Memes, Streams & Software with Cassidy Williams
from Screaming in the Cloud Hosted by Corey Quinn
About Cassidy Cassidy is a Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. She's worked for several other places, including CodePen, Amazon, and Venmo, and she's had the honor of working with various non-profits, including cKeys and Hacker Fund as their Director of Outreach. She's active in the developer community, and one of Glamour Magazine's 35 Women Under 35 Changing the Tech Industry and LinkedIn's Top Professionals 35 & Under. As an avid speaker, Cassidy has participated in several events including the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, TEDx, the United Nations, and dozens of other technical events. She wants to inspire generations of STEM students to be the best they can be, and her favorite quote is from Helen Keller: "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." She loves mechanical keyboards and karaoke. Links: Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cassidoo Newsletter: https://cassidoo.co/newsletter/ Scrimba: https://scrimba.com/teachers/cassidoo Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/user/cassidywilliams/ Skillshare: https://www.skillshare.com/user/cassidoo O’Reilly: https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/6339 Personal website: https://cassidoo.co Twitter: https://twitter.com/cassidoo GitHub: https://github.com/cassidoo CodePen: https://codepen.io/cassidoo/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassidoo
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Cassidy Williams is the principal developer experience engineer at Netlify, an advisor at Polywork, and the co-founder and chief product officer of Cosynd, Inc. Prior to these positions, she worked as an instructor and senior engineer at React Training, director of outreach at cKeys, a senior software engineer at CodePen, head of developer voice programs at Amazon, and a software engineer at Venmo, among other positions. Join Corey and Cassidy as they talk about what Netlify is and what a developer experience engineer does, how JavaScript started off as a toy language and why everything that can be built with JavaScript will be moving forward, the benefits of using low-code development tools, how discovering TikTok helped Cassidy drum up a major following on social media, how Cassidy's humor is never directed at people or organizations and why that's the case, the differences between recording a podcast and livestreaming on Twitch from the speaker's point of view, and more.
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