Career Focus Interview with a Senior Python Developer

Today as my guest I am hosting Anton Delgado, who currently works as a Senior Python Developer and before spent 7 years for Big 4 firm. I will discuss with him how he made the transition from Audit to Consulting and finally Software Development. In our conversation we discussed how you can always continue learning thereby developing new skills, asking the tough questions of whether you want to continue the career track you started after university, how technology is changing and impacting the world around us and many other interesting topics.Bookmark: 0:00 - 4:25 Introductions4:25 - 8:10 University overall and 1st Career Choice8:10 - 11:45 Big 4 Experience and a passion for programming emerges11:45 - 18:05 Expectations and how your career will evolve over time18:05 - 25:09 Day to day work in Big 4 and how the transition to programming happened25:09 - 37:21 Working styles discussion and how to manage people37:21 - 51:23 Technology discussion on development and capabilities (and how the financial world runs on Excel)51:24 - 53:54 Hobbies53:54 -54:54 10 years in the future54:54 – 56:54 Top 3 Apps56:55 – 59:20 Advice and final commentsNote: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in no way reflect the views of any organization, company, or institution.