Software Developers Journey

Nnenna Ndukwe is a seasoned software developer who profoundly understands the essence of community and its value in shaping one's career journey. In a world often dictated by individual prowess, Nnenna's story is a testament to the power of shared wisdom and the transformative capacity of communal learning in the tech industry. With a passion for continuous growth and a heart to impact others, her story reverberates the truth that one's journey can indeed inspire the journeys of many others.
Nnenna placed the start of her journey in a tanning salon, where she spent her breaks and quiet time on Codecademy and FreeCodeCamp. From there, she spoke about her one-way ticket to Boston, how she immersed herself in communities and followed her insatiable curiosity. She talked about her boot camp and how she found a job. She discussed working in the open and how it led to her dev advocacy role.

In this episode, Nnenna discusses her journey from curiosity to proficiency in the world of coding and how being part of tech communities played a crucial role in her growth. Her emphasis on skipping lessons that others have already learned, and the value of listening to the stories of others, offers profound insights into learning and career growth. She also touches upon the joy she derives from mentoring and the sense of fulfillment she gets from seeing newcomers progress in their tech careers.

If you want to learn more about the influential role of communities in career development and get inspiration from Nnenna's incredible journey, tune in to this episode!
Three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

• Nnenna's journey into tech is inspiring, and it serves as a reminder that patience, persistence, and curiosity are vital elements to succeeding in coding and programming.
• Nnenna shares practical insights on the power of community engagement, mentorship, and self-advocacy in tech, which can guide newcomers in navigating their tech careers.
• The conversation offers concrete advice for overcoming common hurdles such as self-doubt, which could resonate with many individuals at different stages of their tech journey.

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Trisha took us from her first years at school, being an outsider, all the way to taking advantage of it as a developer advocate for JetBrains. During this fantastic discussion, we brushed over the people that helped and even pushed her. We spoke about being comfortable with being uncomfortable. We discussed taking a leap of faith, not burning bridges, taking control of your career, working on your brand, important developer skills and building on people.

Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries and non-profits of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, and dabbles with Open Source development. Trisha is a leader of the Sevilla Java User Group, a Java Champion and a true believer in healthy communities. As a Developer Advocate for JetBrains, she gets to share all the interesting things she’s constantly discovering.
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My audio feed was very low, my questions will be a bit hard to hear at some point. But I managed to save most of it and Trisha sounds fantastic!
Here are the links of the show:

• https://twitter.com/trisha_gee
• Personal blog: http://trishagee.com
• Improvements for Java Developers in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 Screencast: https://youtu.be/NXfXc95-an4
• List of Trisha's presentations: http://trishagee.github.io/presentation/public_appearances
• Dave Farley and Jez Humble Continuous Integration
• Kathy Sierra, "Badass: Making users awesome" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25348796-badass

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Doug's first told us how discovering computers triggered his curiosity. He explained how he created Mods for Half-Life and realized his calling toward software development. He told us about his first years as a Web Developer, and how he accidentally moved to mobile development. Doug explained how he started working for media companies and one thing leading to the next, taking over management roles and what he learned out of it.
Doug Arcuri is a husband, father of 2, and software professional with 15 years of experience in the industry. He started with software engineering in the late 1990s, modifying the game Half-Life. Doug worked in Radiology, Payroll, and web site development. He then specialized in iOS/Android mobile development for media, magazines and streaming clients at HBO and Nickelodeon. He recently embraced engineering management at IBM. In his spare time he enjoys motorcycling, plastic scale modeling, F1 racing, and building LEGO.
Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/dougarcuri
• https://dev.to/solidi
• https://medium.com/@solidi

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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Reuven took us on a rollercoaster, from his discovery of programming, his first classes and tryouts, to his life changing discovery on the Web while at MIT. He took us through his first jobs and taught us how he became a consultant. We discussed his experience as a broad T-Shaped consultant, and slowly converged toward his training business. We then focused on learning, teaching and the key skills required to strive in this business. We finally finished brushing over the history of Reuven's new book "Python Workout", how it came to be, and how it is going to influence his business in the future.
Reuven is a full-time Python trainer. He teaches courses at companies in the US, Europe, Israel, India, China and of course, online. Among other activities, Reuven has been running Lerner Consulting since 1995. He is also the CTO of "Rent Like a Champion", an event-based home-rental company based in Chicago. And on the side, Reuven pushes his newsletter called “Better developers” to more than 10.000 readers every week. Last but not least, Reuven is currently doing the last edits of his book “Python Workout” which will be published by Manning early next year.
Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/reuvenmlerner
• http://lerner.co.il
• http://lerner.co.il/newsletter
• https://store.lerner.co.il/weekly-python-exercise-next-cohort
• http://modelingcommons.org

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• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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After brushing over his "false starts" at being a developer, Yehuda slowly took us into a deep, deep dive. We talked about framework design, design philosophy, the importance of communities and being part of a core team.
Yehuda is one of the creators of Ember.js, and a retired member of the Rust, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams. His 9-to-5 home is at the startup he founded, Tilde Inc.. There he works on Skylight, the smart profiler for Rails, and does Ember.js consulting. He's best known for his open source work and his work traveling the world doing open source evangelism and web standards work.
Here are the links of the show:

• https://twitter.com/wycats
• https://www.tilde.io
• https://emberjs.com
• https://rubyonrails.org
• https://jquery.com
• http://script.aculo.us
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merb
• http://sinatrarb.com
• https://emberjs.com/editions/octane

Credits

• Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Your host
Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

Want to be next?

Do you know anyone who should be on the podcast? Do you want to be next? Drop me a line: [email protected] or via Twitter @timothep.
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