![#69: “A Marine’s Giant Leap into Code” with Chris Zichko of ZichKoding | Educative Sessions]()
July 26, 2021
When he was seven years old, Chris Zichko dreamed of going to the Moon. Eighteen years later, every decision Chris made had revolved around that dream, including joining the Marine Corps and his more recent pursuit of software development. Chris now wants to make robots to automate every chore in his life, but he still hopes of achieving the overall astronomic dreams.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/x0yF09Rdlis
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Chris Zichko is from the sticks of a small town: Crossville, TN. He decided to join the Marine Corps in 2015. While in the Marine Corps Reserves as a Combat Engineer, he was able to travel the country. After dropping out of college studying physics to move to Florida, Chris wanted to make something more out of his life. He now works on projects through his company Zichkoding. You can follow his work at @zkoding.
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 69: "A Marine's Giant Leap into Code" with Chris Zichko of ZichKoding | Educative Sessions
![#68: “User Experience Done Right” with Alix Han, Veteran UX Designer | Educative Sessions]()
July 19, 2021
Imagine working in a world where everyone thinks of themselves as design critics and don't understand what you do as a user experience designer. UX design isn't just about making the logo bigger and things prettier. Through many years of experience, Alix Han (@alixito) is seasoned in fostering a user-centered culture and partnering with developers in order to create purposeful product that people actually want.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/EUXA5GRpYw0
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Alix Han has been a user experience design professional her entire career working for tech startups or startups within corporations. She has designed and launched v1s of: Zillow, AWS Marketplace, Microsoft OfficeLive Workspace, Qumulo, and more. She is an inventor on 5 utility patents for real-time interactive data visualization. To learn more about Alix, check out http://www.alixhan.com.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 68: "User Experience Done Right" with Alix Han, Veteran UX Designer | Educative Sessions
![#67: “Running a Game Studio” with Jakub Kasztalski of Unbound Creations | Educative Sessions]()
July 12, 2021
Jakub Kasztalski joins Educative Sessions to talk about his experiences managing and self-publishing a small indie game studio. This Session will cover the our timeline, the pros/cons of self-publishing, as well as some common pitfalls. This talk is aimed at newer developers considering working with a publisher vs. self-publishing as well as developer managers interested in the world of gaming design and development.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/x0yF09Rdlis
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Jakub Kasztalski (@koobazaur) is a Polish guy and a traveler. He lived all over world working on games, freelance writing, and even cinematography. He studied humanities and ethnic conflict, all of which inspire his creative works. He founded "Unbound Creations" in 2013, best known for their "Headliner" series of games where you play as a news editor and shape public opinion in a genetically modified society. What Jakub finds fascinating about games is that they are the one art form entirely based on interactivity.
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 67: "Running a Game Studio" with Jakub Kasztalski of Unbound Creations | Educative Sessions
![#66: “How Non-Fiction Made Me a Coder” with Divine Odazie of HackMamba.io | Educative Sessions]()
June 18, 2021
Divine Odazie started learning to code during his gap year before university, but Learning to code wasn’t rosy for Divine, from using a laptop that lasted 30 minutes without power to keeping late nights to access cheap internet. Stuck in tutorial hell for a year, he tried product management instead.
While writing non-fiction articles, Divine saw the need to write on problems he faced while building projects. Since then, it has been an awesome learning experience for him.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/ejM435n8JBE
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Divine Odazie is currently a software engineer and technical writer who spends his days’ building software and writing about it. Aside from the world of software, he enjoys watching football (soccer), listening to good music, traveling and having fun in his own way.
Divine is a frequent contributor to Edpresso, powered by Educative. Learn more about this vibrant community of software developers at https://educative.io/edpresso.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 66: "How Non-Fiction Made Me a Coder" with Divine Odazie of HackMamba.io | Educative Sessions
![#65: “Curing Programmer’s Disease” with Randy Hayes of House Chaos Games | Educative Sessions]()
June 14, 2021
In this episode, Randy Hayes wants to talk about a serious problem in the programming community. As coders, we create applications to fulfill a user’s needs. We should strive to avoid a Faustian bargain—meeting those requirements without helping the end user accomplish their intent.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/Jnp2fp_BQj4
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Randy Hayes has decades of experience helping individuals and organizations set, track, and achieve their goals. He has founded companies, executed and guided turnarounds, and worked with both small and large organizations.
Randy spent nine years as an officer in the Washington Army National Guard, holding many leadership positions. He was an honor graduate of multiple leadership courses. Randy has experience on both for-profit and non-profit boards.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 65: "Curing Programmer's Disease" with Randy Hayes of House Chaos Games | Educative Sessions
![#64: “Junior Developer … for Life?” with Rasheed Bustamam of Edvo | Educative Sessions]()
June 2, 2021
Although Rasheed Bustamam has worked in a senior capacity in many projects, he prefers to consider himself a "junior developer for life." This mentality helps him set aside his experience and ego and try to look at every project with a junior's perspective, asking himself questions like "Why is this written this way?", "Is this simple enough to understand?", and "Where are the gaps in my knowledge?" These questions help him think through solving business problems in a less complex manner.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/8PIY8xfac54
Rasheed Bustamam is an contributor to Edpresso by Educative. Learn more! ►► https://educative.io/edpresso
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Rasheed Bustaman is a self-educated software engineer. He went from working part time as a manager at an after-school learning center to working at a consulting firm, where he did enterprise consulting for organizations like Panzura and MIT. He started a cryptocurrency side project which ultimately got acquired, and now he going back to his roots in education by building a knowledge management software suite at Edvo.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
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Episode 64: "Junior Developer ... for Life?" with Rasheed Bustamam of Edvo | Educative Sessions
![#63: “#LearnInPublic & The Career Coding Handbook” with Shawn Wang aka swyx | Educative Sessions]()
June 1, 2021
Before Shawn Wang became @swyx, he worked in finance in Singapore, eventually realizing that the most interesting aspects of his work were ... based in code. Yet studying online and attending coding bootcamps was just the beginning: Shawn realized he had to start a movement inspired by his own love for creating developer experiences. Shawn talks about his work with the #LearnInPublic movement and his own contributions to the Educative platform.
Check out swyx's course here: https://www.educative.io/courses/coding-career-handbook
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/9maORXuCBHk
ABOUT OUR GUEST
swyx aka Shawn Wang helps build great developer experiences, from documentation to dev tools to dev communities.He is a frequent writer and speaker best known for the Learn in Public movement and recently published The Coding Career Handbook with more advice for engineers going from Junior to Senior. swyx is currently working on Developer Experience at Temporal.io. He am also a regular on the Svelte Radio podcast and my own Swyx Mixtape. You can find him on Twitter at @swyx.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
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Episode 63: "#LearnInPublic & The Career Coding Handbook" with Shawn Wang aka swyx | Educative Sessions
![#62: “From Freakonomics Fan to Open-Source Coder” with Chris Huie of Prebid.org | Educative Sessions]()
May 18, 2021
One of the first books that Chris Huie fell in love with was "...a story about a rogue economist" called Freakanomics. In it was a beautiful framework for how to approach problems and that mentality would lay the foundation for Chris's future. He would go on to study finance and end up having decently fast-paced career in business and finance. However, the zero-sum mentality that had served him well in the business world didn't feel natural. Open-source is the mental counter-point to zero-sum.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/76f1lkKroAA
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Chris Huie (@phoenixtechnerd) is an economist who fell in love with engineering. "Data Magician" will be a future job title for him someday. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer with Prebid.org.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/
Episode 62: "From Zero Sum to Open Source" with Chris Huie of Prebid.org | Educative Sessions
![#61: “{Re}-Discovering My Passion for Programming” with Hakon Verespej | Educative Sessions]()
April 14, 2021
Hakon Verespej was living the software developer's dream. After years of failed attempts, he'd finally landed a job at a major software company, but within a few years, he became disillusioned with his career as a whole. It took several years and a full career change to (re)discover just how deep his passion for the creative process of building software runs within him
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/vK5qycRgf1Q
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Hakon Verespej is a software developer who loves what he does enough that he doesn't call it "work." You can learn more about him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verespej/.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 61: "{Re}-Discovering My Passion for Programming" with Hakon Verespej | Educative Sessions
![#60: “Programming is a process. Let it come to you!” with Saad Akbar of Tintash | Educative Sessions]()
April 13, 2021
Saad Akbar used to think of himself as a very bad programmer. With practice and patience, he got better. In our session, he want to advise people that it's not worth stressing over. Getting good at programming comes with being patient with the process.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw8YMj5Ebhk
ABOUT OUR GUEST
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 60: "Programming is a process. Let it come to you!" with Saad Akbar of Tintash | Educative Sessions
![#59: “I Am A Developer Manager (And That’s Okay)” with Ted Neward of Quicken Loans | Educative Sessions]()
April 4, 2021
Twenty-five years ago, in a meeting with his manager, Ted Neward swore he'd never step away from coding. Yet he is now a senior executive in an almost entirely non-technical role. What happened? What does it mean to go to the Dark Side? Why would he think you might want to do the same?
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/PaeHBmxwlZM
ABOUT OUR GUEST
ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 59: "I Am A Developer Manager (And That's Okay)" with Ted Neward of Quicken Loans | Educative Sessions
![#58: “PuPPys Welcome! Lessons From an Expert Python Community Organizer” with Alan Vezina of LabKey Software | Educative Sessions]()
April 4, 2021
Alan Vezina has helped build two successful tech communities from the ground up, Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy), and PyCascades. Nearly everything that could have gone wrong has, but it hasn't prevented PuPPy or PyCascades from thriving. PyCascades has sold out every single year, and despite leadership changing quite a lot over time, it has continued to be a success, even during a pandemic.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/d1f1UyvoM7o
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Alan Vezina is a Software Engineer, Community Organizer, Painter, and Home Chef. You can find Alan on twitter @fancysandwiches where he posts his new paintings regularly.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 58: "PuPPys Welcome! Lessons From an Expert Python Community Organizer" with Alan Vezina of LabKey Software | Educative Sessions
![#57: “Don’t Take No For an Answer: Getting the Tech Job You Want” with Stevin Chacko of ChowNow | Educative Sessions]()
April 4, 2021
Stevin Chacko is a first generation immigrant hustled his way through college and pivoted his career several times, finally into data and analytics engineering. In a world of specialization, he talks about his path into different fields and how being a bit of a generalist with a lot of persistence can bring real value to your career.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/d1f1UyvoM7o
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Stevin Chacko is a Senior Data Analytics Engineer with ChowNow with an entrepreneurial sprit who loves to learn by doing. He is passionate about data and analytics, constantly learning and building products for businesses.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 57: "Don't Take No For an Answer: Getting the Tech Job You Want" with Stevin Chacko of ChowNow | Educative Sessions
![#56: “A Standup Comedian’s Guide to Working in Tech” with Sean Ottey of Roland Cloud | Educative Sessions]()
April 4, 2021
Without a high school degree, Sean Ottey stumbled into software development via support and quality assurance ... and eventually hated it. After discovering stand-up comedy, Sean learned to love changing hats and work his extroverted side, interacting with customers and solving problems in the technology world.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/d1f1UyvoM7o
ABOUT OUR GUEST
From a janitor job, Sean Ottey moved into a tech support position. Knowing he could do more, he leveraged his experience into a Testing position. From there, development came next. Microsoft, startups and large companies. Almost immediately, he hated it. Being a Stand Up comedian, he decided to combine his tech knowledge with his speaking experience. Eventually realizing that customer experience is the key, he now runs a Customer Success Team for Roland Cloud. Learn more at https://rolandcloud.com.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 56: "A Standup Comedian's Guide to Working in Tech" with Sean Ottey of Roland Cloud | Educative Sessions
![#55: “Pivoting into Code During a Pandemic” with Lisa Jiamsiriuongkul | Educative Sessions]()
April 3, 2021
At the beginning of the pandemic, Lisa Jiamsiriuongkul left her job to help her family navigate the challenging times of illness and death. Her previous jobs as a PM was a source of pride and purpose for her, but the pandemic changed what that career fulfillment meant to her. In the unique year we had, Lisa pivoted her efforts toward a full-time software engineering career in order to find her definition of “work-life balance”.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/JWrMbC7XofU
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Lisa Jiamsiriuongkul is a Software Engineer with a background in Product Operations and Project Management. She working on her technical portfolio to transition into a future developer role, check her out at visalisa.com. She previously worked in a data-driven PM role, where she was focused on the operational planning of data expansion and migration within the FinTech space.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 55: "Pivoting into Code During a Pandemic" with Lisa Jiamsiriuongkul | Educative Sessions
![#54: “How a Crypto CEO Took on an Actual Force of Nature” with Greg Edwards of CyberStopper | Educative Sessions]()
April 3, 2021
While Greg Edwards was taking a break from running a managed service provider (MSP) IT company to walk his dog in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he found himself caught right in the thick of a LAND HURRICANE (a.k.a) derecho. Listen to the steps he took to keep his community safe as well as make sure his business stayed afloat during downed power lines and a maze of fallen trees.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/JWrMbC7XofU
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Greg has been a technology entrepreneur since 1998. Before Greg founded CryptoStopper, he started Axis Backup, a backup and disaster recovery company for the insurance industry. He saw firsthand the rapid increase in the damage cyber criminals were doing with debilitating malware resulting in high financial loss to vulnerable companies. Between 2012 and 2015, one in five of Axis Backup’s clients was hit by cybercrime. Greg realized effective cyber security could save businesses from costly downtime and compromised systems. In 2015, Axis Backup was acquired by J2 Global, freeing Greg to create CryptoStopper and focus exclusively on cybersecurity.
More about Greg: hhttps://kitcaster.com/greg-edwards/
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 54: "How a Crypto CEO Took on an Actual Force of Nature" with Greg Edwards of CyberStopper | Educative Sessions
![#53: “How a Teacher Quiets Her Impostor Syndrome” with Rachelle Rathbone of Atlassian | Educative Sessions]()
March 26, 2021
When Rachelle Rathbone was a teacher she felt totally confident in her craft but when she switched careers, that confidence vanished. She constantly questioned her abilities and often felt like the dumbest person in the room.
Over the years she's learned to push back on imposter syndrome but, to this day, it still rears its ugly head the moment it senses even a hint of self doubt.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/SsNJOB_UqBI
ABOUT OUR GUEST
In 2016, Rachelle Rathbone retired from teaching, enrolled in a 6-month coding bootcamp course and took on her first engineering role early 2017. She's worked at a startup, a retail giant, and has embarked on her next adventure at Atlassian.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 53: "How a Teacher Learned to Quiet Her Impostor Syndrome" with Rachelle Rathbone of Atlassian | Educative Sessions
![#52: “A Sociological Doula Who Codes!” with Kay McKelly | Educative Sessions]()
March 24, 2021
Kay McKelly was in a PhD program for sociology, feeling unfulfilled and stunted in her interest in the Internet. She left sociology for midwifery, training as a doula and home birth midwife, volunteering with the Prison Birth Project. While she loved birthwork, she didn't want to mix capitalism with it, so she turned to something new: software development.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/8fwJdexUOw0
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Kay McKelly is currently a freelance software developer and virtual events organizer with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). When not in front of a computer, she likes knitting, cooking, petting all the cats, and continuous strand weaving.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 52: "A Sociological Doula Who Codes!" with Kay McKelly | Educative Sessions
![#51: “An Uzbek Woman’s Path to Data Science” with Sally Mitrofanov of Microsoft | Educative Sessions]()
March 24, 2021
Sally Mitrofanov started in America from as an Uzbekistan immigrant tenth-grader without any idea what to do with her life or how to navigate the college system in a new country. She tried many different directions until she stumbled into a data science meetup in Seattle, then quit her job and hoped she had what it takes to become a data scientist.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/wMbfyqUyxnI
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Sally Mitrofanov came to the US with her family when she was 15 from Uzbekistan. She studied International Studies and Economics at Towson University. Then she self-studied Actuarial Science and worked as life insurance pricing analyst for 3 years before she discovered data science. She then went through the Galvanize DSI program and landed her first job at AWS Fraud Prevention. Now she works at Microsoft in the Customer Growth Analytics group.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 51: "An Uzbek Woman's Path to Data Science" with Sally Mitrofanov of Microsoft | Educative Sessions
![#50: “Gaining My Focus Through Art and Engineering” with Parshad Patel | Educative Sessions]()
March 24, 2021
For much of his life, Parshad Patel struggled with being able to focus. He stammered when he communicated, avoided group activities, and often became lost in his own thought processes. After he sought professional help, Parshad realized the importance of being vulnerable in order to empower himself to change. Now that he is both a photographer and a professional in computer vision and deep learning, he's never been more comfortable in his own skin.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/HhbCtommdD0
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Parshad Patel is a serial entrepreneur and pragmatic researcher. He enjoy building products and connecting with folks solving humanity's next generation, especially in food and waste management. Parshad I currently work as a Data Scientist, Computer Vision at Yummly. He is also a hardcore meditation practitioner, photographer and HIIT-er.
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ABOUT EDUCATIVE
Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
Episode 50: "Gaining My Focus Through Art and Engineering" with Parshad Patel | Educative Sessions
