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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 Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
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Obinna Asiegbulam knew he had to attend university and become a successful mechanical engineer and support his four siblings and widowed mother, all of whom sacrificed their own opportunities to help him succeed. However, Obinna fell quickly out of love with drafting and wanted to do something new. Seeing the potential of the Nigerian tech sector and the creative potential of coding, Obinna had to make a sacrifice of his own.
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Obinna is a 28-year-old software developer from Nigeria. He is the fourth of five children of a widowed mother. Despite his poor background, he did everything possible to acquire a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Although his upbringing was plagued by the untimely death of his father, followed by prolonged hardship, he remained passionate about education. His attentiveness to details and positive can-do attitude have kept him afloat and made him standout.
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Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
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At an early age, Davit Buniatyan was poised for a stellar career in academia. However, for some reason, he refused the call to jump into tech entrepreneurship after his PhD advisor at Princeton left to pursue a new calling. Eventually, Davit got the call to pursue his own startup idea as well. Check out David's story from the academy to the Valley.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
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Ngbede Alike came from humble beginnings before he attended university, studied chemical engineering, and eventually became a software engineer. However, he believes the problem with learning tech for people like him is not entirely a question of access. For him, much of it has to do with acquiring the right "mindset" to code.
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Ngbede Alike is a Java Engineer Trainee at Decagon and an award-winning contributor to the Edpresso platform at Educative. He would introduce himself as a dreamer. He hopes someday to work at Google, working on applications for billions of people and having an impact on the world through technology.
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Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Before Brian Leonard became the CEO of Grouparoo, he was the CTO of TaskRabbit, once faced with the difficult choice of abandoning aspects of their business that actually made money and had community support. Watch as we discuss how he and his team navigated their way out of this "technical debt."
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Brian Leonard is the CEO and co-founder of Grouparoo, the open source customer data framework that makes it 10x easier to integrate customer data with cloud-based tools. Before that, he was CTO and technical co-founder of TaskRabbit, a pioneer in the gig economy.
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Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
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At the Python Meetup group in Munich, Germany, one of the organizers heard Boris Zalkin could drum. "What if you brought your drum kit to our next Meetup? What's the worst that could happen?" Even though he empathizes with the ears and experiential expectations of other Meetup attendees, Boris came to play. Check out the rest of this story.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/0ovigV5WpB0
Boris Zalkin is Certified Software and Cloud Architect Expert who has solid experience designing and developing complex solutions based on the Azure, Google, AWS clouds. Boris has expertise in building distributed systems and frameworks based on Kubernetes, Azure Service Fabric, etc. His areas of interest include Enterprise Cloud Solutions, Edge Computing, High loaded Web API and Application, Multitenant Distributed Systems, Internet-of-Things Solutions.
Boris Zaikin's Medium blog: https://boriszn.medium.com/
The Epic Python Show videos with drums: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HO6AAgDl0eA0CusEMnN_g
A post about the experience: https://medium.com/@boris.zaikin.drums/how-to-use-your-e-drums-for-real-time-shows-with-skype-zoom-and-discord-c470a4760178
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Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
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When Chibuike Nwachukwu began his programming journey in college, it was really difficult for him to find his path. From his ever-changing interests to lack of mentorship and guidance, its a surprise he stayed focused. Now that he's matured, he sees to it that no junior coder he encounters has to go through the many avoidable hassles he went through.
In our session, Chibuike tells us how helping others helped him become a better coder and also help him find himself along the way.
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Chibuike Nwachukwu is a self-educated software engineer and technical Writer. He is a passionate problem solver, who enjoys constant learning and knowledge sharing. When not coding, you would find him playing games or forming new partnerships.
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Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
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Rainer Grimm loves to teach and explain modern C++. Consequently, he has written a few books, a few courses, and videos about modern C++. Most C++ developer know Rainer because he is the author of the blog Modernes C++ (https://www.modernescpp.com/) that started as a German blog. Both blogs are more than five years old have about 1000 posts and in average 100,000 readers a week.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/hvGmHu0QVJs
Rainer Grimm has worked as a software architect, and team lead. In 2002, he created company-intern meetings for further education and started to give trainings. Rainer loves to write articles. He publish weekly on his English blog and the German blog. Since 2016 he is an independent instructor for C++ and Python. Rainer published several books in various languages to modern C++ and concurrency, in particular. Due to his profession, Rainer always searches for the best way to teach modern C++.
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Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
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Marsha Tufft got her first D ever in physics – electricity and magnetism–sophomore year, and later went on to complete a Ph.D. in engineering. But that D rocked her world. She didn’t know if she had what it took to continue in engineering. When the rubber hit the road, it was the hobbies and creative design projects she did as a kid that provided the resilience and grit to stay the course.
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Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
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Kevin started Mako Design + Invent in high school, then incorporated in University where Kevin was section class president at the Ivey Business School (Harvard's sister school). He then studied overseas at Hong Kong University for supply chain management & manufacturing. He then went full time at Mako Design + Invent in 2007 after nervously turning down the pick of the litter job offers. Still, to today, Mako Design has no debt, no financing, and no shareholders - a true grassroots organic startup story.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/vWmo1Xxu36A
Kevin Mako is the world’s leading expert on hardware startups. Founder of MAKO Design + Invent (makodesign.com), the pioneer firm for providing world-class end-to-end physical consumer product development tailored to inventors, product startups, & small manufacturers. Masters of Engineering lecturer, sits on a number of entrepreneurship & education boards, and holds the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award designation. Host of The Product Startup Podcast, the hardware development industry’s leading podcast.
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Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
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Thibaut LaBarre joined Amazon as an intern where he built Heartbeat, a Natural Language Processing tool that combines millions of data points from disparate feedback sources like product reviews, customer contacts, social media, and provides this information to worldwide product teams. Thibaut grew the team from my internship project to an organization of 20 engineers, transitioning into a manager role. After 7 years at Amazon, he made the jump back to a builder role at a startup.
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/fPTdz-c2MN4
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Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
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Dr. James Stanier never intended to become a manager, let alone a Director or VP. He certainly never intended to publish a book about it either! Dr. Stanier shares his story from doing a Ph.D. to failing to get an academic job to joining a start-up which grew rapidly through numerous venture capital investment rounds. After reading lots of books on management in the "business" world, he applied what he knew to help shape the Engineering department at Brandwatch and now Shopify.
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Dr. James Stanier is (soon to be) Director of Engineering @ Shopify, and before that was SVP Engineering at Brandwatch. He runs theengineeringmanager.com and has published Become An Effective Software Engineering Manager with Pragmatic Programmers, which will soon be a course on Educative. There's another book on remote working in the works too.
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Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
Roxanne Agerone went from working in chemistry to working in software over the course of the year. After being accepted into a prestigious coding program Seattle, Roxanne sold everything she owned, bought a school bus, packed it full of everything that was left, and drove across the country. It has been four years of software development, and she loves it. (No, Roxanne doesn't still live in a bus, but it was a great adventure and so worth it.)
Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/u9RspXeuZj4
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Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
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Daphnie Ozioma graduated from university in Nigeria with a focus on microbiology in 2018, but after graduation, she decided to attend a coding bootcamp instead and become a program manager. When she got there, Daphnie discovered there was no PM tutor, so she opted for web development where she learned the basics of HTML and CSS. For her mandatory National Youth Service Corps in November 2019. Daphnie applied as a developer to Flexisaf (an EduTech company) for her service year and she got retained as a junior developer afterwards.
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Daphnie Ozioma is a junior front-end developer, a technical writer, and an advocate for readable codes. She is a responsible foodie, a fitness enthusiast (health is wealth), and loves to travel. Asides from tech, Daphnie stays on top of information in the health sector, especially in medicinal drugs and bacteriology. Her mantra for life is "Love the life you live, live the life you love."
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Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
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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.
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Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
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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.
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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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Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
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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.
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Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
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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.
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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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Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
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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.
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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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Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
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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.
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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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Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
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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
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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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