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    Lessons From a Veteran

    Lessons From a Veteran: Dawid Ziolkowski on Trusting and Taking the Plunge

    September 5, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Today we’re talking to Dawid Ziolkowski. Dawid has 10 years of experience. At the beginning, he worked as a network/system engineer, did DevOps in between, and recently became a cloud-native engineer. He’s worked for an IT outsourcing company, a research institute, telco, a hosting company, and a consultancy company, so he’s gathered a lot of knowledge from different perspectives. Nowadays, he’s helping companies move to cloud and/or redesign their infrastructure for a more cloud-native approach. If you’re considering a career switch…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Turning a Hobby Into a Fulfilling Career

    August 14, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Today we’re talking to Mauro Chojrin. Mauro helps PHP developers hone their craft through his trainings, books, workshops, and other tools. He’s been in the IT industry since 1997 and has held roles such as developer, architect, and leader of technical teams. Mauro also likes to write and vlog. Mauro is going to tell us about how he got his start in programming, and you may or may not recognize some of the throwback systems he references. While the technology may…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Back to School With Michael de Ridder’s Drunk Metaphors

    July 31, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Everyone has a different path in life, and that’s OK! Today we’re talking to Michael de Ridder, who tells us about how getting into programming was accidental, not intentional. And that’s OK, too. Michael has worked in software development, data visualization, data science, research, consulting, and business analysis across health care, telecommunications, radio and finance. He enjoys the challenge of combining and utilizing the relationships between different domains and technology. A big fan of travel, Michael is a proponent for the…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Gabriel Aizcorbe on Unexpected Lessons

    July 24, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Today we cover a lot of topics, from whether you should go into programming or IT to being specific about what you set out to learn to the lessons you’ll never learn until you start working. And we’re learning about all of these things from Gabriel Aizcorbe. Gabriel got into IT when he received his first 8088 at 14 years old. From then on, his whole life was about computers, programming languages, and learning more. As a project manager with PMP…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Approaching Things From a Different Direction

    June 12, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Today Eric Goebelbecker is telling us about what really matters for programmers. Eric is a developer, DevOps engineer, system administrator, and whatever else he needs to be for the small trading firm he works for. He’s also writes fiction and enjoys cycling in his free time. You can catch up with him here. How long have you been a programmer? What Stack do you work with? I’ve been working as a developer in one form or another for just about 28…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Step Outside of Your Comfort Zone

    May 30, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Today, Omkar Hiremath is telling us about lessons he’s learned during his journey as a programmer. Omkar uses his BE in computer science to share theoretical and demo-based learning on various areas of technology, like ethical hacking, Python, blockchain, and Hadoop. Let’s find out what advice he has for new programmers. Basic logistics: Stack? How long have you been doing it? I started programming when I was in school. Like everybody, I started with C and C++. But when I started…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Hard-Nosed Advice From a Softie

    May 15, 2020 /

    “Lessons from a veteran.” Ow, doesn’t that just make you want to duck and run? Trust me, I didn’t come up with the first part. Being called a veteran is a lot more attractive than the dinosaur label I put on myself more than 10 years ago (already!). Being a dinosaur is what it felt like, though, being at least 10 years older than my colleagues and having started in programming long before many of them were even born. From the Seven Seas to Bits and Bytes My career started in 1985, the week after I graduated from nautical college. Yes, I was trained as a ship’s mate. I loved…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: When You’re Not Sure If This Career Is For You

    May 8, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Today, we’re talking to Sylvia Fronczak. Sylvia is a software developer that has worked in various industries with various software methodologies. She’s currently focused on design practices that the whole team can own, understand, and evolve over time. Wondering if a career in programming is right for you? Read Sylvia’s advice below. Basic Logistics: Stack? How long have you been doing it? Most of my career has involved Java in some shape or form. Coming in a distant second place is…

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Peter Morlion on Legacy Code & Bird’s Eye Views

    March 27, 2020 /

    Today, we’re starting a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Our first interview is with Peter Morlion. Peter is a passionate programmer that helps people and companies improve the quality of their code, especially in legacy codebases. He firmly believes that industry best practices are invaluable when working towards this goal, and his specialties include TDD, DI, and SOLID principles. Let’s hear what he has to share! Let’s start with some basic logistics. Which stack do you work in? How long have you been doing it? I started out my career in 2007…

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