave Ralph Lauren, Jenn spent her nights and weekends preparing for legitimate technical interview. She had a few subpar interviews that served as early learning experiences.
[16:05] – Jenn recalls finding her first mentor at Lover.ly, a startup she worked at.
[20:02] – The differences between junior engineers, senior engineers, and software architects. How did Jenn’s expertise with React get her promoted quickly at ClassPass?
[24:20] – Why do so many English majors get into front end software engineering?
[28:20] – Jenn’s first speaking engagement was at the conference, Women Who Code 2018. But it was attending Write, Speak, Code that really put her in that position. In 2018, Jenn spoke at 10 conferences!
[31:10] – How has speaking at conferences taken Jenn’s confidence and career to a whole new level? Why does Jenn monitor her pulse?
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02/22/21 • 29 min
Today's guest is Dr. Chris Bouton. Dr Bouton is the CEO of Vyasa Analytics, applying novel deep learning (ie A.I.) approaches for life sciences and healthcare clients.
"Deep learning algorithms are basically the reason that everyone is talking about AI right now."
--Dr. Bouton
As a kid, Chris Bouton loved sharks. Sharks turned into biology and biology turned into molecular biology, which evolved into computational biology. Chris followed his curiosity and received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University.
In this episode we’ll also cover:
- Why did Chris bootstrap instead of raising money when starting Entagen
- Why AI is just a fancy word for deep learning
- Important personality traits for any entrepreneur
- How Chris's Ph.D. in molecular neurobiology makes it extra satisfying to build AI algorithms
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How many episodes does Develomentor have?
Develomentor currently has 140 episodes available.
What topics does Develomentor cover?
The podcast is about Leadership, Cto, Podcasts, Technology, Business, Machine Learning and Careers.
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The episode title 'Eric Bowman - Video Game Developer of THE SIMS (edited)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Develomentor?
The average episode length on Develomentor is 44 minutes.
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Episodes of Develomentor are typically released every 3 days, 16 hours.
When was the first episode of Develomentor?
The first episode of Develomentor was released on Sep 10, 2019.
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