#180 April Speight in her own lane from design to advocacy
April took us on a rollercoaster. We talked about how she learned Python in the open, made videos about her learning, and landed a children's book deal. April told us about transitioning to the AR/VR ...
7 Dec 202152min
#179 Adrian Colyer went from developer to living under constant jet lag and back
Adrian took us back to his first line of code on a ZX-Spectrum. We then brushed over his computer science studies and landed at IBM. We talked about how he discovered Java and AspectJ. We discussed ho...
30 Nov 202145min
#178 Aviv Ben-Yosef is a tech leader who went through a lifelong experience pressure cooker
Aviv took us back to his childhood, discovering PCs and learning how to code on his own. We then talked about his time in the army, applying for and then working in Unit-8200. We talked about purpose ...
23 Nov 202144min
#177 Zachary Powell is a freelancer who found out that working in an office is not a bad thing
Zac took us from his discovery of development in high school, through his CS degree, to his work as a freelancer. We discussed freedom, the skills required to lead your own business, missing your esti...
16 Nov 202141min
#176 Sebastien Stormacq was a developer advocate before the term even existed
Sebastien took us back to his discovery of the C64 in the 80s and his passion for DJing on public radio. We then talked about his studies in Computer Sciences and how he landed in the software industr...
9 Nov 202150min
#175 Christina Holland tried to avoid software development by going into biotech and animation
Christina took us back to her early childhood when her parents tried to encourage embrace computer science. She told us about her deceptions failing to enter a med-school and had to introspect. She ex...
2 Nov 202145min
#174 Rotem Zifroni is the future founder of a social startup
Rotem took us on a wild ride, which started in a leadership position in Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Force. After five years, she loved her impact, but she felt that software engineering was where ...
26 Okt 202138min
#173 Susan Potter from distributed systems to functional verification
Susan took us from her maths studies to discovering C++ and deciding on following a career in computer science. We talked about her discovery of verification and functional programming and how it beca...
19 Okt 202143min
