Jessica Wilkins joins the show to talk about her origin story coming from being a musician to building a passion project to promote diversity in classical music and how she got pulled into the tech industry by warm, friendly communities.

We discuss a fun, approachable way to learn technology as we discuss Exercism, an online platform built to teach the joy of programming to everyone.

• (00:00) - Top 8 of Season 1: #7: "A fun, approachable way"
• (08:17) - Exercism
• (15:24) - FreeCodeCamp

• Black Excellence Music Project
• Exercism Learning Platform
• FreeCodeCamp

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• Jessica's Website
• Jessica's Twitter
• Jessica's LinkedIn
• Jessica's GitHub

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• Eddie - Host
• Jessica Wilkins - Guest

Carolina Lunardi Correa joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working as a supply chain professional to starting her first apprenticeship with Amazon!

We discuss how she learned to code using leet code, and how life brings her joy. We also talk about what caused her to make the switch, how she used her current experience to slowly shift into product development from the business side and then finally getting a role as a software engineering apprentice.

• (00:00) - Top 8 of Season 1, #8: I learned how by doing leet code (Carolina))
• (02:05) - Origin Story
• (14:26) - The Simple Things Bring Joy
• (18:55) - Accountability Buddies
• (22:11) - Wrapping Up

• Accountability Buddies Twitter Community

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• Carolina's LinkedIn
• Carolina's Twitter

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• Carolina Correa - Guest

Kelly Vaughn joins the show to talk about her origin story, from learning html in neopets to doing freelancing, and eventually founding her own agency. More recently, Kelly has shifted to work as an Engineering Manager and now Engineering Director at Spot AI.

We discuss how you have different levels of scope and responsibility depending on the size of the company you're working at and how changing the size of company you work at can be beneficial to your career and mental health. We dive into Kelly's love of reading and all the secrets she hides on her kindle 😉

• (00:00) - 1-44: I like to say I’m not gonna do something, and then I do it anyway
• (01:55) - Origin Story
• (11:29) - Reading (154 books last year!)
• (18:03) - Engineering Leadership Newsletter
• (19:26) - Wrapping Up

• Good Reads (The Site, but not Kelly's)
• Engineering Leadership Newsletter (Kelly's newsletter)

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• Kelly's Twitter
• Kelly's LinkedIn
• Kelly's Instagram
• Kelly's Mastodon

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• Kelly Vaughn - Guest

Mike Chen joins the show to talk about his origin story, from Medical School and Biotech Research to being a self-taught developer, Mike worked at bigger and bigger start-ups before landing jobs at Yahoo, Google, and AirBnB, before finding a home as the CTO of a start-up.

We discuss the pros and cons of start-ups vs. larger tech companies and why people may work for one or the other. We also talk about the delight of developer tooling, particularly in the React space with Next.js and Remix and how it fixes all the headaches we've had for years. We finish by chatting about a potential series Mike might write ... but will he?

• (00:00) - 1-43: A huge fan of spending as little time as possible typing
• (01:37) - Origin Story
• (06:43) - The Joy of Good Developer Tools
• (18:24) - Mike's Impending (or not impending) writing series
• (19:55) - Wrapping Up

🔗 Discussed Links

• Remix
• Next.js

🙋 Guest Links

• Mike's Website
• Mike's Twitter
• Mike's GitHub
• Mike's LinkedIn

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• Mike Chen - Guest

Ale joins the show to talk about her origin story, from growing up in Mexico and getting a degree in industrial engineering to switching into a career she is passionate about in software engineering.

We discuss some of the hardships that Ale went through in her career recently, and yet some of the insight and hope it has brought her for the future. We also chat about her amazing CSS art and how it brings her (and the rest of us!) joy.

🔗 Discussed Links

• Ale's Video about 2022
• Ale's CSS Art
• Pikachu Valentine's Day Card
• Psyduck CSS Art
• Kiki's Delivery Service Pixel Art

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• Ale's YouTube
• Ale's TikTok
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• Ale's LinkedIn

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Curtis Einsmann joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got into Amazon's internship, earned an SDE I position and after years at Amazon has broken out to start working freelance.

We discuss what it was like to work at Amazon, how he dealt with imposter syndrome and the lessons he learned from Amazon that helps him now work asynchronously at Gumroad, where he's only had 4 meetings this year!

🔗 Discussed Links

• The Medium article that started it all: "Amazon shouldn't have hired me"
• Master the Code Review
• How Gumroad works

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• Curtis' Blog
• Curtis' Twitter
• Curtis' LinkedIn

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Jennie Yip joins the show to talk about her origin story, from building Sailor Moon fan sites to helping lead the Design System at Atlassian as a Design Architect.

We discuss how she got into design, her integrated passions for design and software engineering, and we dive deep into Design Systems and how they support the companies they are built for, and it's inevitable need for a rebuild.

🔗 Discussed Links

• Atlassian's Current Design System

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• Jennie's Twitter

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Ar'Niqua Colman joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working in higher education to diving into the world of programming, bootcamps, and #100Devs.

We discuss how hard it can be while trying to learn how to program, and how important it is to take care of yourself throughout the journey.

🔗 Discussed Links

• 100 Devs with Leon

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• Ar'Niqua's GitHub

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