#227 Katerina Trajchevska founded her remote workplace
Katerina placed the start of her journey in her studies when she found where she belonged. She spoke about her first job and how it set up the rest of her career. It led her toward freelancing and the...
8 Nov 202236min
#226 Jonah Andersson's successful jump from the Philippines to Sweden
Jonah started by telling us about her family and how she juggled her studies and put food on the table for her three siblings. We then discussed how she moved to Sweden and how her micro-manager of a ...
1 Nov 202243min
#225 Max Howell from chemistry to homebrew and tea
Max took us back to his childhood, at 6, when he got his first BBC-Micro computer. We spoke about learning BASIC and C++, using manuals and documentation instead of Stackoverflow, and how he studied c...
25 Okt 202251min
#224 Grant Glidewell from substance abuse counselor to web dev
Grant told us about his childhood and how he ended up doing an internship at 12, programming Flash animations. But what could have been a straight line toward software engineering took a long detour o...
18 Okt 202243min
#223 Adi Polak continuous learner in the big-data space
Adi took us on a journey of following learning opportunities. From a machine learning research project in college to learning about distributed systems and big data. We explored how she approached joi...
11 Okt 202240min
#222 Marcy Sutton photo journalist turned web dev and accessibility expert
Marcy told us about her photojournalism studies and how they led her to web development. We soon bifurcated into accessibility and remained there until the end. We discussed what it means to create ac...
4 Okt 202247min
#221 Sergey Gorbunov wanted to tackle hard problems
Sergey's story started with circumventing the BIOS passwords his Dad put on their family computer. Fast forward a few years, we dug deep into Sergey's P.hD, research, academia, assistant professor po...
27 Sep 202243min
#220 Tanya Janca from dev to PenTester to purple security expert
Tanja's story started in a computer science family in the 70s, where Tanja fell in love with computers. She spoke about programming in high school, coming out of college during the DotCom bubble, and ...
20 Sep 202251min
