Developer's Journey

Jeremy Likness is a Cloud Developer Advocate for Azure at Microsoft. Jeremy has spent two decades building enterprise software with a focus on line of business web applications. He is the author of several highly acclaimed technical books including Designing Silverlight Business Applications and Programming the Windows Runtime by Example. He has given hundreds of technical presentations during his career as a professional developer. In his free time Jeremy likes to run, hike, and maintain a 100% plant-based diet.Jeremy first explained how he felt in love with computers at the age of 7... and ended up droping out of college and abandoning the idea of a career in software. He told us about the detours he took and how he got back in IT through the back door. We touched on his learning patterns and how he got into public speaking and conferences. We devised on how each step of his career prepared him for his current job as a developer advocate. Finally, we spoke about hiring and mentoring younger developers.Here

Patrick is the CTO of the mobile bank N26, where he is building the engineering group that will change modern retail banking for people like you and me. Formerly a Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks in London, he is also the author of three books, The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads and most recently, Building Evolutionary Architectures. Patrick is a frequent conference speaker, a blogger and is passionate about bringing a balanced focus between people, organisations and technology.During this interview, we touched on the different roles Patrick's overtook during his career. Pat devised on how his time as a consultant prepared him for his current role as a CTO. We discussed the definition of a Technical Lead and compared it to the CTO Role(s). We finally discussed Pat's personal learning strategies.Here are the links of the show:@patkua https://twitter.com/patkuaBlog https://www.thekua.com/atworkTech Lead Course - http://thekua.io/techlead-courseTalking with Tech Leads bo

Charlie Gerard is a software developer at ThoughtWorks in Sydney. She is passionate about creative coding and building interactive prototypes mixing science, art and technology. She also spends time giving back to the community by mentoring new developers, contributing to open-source projects and speaking at events.We first talked about her early career in Marketing and as a Digital Producer and segwayed into the Bootcamp that started her programming career. We discussed formal education, university degrees, bootcamps and imposter syndrom. We then touched on the many side-projects that she nurtures, from brain sensors to motion control, connected ink and much more. We finally spoke about her learning strategies and how she motivates her for doing so much.Here are the links of the show:@DevDevCharlie: http://www.twitter.com/devdevcharlieHomepage: https://charliegerard.github.ioGithub: https://github.com/charliegerardBlog: https://medium.com/@devdevcharlieCharlie’s weekly newsletter about Creative Technology: h

Dr. Simon Harrer is a senior consultant at INNOQ. In his daily business, he fights for simple solutions with domain-driven design, fitting architectures such as microservices or monoliths, and clean code in Java, Ruby or even JavaScript. Most recently, he co-authored the book "Java by Comparison" that helps Java beginners to write cleaner code through before/after comparisons.We talked about his love for teaching and how he incorporated industry best-practices into the curriculum he build. We then touched on freedom, and how it influenced his career choices. Afterwards, we segwayed into his new love for remote mob programming and why he thinks this is one of the most effective ways to program. Finally, we brushed over the book he co-authored "Java by Comparison".Here are the links of the show:Twitter https://twitter.com/simonharrerGoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17847059.Simon_HarreBook "Java by Comparison" Homepage https://java.by-comparison.comRemote Mob Program

Ignacio Anaya is a Full Stack Developer at the company BloqInc, a Tech Trainer and a Speaker from Argentina. He's Passionate about code, teaching and field hockey. He mostly works with JavaScript, Vue.js and Blockchain but likes to contribute to many dev communities and Open Source project. Ignacio is an Ambassador for Auth0 and the organizer of the Buenos Aires Vue JS Usergroup.Together we spoke about how his first steps as a developer, his trainee curiculum and how he came to work with Javascript. We talked about his company going bankrupt and how it helped him realize that he had valuable skills. We finally touched on working remotely and learning to learn.Note: sorry for the remaining clicking noises that I could not cleanup. Starting with episode 41, I will be changing the recording process to avoid those alltogether.Here are the links of the show:https://twitter.com/ianaya89https://vuejs.orghttps://frontend-con.ioCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCom

Harry Roberts is an award-winning Consultant Performance Engineer from the UK. With a client list ranging from the United Nations to Google, the BBC to the Financial Times, he has helped some of the world’s largest organisations make their websites faster. He also holds positions as a Google Developer Expert, where he shares web performance research and findings, and as Performance Ambassador for SHIFT Commerce, where he aims to make ecommerce faster from the inside out. He writes about all things front-end performance at csswizardry.com, speaks at tech events all across the globe, and regularly shares his insights at @csswizardry.Together we spoke about Harry's journey into development. From the beginning as a WebDeveloper, to his move toward freelancing. We also touched on the effects his CSS-Specific branding had on his gigs. We finally touched on mentoring and how one can help each other in our industry.Here are the links of the show:Twitter: https://twitter.com/csswizardryWebsite: https://csswizardr

Ryan Latta has been building software and teams for nearly 10 years now. He currently works as an agile coach and scrum master with a mission of creating teams that change the world. As a developer he maintains a belief that writing code is the least responsible thing he can do. When he isn't spending time with his family, he is mentoring new developers in starting their careers, playing games, and learning to play the fiddle.Ryan brushed over the dark passages of his career. From Game development (not that dark) to the cancelled projects, (un)ethical dilemmas and arm twisting decisions... wow, really powerful lessons in all this. Thanks Ryan!Here are the links of the show:http://ryanlatta.comhttp://dev.tohttp://twitter.com/recursivefaultsCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life

Listen to (almost) all the 2018 guests answer the same question: what is the most important thing you learned in 2018?In order of appearance:Emily Bache http://twitter.com/emilybacheDarren Hoehna http://twitter.com/activefireballMarkus Harrer http://twitter.com/feststelltasteJessica Kerr http://twitter.com/jessitronAnne Cahalan http://twitter.com/northofnormalMario Rogic http://twitter.com/realmarioRichard Rodger http://twitter.com/rjrodgerSteven Schwenke http://twitter.com/stevenschwenkeRob Allen http://twitter.com/akrabatCreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Special Music Jingle Bell Swing by Mark Smeby (CC BY ND 3.0)Your hostSoftware 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: info@devjourney.info or via Twitter @timothep.Gi

Darren is a software developer, currently working for Microsoft, and the founder of the "That Programming Guy" company through which he does the two things that he loves most: helping people and tutoring in programming. When he's not working, he either plays video games, or does chores.Together we talked about the detours Darren took in order to become a developer, like working for U-Haul and not finishing his college degree. Then we talked about the interviews he lived through and how he dealt with imposter syndrom. Finally, we touched on his entrepreneur philosophie and why he created "That programming guy". Here are the links of the show:http://www.linkedin.com/in/dhoehnahttps://twitter.com/activefireballhttps://www.thatprogrammingguy.comhttps://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/42CreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life

Rob Allen is a software consultant and developer with many years experience and writes code in PHP, Swift and other interesting languages. He leads Slim Framework's development team and contributes to Apache OpenWhisk and other open source projects. Rob is a published author and based in the UK where he runs Nineteen Feet Limited, focussing on API development, training and consultancy. In his spare time, Rob blogs at akrabat.com and can often be seen with a camera in his hand.Rob briefly told us about his studies and then we moved over to his favorite topics: serverless computing, open-source development and communication!Here are the links mentionned:https://19ft.comhttps://akrabat.comhttps://www.manning.com/books/zend-framework-in-actionTwitter: @akrabatNote: we recorded in a giant room and managed to avoid most of the echo... but not all of it. Sorry for that!CreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourgu

Emily is a Technical Agile Coach and a very experienced one. In her career, she has embodied pretty much all the positions our industry has to offer and built a polyglott bagage that definitely makes me blush... from Python and Scala to Ruby and C++. Emily is the author of "the Coding Dojo Handbook", a few video classes on Pluralsight and she also regularly speaks at international conferences and panels with none other than "Robert C. Martin".Emily told us her story. How she discovered programming and eased into it. How she came to relocate to Sweden and embraced the swedish work-life-balance. Finally Emily told us how she discovered and grew into the XP community, discovered Coding Dojos and became an advocate of technical agile coaching herself.Here are the links of the show:https://twitter.com/emilybachehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/emilybachehttps://leanpub.com/codingdojohandbookhttp://coding-is-like-cooking.infohttps://craft-conf.comhttps://github.com/emilybacheCreditsMusic Something El

Richard Rodger was co-founder and CEO of his previous company, nearForm, where he helped take the company from scratch to an annual turnover of €17 million. Previously, he was CTO of FeedHenry, a mobile application platform provider that was acquired by RedHat for €63.5m in 2014. For several years, Richard has been an active member and influencer of the open source software (OSS) community. He is the creator and maintainer of senecajs.org, a microservices framework for Node.js. Richard is also the host of the monthly Dublin Microservices meetup in Ireland. Richard writes a weekly column in the Irish Independent newspaper. His latest book, The Tao of Microservices, was published by Manning in 2018.Together, we talked about how detours sometimes do lead you exactly where you need to be. We touched on learning software engineering with Python before jumping onto the crazy Javascript Bandwaggon. And we finally discussed a different way of looking at microservices.Here are the links of the show:http://twitter.com/

Markus Harrer has developped an expertise in software analytics, "software restoration" and clean code. As a freelance trainer and consultant, he shows his clients how software products can be sustainably improved with the help of a datacentric and comprehensible analysis.Together we talked about the basics of data analytics, how Markus got into it and how and why you also should try it. We talked about the standard tools and mindset required to strive in this branch.Here are the links of the show:http://twitter.com/feststelltastehttp://www.feststelltaste.dehttps://www.feststelltaste.de/knowledge-islandshttps://www.feststelltaste.de/mining-performance-hotspots-with-jprofiler-jqassistant-neo4j-and-pandas-part-1-the-call-graphhttps://www.feststelltaste.de/mini-tutorial-git-log-analysis-with-python-and-pandashttps://www.feststelltaste.de/how-to-find-time-to-learn-after-workhttps://speakerdeck.com/feststelltaste/https://projects.datacamp.com/projects/111https://www.anaconda.com/https://jupyter.orghttps:

Katharine Jarmul is co-founder of KIProtect, a data security and privacy company for data science workflows in Berlin. She's been using Python since 2008 to solve and create problems. She helped form the first PyLadies chapter in Los Angeles in 2010, and co-authored an O'Reilly book along with several video courses on Python and data. She enjoys following the latest developments in machine learning, natural language processing, data privacy and ethics and workflow automation infrastructure. Together we first talked about her journey from journalism to software development. We then drifted toward her mentor and her willingness to give back to the communities. We spoke about diversity and finally tackled the topic of security and privacy.Here are the links of the show:https://twitter.com/kjam https://de.linkedin.com/in/katharinejarmulhttp://kjamistan.comhttps://kiprotect.comhttp://www.pyladies.comhttps://pydata.org/berlin2018http://heartofcode.orghttps://www.thestrangeloop.comhttps://www.swisscybersto

In this episode I talk to Mario Rogic. Mario is a technology aficionado with a particular love for the web. Among many other things, Mario believes technology should make life simple and joyful, and he enjoys being able to prove so. He lives in London, works as Head of Technology for locomote.com and he organises and runs the Elm London Meetups. We first discussed about public speaking and how it helps us prepare content and communicate better in our everyday life. And of course, Mario described how he comes up with new topics to speak about. We then talked about ELM, what it is, how Mario came to being so fond of ELM and why you should jump on the bandwagon as well. Finally Mario gave us two very profound advices to progress on our careers: "absorbe as much as you can" and "communicate as much as you can".Here are the links of the show:https://twitter.com/realmariohttp://mario.net.auhttps://github.com/supermariohttp://elm-lang.orghttps://elmlang.herokuapp.comhttps://www.thestrangeloop.com

In this episode I talk to Adrian Bolboaca. Adrian is a programmer, trainer and a coach. His passion is helping teams produce high quality software. Adrian is a supporter of Deliberate Practice, experiments, and experiental learning. In 2016 he published a book about hosting and facilitating a coderetreat, a one-day deliberate practice concept for programming. We touched on the topics of learning theory and university curriculum. We spoke about polyglot programing, about full stack development and deliberate practices. We finally touched on abstractions and toolbelts without fogetting philosophy! Here are the links of the show:https://twitter.com/adibolb http://blog.adrianbolboaca.rohttps://mozaicworks.com/trainers-coaches/adrian-bolboacaCreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Your hostSoftware 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 timbourguigno

In this episode, I talk with Steven Schwenke. Steven is a software craftsman, mentor and mentee aus Braunschweig in Germany. Together we discussed CS-degrees, mentoring, communication, hard- and soft-skills, motivation, purpose and much more. Here are the links of the show:http://www.stevenschwenke.dehttps://stevenschwenke.de/eventshttp://twitter.com/stevenschwenkeCreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Your hostSoftware 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: info@devjourney.info or via Twitter @timothep.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading the good word about this podcast. And please leave a rating (excellent of course) on the major podcasting platforms, this is the best way t

In this episode I talked to Arnaud Porterie. Arnaud is VP of Engineering at Vente Privée, a french eCommerce Business. Previously, he managed the open-source group at Docker, which radically changed his views on managing software development at scale. Together, we spoke about the parallel between managing engineering teams and building communities. We touched on open source software and culture, and the ways to make engineering teams strive. Here are the links of the show:http://twitter.com/icecrimeCreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Your hostSoftware 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: info@devjourney.info or via Twitter @timothep.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading th

In this episode, I speak with Jessica Kerr. Jessica makes software to help others write software to help themselves build software at Atomist. Her adventures include advocating for functional programming and systems thinking at software conferences around the world, but also keeping two children alive and podcasting on "Greater Than Code". We touched on her introduction to public speaking. We talked about balancing a family life and traveling for work. We segwayed into networking and the power of people and landed on mentoring/mentorship. Here are the links of the show:http://twitter.com/jessitronhttp://www.jessitron.comhttp://www.atomist.comhttp://www.greaterthancode.comhttp://www.re-deploy.iohttp://www.thestrangeloop.comCreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Your hostSoftware 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.

In this episode, I interviewed Anne Cahalan. Anne is an iOS developer at Detroit Labs, where she is constantly delighted by the niftiness of Swift. Anne told us her story. From the Bootcamp she went to and the apprenticeship program she followed, up to her "moving out" of "Junior-Developerness" and all its implications. We finally touched on the topic of mid-career development, which was the topic of her talk at the London SPA-Conference where we met.Here are the links of the show:http://twitter.com/northofnormalhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/annecahalanhttps://www.detroitlabs.comCreditsMusic Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0)Your hostSoftware 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: info@devjourney.info or via Twitt