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Educative Sessions engages the global developer community through the power of storytelling. We collaborate with people who have fascinating experiences about their coding journeys. Topics covered: beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, rushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, and more! | Subscribe on YouTube! ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ | Share Your Story! ►► https://bit.ly/educative-sessions-signup-2022 | Season 1 Recap! ►► https://youtu.be/P-5HK9_XegY | Season 2 Recap! ►► https://youtu.be/2xlLxQ2Vf2s | Season 3 Recap! ►► https://www.youtu.be/Cn9azzET-_w | Get 10% off Educative! ►► https://educative.io/educativelee
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Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
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Adodoola Omiyale is more than just her day-job. Her one regret is asking herself "what if" or "I wish I did" years down the line. Her curiosity got the better of her when she signed up to an online coding course & Technical writing workshop. Since then she has been nagivating through this space. Trying to see where she fits in or pondering whether to create her own lane in the Javascript & Data Visualization space.
Adodoola Omiyale grew up in the UK and works in software sales by day and by night is working on her other interests such as data viz projects using ObservableHQ. Her leaning never stops!
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Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
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More than 13 years ago Dmitry Vostokov was looking for a pattern language to analyse software traces and logs, and communicate analysis results. He didn't find anything existing, and being an avid reader, started a long fruitful journey of a vast multidisciplinary research.
Dmitry Vostokov has authored more than 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has over 25 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles.
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Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
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When you keep interviewing, you're prepared for how the interviewing landscape might change. In light of recent events regarding the economy, it's important to stay prepared to make a move to another company. It's a challenge to interview again if the last time you practiced was when you were hunting for your job years ago. By staying in shape and consistently interviewing, you ensure you're always prepared because the landscape does change. I chat further with Alex Nguyen on the topic of perpetual interviewing.
Alexander Nguyen is a software engineer at Google with previous experience at Microsoft and Amazon.
His superpowers are mentoring, teaching, and leading and building high-performance teams.
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Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
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Cloud or Solutions Architects are responsible for managing an organization’s cloud computing architecture and work as a trusted advisor for their customers. They have in-depth knowledge of architectural principles and services. Most SAs are hands-on and developers at heart. In this session, you will learn some traits of a high-performing architect and what employers look for in a cloud architect.
Muhammad Sajid is a high-octane cloud solutions architect with a passion for turning whiteboard drawings into fully functional cloud-native software solutions. He speaks regularly at several community and company events and conferences about cloud, architecture, and cloud-native software development.
He has a great interest in DDD, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Microservices, and Containerization.
His superpowers are mentoring, teaching, and leading and building high-performance teams.
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Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
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Harry Brundage worked closely with the CTO at Shopify scaling it from only a few thousand merchants to powering the biggest flash sales on the internet, but something inspired him to make a huge change. He's passionate about building the same high quality engineering experience and platform, which led him to start Gadget in 2020.
Harry Brundage is the co-founder and acting CTO of Gadget, the serverless stack for eCommerce app developers. Before Gadget, he worked at Shopify in numerous capacities, including building and scaling Shopify's backend infrastructure and frontend technology stack. After Shopify, Harry has built many other systems, allowing him to see first-hand how repetitive software development can be. This became the impetus for Harry and his colleagues to found Gadget -- it just doesn't need to be this hard!
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Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
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Boon Chew worked as a software engineer and game developer at several leading tech companies, including Microsoft and Amazon. Afterwards, he became involved more in startups, but he champions an alternative way to be successful in this space: think like a "parallel tech entrepreneur." Boon shares his perspective on Educative Sessions with Lee Ngo.
Boon Chew is the Founder of Tappollo Media, a leading mobile app studio, that creates apps that stand out from all the noise. The company has built apps for Discovery Channel, iHeartRadio, WeWork, Timehop, and Walmart. Tappollo Media also created the open-source framework Booster, which startup founders can use to accelerate mobile app development for their businesses.
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Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
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Linc Kroeger is the President of Knight Moves, a limiting profit company creating the next generation of technology professionals through training in technology disciplines, with a focus on including Native American, rural, and urban underserved communities. His passion for fighting social inequality led him to leverage his 35 years enterprise technology experience to create a solution to help level the playing field and delivering technology solutions for the world’s most important causes.
Linc Kroeger has 35 years of enterprise tech experience with a career spanning the Fortune 500, commercial software development, and the DoD. Linc served on the Technology Association of Iowa board. He was assigned by Governor Reynolds to the Empower Rural Iowa Task Force and was identified as “the most innovative leader on bringing tech jobs to rural in the nation” by U.S. Congress member Ro Khanna. He was also the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Prosperity Tour keynote speaker.
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Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
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After 10 years as a software engineer, manager, and ultimately CTO at a small startup, Karl decided to make a big career leap into technical writing. Now, he runs a quickly-growing content writing agency with 15 full-time and 200 contract employees. He'll share some of the skills he learned as an engineering leader that helped him succeed in his new role as a CEO and encouragement for anyone looking to make a big career change.
Karl Hughes is a former CTO and engineering leader in Chicago who left software engineering in 2020 to become a writer. He now leads Draft.dev, a technical content writing agency where he works with over 150 software engineers to write tutorials and blog posts for tech companies around the world.
Learn more about our guest: Technical Marketing Content for Software Startups | Draft.dev
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Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
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As an established leader in AI, Peter Voss is passionate about answering the question of making AI more and more human. What is (and isn't) AI? How much further does AI need to go to reach that "human" threshold? Should we be concerned about this closing of the gap, or is there a bigger problem to keep in mind? We discuss all this and more in Educative Sessions.
Peter Voss started out in electronics engineering, but quickly moved into software. After developing a comprehensive ERP software package, Peter took his first software company from a zero to 400-person IPO in seven years. Peter founded SmartAction.ai in 2009, which developed the first AGI-based call center automation technology. Now, in his latest venture, Aigo.ai, he has created a ‘Conversational AI’ technology with a mission of providing hyper-intelligent hyper-personal assistants for everyone.
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Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
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Web developers always face all kinds of challenges. Werner Echezuria faced a particularly challenging yet not uncommon one: emigrating from an unstable environment to seek new opportunities. In our Session, developer and Rust champion Werner Eschezuria talks about his life trajectory, overcoming his own problems and now doing what he can to help others in technology and beyond.
Werner Echezuria is a web developer with 15 years of experience in the world of Development Software. An eager student, always trying to discover new things and face the challenges of the programming world. Mainly focus on Ruby on Rails, he is very familiar with the challenges that a scalable app requires.
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Monday May 30, 2022
Monday May 30, 2022
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Learn more about our guest here: https://artmonster.dev
What can ML actually do for a business? Liz Howard founded and runs an ML-enabled product business, using technologies labed "AI" for the maximum possible number of things as the thesis of the business. There are quite a few things AI can do for us, but not everything (yet.) AI is really more of a story than it is a technology? What about the copyright implications of AI Art? Liz will discuss what she actually uses AI technologies for & if it's worth it.
Liz Howard is a Computer Science Professor who works with CodePath.org and Karat.io to educate and assess tens of thousands of students and engineers across the country every year. Her role is to determine how to assess software engineers of various types with industry-wide data science and 20 years of experience as an engineer, professor, and CTO. Right now Liz is founding ArtMonster, an AI-based design and fashion brand with an upcoming AI-based interface with ArtMonster, the name of the AI.
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Monday May 23, 2022
Monday May 23, 2022
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Maria Elijah started learning programming languages such as Python, etc. during her undergraduate study. She wasn't specific about her career path until she went for an internship program at an IT firm, where she got to work with developers; one of which was a Flutter developer. He gave her an overview of the Flutter framework. She then did her research, loved it, took a course, and started writing codes for any app design she could find online. She discovered that coding naturally became easy.
Maria Elijah is a flutter developer and a technical writer. She makes DIY projects using hardware components such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, etc. Using these components, she has written several articles. In sports, she is a fan of soccer and basketball. Maria also loves cooking and believes learning never stops.
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
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Brett Greene has worked extensively for the Puget Sound technical community, but more recently he's been interested in diverting his energy towards a cause that's personal to him: managing ADD/ADHD. For many people, it's a term that's thrown around to describe a person's poor attention span, but for Brett it's a daily campaign to harness his brain to its maximum potential. For more, visit https://epsiloncocahing.com.
Brett Greene coaches tech executives through ADD, ADHD, and business challenges to be happier and more successful instead of failing because they don't have enough experienced support. Brett has appeared on NBC, CNBC and CBS television, & shared a stage with national government leaders. He has built an engaged technology community with over 60,000 members, worked with multiplatinum bands, been a Top 35 Social Media Power Influencer in Forbes, and spoken at the White House. https://epsiloncocahing.com.
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Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
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Swizec Teller started his career coding PHP websites for $5/hour, now he leads teams at hyper growth startups in Silicon Valley. Along the way he learned a new senior mindset focused on business outcomes and ownership. He learned what makes these startup engineers special. Why they make those crazy salaries despite not being any better at writing code. Now he wants to share that with the world at SeniorMindset.com.
Swizec Teller is a software engineer, author, educator, and indie hacker from Slovenia. His career in San Francisco changed how he thinks about coding and he wants to share those lessons.
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Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
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We know that not every line of code is equally valuable, but how do you work on valuable things? Developers obsess over frameworks and code quality, but in reality the best outcomes are more determined by product-market-founder fit than code quality. Swyx is a former hedge fund investor turned developer and has some interesting thoughts based on seeing through 2 unicorn startups.
swyx has worked on React and serverless JavaScript at Two Sigma, Netlify and AWS, and now serves as Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io. He has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His nontechnical writing was recently published in the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developers.
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Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
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Throughout his career, Iain Adams has done many different types of jobs tech support, developer, dev manager, analyst, product manager and program manager, but I never felt that I had place to call home until he realised he is a TPM. Through understanding, Iain discovered Educative and how it is helping me strengthening his tech skills now and in the future. Now, Iain has direction and purpose as his motivation has skyrocketed.
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Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
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Before Dr. Guy Yachdav worked to map the immune system with Immunai, he served as a project supervisor in Munich that made international headlines. Using the same machine learning algorithms to analyze genomic data, Guy applied it to predict a question on everyone's mind at the time: in the Game of Thrones, who will win ... and who will die? Guy's work shows us that with the right skill and mindset, it's very possible to explore a wide variety of questions, even and especially on matters of life and death.
Guy Yachdav is a very experienced engineer and ML practitioner. He has been building software tools and databases used in pharmaceutical genomic research for more than 15 years. He currently works for Immunai maps the immune system. More than 150 people with a multidisciplinary background in immunology, genomics, AI, and engineering are working together at Immunai to discover new therapeutics to fight cancer and accelerate drug development. To learn more: immunai.com
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Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
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This is the story of an A/B test which failed miserably. What seemed like a brilliant idea lead to the conversion rate and revenue per visitor fall inexplicably through the floor. In the series of epiphanies which follow, our protagonist happens upon the realisation that his failure actually saved his employer millions of pounds.
Oliver Palmer ran his first A/B test back in 2008 while contracting at a London law firm. He discovered with a handful of experiments and a few false starts that he was able to halve their cost of acquisition on Google’s most notoriously expensive PPC keyword.
Since then, in addition to working as an experimentation practitioner, Oliver works as a consultant and coach to help enterprise businesses become more adept at running business experiments at scale. You can learn more at oliverpalmer.com.
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
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After working for years in game development, Aaron Smith and Ben Carcich have realized that what the games industry is consistently struggling with comes back to what they call "holistic leadership." That is leaders that focus not just on managing the process, but on actively building culture and product thinking into their teams and organization. They've built a leadership consulting company (valarinconsulting.com) to work with industry leaders and grow their organizations and capabilities.
Ben Carcich and Aaron Smith are the principals and co-founders of Valarin Consulting. To learn more about them, visit here: valarinconsulting.com.
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
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Emily Hill spent 6 LONG years learning to program. After receiving a BS in CS with a 4.0 her final two years of college, she still couldn't code her way out of a paper bag. Clearly, more school was the solution, and she enrolled in a PhD program in CS. In the end, she still had to teach herself! Since her eureka moment, Emily has made it her mission to demystify the art of programming & software development by teaching aspiring coders how to work smarter, not harder.
Dr. Emily Hill is a software engineering trainer, educator, & mother of 4 kiddos. After teaching problem solving & coding skills to college students for over 10 years as a tenured professor, she realized she could teach the same skills faster, better, and cheaper outside of the university, where she helps learners realize their dreams of becoming 6 figure developers. She is the founder of the Joy of Coding Academy (joyofcoding.academy).
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