#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix

#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix

Announcements: Watch the video recording of this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rg8SHeq1Ns Rich Smith is a Senior UI engineer at Netflix but did you know this was his 17th job? Today, he talks about how he started hustling as early as 4th grader and eventually discovered his interest in coding! On the episode he covers a lot of topics as what it was like growing up with role models who were athletes, which a lot of us could relate with. And how not until he dropped out of college that Rich stumbled upon coding and later realized that this could be a viable career path! Rich’s journey to become a Senior Engineer at Netflix was certainly not an easy feat, but he lays out the roadmap on this episode that anyone can follow to attain the same results. Hint: it doesn’t involve a computer science degree :)

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#61: Gabe Moncayo - Founder of Always Hired who Helps People Get Into Sales

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#60: Matthew Tran - Youtube Personality & Founder of Engineered Truth Youtube Channel

#60: Matthew Tran - Youtube Personality & Founder of Engineered Truth Youtube Channel

Matt Tran is the Founder of Engineered Truth, a YouTube channel with over 240,000 subscribers. He initially followed the traditional path, studying Psychology and Mechanical Engineering in college. He...

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#59: Dr. Carol Langlois - How Self Esteem & Empowerment are Changing the Ratio through Hackbright

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Dr. Carol Langlois is a lifelong educator who used to run the business program at USF. She was the Dean at Mills College and founder of Higher Education Specialists. She did a dissertation in female...

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#58: Tiger Shen - An 18-Year-Old Software Engineer Who Worked at Square and Braintree

#58: Tiger Shen - An 18-Year-Old Software Engineer Who Worked at Square and Braintree

#58: Tiger Shen - An 18-Year-Old Software Engineer Who Worked at Square and Braintree by Breaking Into Startups

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#57: Kelvin Lightner - Tax Consultant from Deloitte Become A Software Engineer at Intuit

#57: Kelvin Lightner - Tax Consultant from Deloitte Become A Software Engineer at Intuit

Kelvin Lightner is a software engineer apprentice at Intuit and a graduate of Dev Bootcamp. Prior to tech, Kelvin has a double major in Legal Studies and Economics from UC Berkeley and he worked as a ...

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#56: Mike Slagh - How a US Navy Veteran Started a Company to Help Veterans Break Into Tech

#56: Mike Slagh - How a US Navy Veteran Started a Company to Help Veterans Break Into Tech

Mike Slagh is the Founder of Shift.org, a hiring pipeline for military veterans. Back in the military, Mike was a bomb technician and since finishing his service a little over a year ago, he started S...

29 Jun 201747min

#55: Pavan Ravipati - Deep Dive on Software Engineer vs. Sales Engineer

#55: Pavan Ravipati - Deep Dive on Software Engineer vs. Sales Engineer

An East Bay-local, Pavan Ravipati grew up in a family of tech people. He initially took Film and Media in college, landed some corporate sales roles, and worked his way up but he ultimately found his ...

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#54: Erica Prenga - How a Graphic Design Major became an Experience Engineer at Adobe

#54: Erica Prenga - How a Graphic Design Major became an Experience Engineer at Adobe

Erica Prenga is currently an Experience Developer at Adobe. Aware that she had a different learning style, she decided to quit college after her fourth year of studying graphic design until she ultima...

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