Developer's Journey

Larysa placed the start of her journey in the country she was born in, the Soviet Union, with her discovery of those books filled with 0s and 1s that she could not understand. Fast forward a few years, and she is hooked by Maths and Computer Science and doesn't want to do anything else. After her Master's degree in Odessa, she moved to Germany and studied again. From then on, we talked about how she pursued a Ph.D., pivoted on the problem she was tackling, and discovered a new field ML-Ops. We discussed the state of ML-Ops, how it is placed in the "Data" and ML problem chain, and how one should go at it.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/visengerhttps://ml-ops.org/https://ml-ops.org/content/phase-zerohttps://ml-ops.org/content/end-to-end-ml-workflowhttps://github.com/visenger/awesome-mlopshttps://women-in-data-ai.tech/https://mlops.community/https://www.linkedin.com/in/larysavisenger/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530415.The_Art_of_Doing_Science_and_EngineeringCre

From a trainee reconversion program in the early 80s, Lisa took us on a fantastic testing journey. From discovering Agile before its time, living through highly collaborative Waterfall projects, to embracing XP and being one of the first to challenge the absence of "Testers" in the first installments of the method. Lisa spoke of how she came to write her first book, working with legends of our industry and kept being fascinated by quality.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/lisacrispinhttps://octodon.social/@lisacrispin@mastodon.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crispin-88420a/https://lisacrispin.com/https://leanpub.com/agiletesting-condensedhttps://agiletester.cahttps://agiletestingfellow.comCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Emmanuel placed the start his journey in the 80s in a computer club. He described how he learned GW-BASIC and became hooked. He told about his love for music and how his parents encouraged him to pursue "real studies." He explained how he went to the USA to study Computer Science, music, and Japanese... and became a theater composer. He discussed his first job as a programmer and being bored (and bad at it) until he discovered eXtremeProgramming. He talked about learning TDD, exploring what became Katas, and creating a coding dojo.  He spoke about finding psychotherapy, becoming a psychotherapist, and much more. This was a wild ride worth every minute.Here are the links from the showhttps://changer-grandir.org/https://mc-mallaret.fr/CreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Krisztina placed the start of her journey by writing a few lines of PHP on a website and being hooked. But then we rolled back to hear about her life behind the iron curtain in her home country of Romania. We discussed her first career as a mechanical engineer and how this led her to write her first BASIC lines of code, move to Germany, and start from scratch. We talked about her reconversion and not finding jobs. We spoke about the job she finally found and how this opened her to a world of possibilities and communities. Finally, we discussed architecture, the coding architect, and her current role.Here are the links from the showhttps://mastodon.social/@yellowbrickchttps://yellow-brick-code.org/https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-hirth-yellowbrickcode/https://virtualddd.com/https://dddeurope.com/CreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms h

Tomas placed the start of his journey in high school, where he was part of a group of friends interested in computers. His interest in "understanding what's under the hood" ignited there. He explained how working in the open, publishing small open-source components got him to "professional development" alongside his university studies. Then we talked about how his interest in transpiling C# to Javascript (before transpiling to JS was cool) led him to F#, which led him to a working relationship with Don Syme (designer of F#), which led him to Cambridge University, etc. We talked about his Ph.D. around context-dependent programming languages and coeffects. We ended on science philosophy, debugging & testing, and how languages are taught nowadays at university.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/tomaspetricekhttps://tomasp.net/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomaspetricek/https://tomasp.net/coeffects/https://tomasp.net/techdims/http://fsharpconf.com/https://datascienc

Marjorie placed the start of her journey during her work as an agronomist when she wrote her first R lines of code. She explained how her childhood in southern France brought her to study plants, create a hydroponic startup, work on risk and project management, and slowly become interested in web development. We spoke of her Bootcamp and how she found her first job. We discussed eXtreme-Programming and Mob-Programming, and what it's like to be a newbie in a teaching environment.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/marjorie-aubert-full-stack-developer/CreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Mathias placed the start of his journey with both hands on a TRS-80 computer and no other games to play than a compiler and the BASIC language. But fast forward a few years, we spoke about his music studies, his work creating music for ads and movies, and how programming came back as a hobby, which finally took precedence. We then jumped with both feet into languages and modeling. We spent the rest of the interview talking about interactions and how models serve us programmers and help our domains innovate.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/mathiasverraeshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mathiasverraes/https://mastodon.social/@mathiasverraeshttps://verraes.net/https://www.aardling.eu/https://2023.dddeurope.com/CreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Diana placed the start of her journey with her grandmother and maths, and having the feeling that she loved the wrong things. We discussed how she discovered computers but didn't embrace them for a long time. Diana explained how she wanted to become a writer, moved to Montana, and opened a bookshop. We talked about isolation and rediscovering programming, online gaming, and communities and how she finally went all-in, moved to Austin, TX, and said "YES" to everything. We saw how she became a systems expert, her favorite topic nowadays.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/dianamontalionhttps://mentrixgroup.comCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Aida wanted to place the start of her journey three years ago when she started being a developer at ThoughtWorks. But then she went back more than a decade and started talking about her programming classes at university and how her first job was a manual QA Engineer job. Ensued a learning journey, trying to get into QA automation, thinking about going "back" to software development, and finding new problems to solve instead, like being the only engineer at a startup, building a QA team from scratch, getting to continuous delivery, etc.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/aidamannaCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Bobbi placed the start of her journey with the absence of a gaming console and the presence of a family computer instead. She spoke about exploring and solving minor problems. But also about how music was her world as a teenager, she talked about ADHD/ADD and how her love for music brought her to a rabbi school in Israel. She explained how she learned to learn out loud, hacked her disability, and used this to her advantage. We finally spoke about the accident, which cost her a hand and designing and printing her keyboard.Here are the links from the showhttps://youtube.com/@BobbiCodeshttps://www.patreon.com/bobbicodeshttps://octodon.social/@BTowersCoding@functional.cafeOne-handed keyboard https://github.com/BTowersCoding/trocheehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbi-Towers/https://www.clojuriststogether.org/exercism.orgCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significa

Claude placed the start of his journey in the early days of the internet, learning HTML for the sake of Beanie Babies. He then described how this triggered his curiosity and ignited a never-ending passion. We talked about his first job and how his coworkers helped him navigate his unknown unknowns. How communities and relationships helped him evolve and grow. We then jumped into management and how he first dipped his toes into it for the wrong reasons, became a leader, and finally got the position. We discussed the challenges that transitioning to another company as a leader brought. And we finally talked about embracing failure and realizing that the organization has your back.Here are the links from the showhttps://twitter.com/claudejonesiiihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/claudejones/http://elevate.foundationhttp://thepracticalleadershipguy.com/http://sandiegotechhub.comhttps://astrothemonster.com/CreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; m

Limor placed the start of her journey in her early childhood, doing a lot of maths and playing with computers. As a brilliant student during high school, she could enroll in enrichment classes and dip her does into computer science, which took us to do her military service in the IDF's Intelligence Corps Technological Unit 81. We talked about her experience as a QA engineer there and how she discovered this field first-hand. We then discussed how she returned to university to study computer science and cognitive sciences. We discussed her first job, how she found it, and how she became an Android engineer. We discussed moving toward management, and finally, we talked about communities & mentorship and how it took her to Wilco, the company she worked for when we recorded the show.Here are the links from the showhttps://twitter.com/mc_limorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/limor-mekaitenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/shem-magnezihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyaradfelikBaot (the largest female engineering commu

Brandon placed the start of his journey with his grandmother in computer expos in the 90s. But before coming to programming, his tale took a long detour, made of a search for purpose, social recognition, and his identity. We spoke of a pattern interrupt in the form of a year teaching English at the other end of the planet and how Brandon finally came to enroll in a Bootcamp. We finished this great discussion on learning, teaching, and communities.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/campbellkearns_https://quarterlylearnings.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/campbellkearnsCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Bekah started with a poignant story of how the birth of her 4th child was a traumatic event that threw her into depression, PTSD, and questioning her place in the world. We then talked about her discovery of the FreeCodeCamp, and how she ended up saying, "I'm done" with her first career. We then discussed the role of communities in finding her first job and how COVID led to the creation of Virtual Coffee. We spoke extensively about Virtual Coffee and what makes it the inclusive place many developers cherish.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/BekahHWhttps://virtualcoffee.io/https://bekahhw.github.io/ML with Python Learning Group https://github.com/orgs/deepgram/discussions/74Find the video for this -> Bekah's Keynote at That-Conference https://that.us/activities/BojrAo0dd8x62Arj8s6U"Dan" that Bekah mentioned a few times https://twitter.com/danieltottCertified Fresh Events https://cfe.dev/CreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal Licen

Matthew placed the start of his journey as a kid, introduced to the world of Nerds by his brother-in-law. Fast forward a few years, Matt spent the better time of his homeschooling on IRC, building stuff. But when the time came to go to college, he avoided anything tech related. He described a few pivotal points that led him to finally embrace software development and have the blast of his life. We talked about his first jobs and how he entered the world of Video and never left. We finished talking about Mux, the company he co-created, and his aspirations for the future. Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/matt_mcclureCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon; more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show

Meshi placed the start her journey after high school when she did her mandatory military service in unit 8200 of the Israeli Defense Forces. She described how she learned cyber systems and cyber-analysis, became an officer and learned leadership early on. We then discussed how she wanted to explore, become a programmer and enroll in a part-time CS curriculum. We discussed becoming a team lead and what she took from the army. We talked about bringing the different aspects of her career together in her new role at Jit and how everything clicked in place. And finally, we discussed how mandatory military service brings young people to early adulthood, which is very beneficial in the professional world.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/meshi-yona-735826112/https://jit.ioCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://de

Nikhil placed the start of his journey in high school, where a teacher managed to light the programming flame in his heart. A few years later, Nikhil graduated with a CS degree and joined a startup. He learned the value of thinking about the problem, embracing the whole system, and not just the solution. This set him up to create his own company. We talked about why the first one failed and then about AppSmith. We finally talked about how he leads the company in embracing the problem by dog-feeding their product and being in constant dialog with the users.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/NikilNandagopalhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-nandagopal-05534241/https://www.appsmith.com/https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmithhttps://discord.com/invite/rBTTVJpnikhil@appsmith.comCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https:/

Dean placed the start of his journey in 6th grade, reading science fiction and dreaming of building robots. From there on, in the late 70s, the virus never left him. The rest of the interview was a history lesson about software engineering. Dean spoke of the first company he created in high school and funded by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. He talked about his time working for Xerox Parc and then on project Xanadu, e.g., Hypertext. Beyond this history of the Silicon Valley, we spoke about "old" scientific papers and how they apply today. About workflows, language design, smart contracts, Blockchains, web3, etc., and how they all have the same elementary building blocks, sync/async & blocking/non-blocking. What a ride!Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/DeanTribblehttps://www.twitter.com/agorichttps://www.linkedin.com/in/deantribble/https://agoric.com/blog/https://github.com/agorichttps://github.com/endojsCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License

Danny placed the start of his journey in high school when his astronomy class closed, and he had to take computer science instead. We then talked about the German concept of Berufsakademie and how he alternated between internships at Alcatel and a technical university for the next four years. We followed his journey from C++ to Java and Kotlin, creating drivers, discovering Blackberry development, and finally, Android. We talked about interviewing, having an impact, and interviewing again for the company that rejected you before. And we finished by talking about communities.Here are the links from the showhttps://www.twitter.com/PreusslerBerlinhttps://dpreussler.medium.com/https://developers.google.com/community/experts/directory/profile/profile-danny-preusslerCreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport

Chris placed the start of his journey during his first career as an HR professional. We first talked about how blogging put software development on his radar and how "interesting" HR experiences slowly but indeed pushed him to transition toward web development. We explored how he gamed the recruiter systems, applied, and failed his first job interviews. We brushed over communities and how he found his first job. We talked about ADHD and how he transformed his side activities into his full-time business.Here are the links from the showhttps://gomakethings.com/dev-journey/CreditsCover Legends by HoliznaCC0 is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal License.Your host is Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, more about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a rating on one of the significant platforms https://devjourney.info/subscribeSupport the show