All Episodes

#300 Celebrating a Journey of Connection, Diversity, and Discovery

#299 John Chan is building on his learning superpower

#298 Denzil Eden experimented toward AI success

#297 Brit Myers from Math Major to DevOps & Leadership

#296 Katherine Lewis from teaching to lifelong learning at LinkedIn

#295 Elise Carmichael has a challenges-driven career

#294 Erik Gross from the Navy to seeing life as a collaborative exercise

#293 Joshua Duffney over-pivoted to success

#292 Bryan Clayton rolled up his sleeves to code it himself

#291 Mark Herschberg from ballroom dancing to managing information flow

#290 Dave Van Beekum brings various talents together to create value

#289 Sneha Inguva from feeling like an imposter all the way to Netflix

#288 Steven Schkolne found his balance between art, tech and business

#287 William Adams is a Silicon Valley legend, a one man coding machine, and an ally

#286 Brian Childress from geospatial data to fractional CTO

#284 Valarie Regas from judoka & stay-at-home mum to renowned dev advocate

#283 Moriel Schottlender from astronomy and physics to architecting Wikipedia

#282 Chris Simon from electrical engineer to CTO coach

#281 Cecelia Martinez was a journalist and finance expert missing a jolt of excitation

#280 Aral Balkan tackling the big world with the Small Web

#279 Sophie Obomighie chooses to do hard things the hard way

#278 Coleen Shane is a bad-cop security-expert with a tinfoil hat

#277 Jodie Burchell from dinos to psychology to data science

#276 Alexandra Spalato from Actress & pharmacist to business owner & dev

#275 Cheuk Ting Ho from playing god to living with communities

#274 Aleksandra Sikora is a serial language learner and open source maintainer

#273 Ori Keren from passionate dev to having an impact with LinearB

#272 Anna Sala Mercade from graphic design to saying yes to development

#271 Una Kravets joining bleeding edge design and coding at Google

#270 Tejas Kumar between hemophilia, learning and digging deeper

#269 Lilly Chen from high-school dropout to monk and tech-founder

#268 Felienne Hermans rethinking how to teach kids to program with Hedy

#267 Steve Upton from adversarial relationships with devs to QA in high performing teams

#266 Cory O'Daniel from a suit and a tie to one startup after the other

#265 Mirjam Aulbach accountant, dog trainer, and senior engineer

#264 Nnenna Ndukwe driven by curiosity from a tanning salon to dev advocacy

#263 Phil Alves maker of product-developer teams

#262 Chris Zimmerman and his story of the Sucker Punch game studio

#261 Chelsea Troy from ~lacking intellectual firepower~ to rocking at Mozilla

#260 Sev Huffmann between development at Microsoft and Deaf Culture

#259 Larysa Visengeriyeva from mind scripts and biases to MLOps

#258 Lisa Crispin on a journey to define what quality means

#257 Emmanuel Gaillot componist, psychotherapist, humanist & programmer

#256 Krisztina Hirth ran away from a boring life

#255 Tomas Petricek always looking under the covers

#254 Marjorie Aubert from nurturing plants to mob programming

#253 Mathias Verraes from music to languages and models

#252 Diana Montalion from a bookstore to systems thinking

#251 Aida Manna went in circles between QA and development

#250 Bobbi Towers learned to distrust eloquent speakers

#249 Claude Jones became the practical leadership guy

#248 Limor Mekaiten embraced engineering management and mentoring

#247 Brandon Campbell-Kearns searched for his identity

#246 Bekah Hawrot Weigel found the power of communities

#245 Matthew McClure wanted to build tools for developers

#244 Meshi Yona is a cyber analyst who wanted to try new things

#243 Nikhil Nandagopal cares deeply about the problems we solve

#242 Dean Tribble between innovation and reinventing the wheel

#241 Danny Preussler a GDE who likes having impact

#240 Chris Ferdinandi from HR professional to vanillajs-guy

#239 Abhimanyu Saxena from novice CS undergrad to entrepreneur

#238 Jake Lumetta started and failed many times

#237 Laila Bougria is learning, growing and having fun

#236 Hannah Olukoye is a GDE and an Engineering manager

#235 Jean-Philippe LeBlanc from truck driver to engineering organisations builder

#234 Dustin DeVries aligning career and life phases

#233 Oshri Cohen self taught fractional CTO

#232 Kevin Trethewey on his extreme programming journey

#231 Amy Wallhermfechtel went from hippie, teacher and historian to software engineer

#230 Melanie Sumner from psychology and the Navy to webdev and accessibility

#229 Bill Boulden from ideas to product as a fractional CTO

#228 Jennifer Wong was not impressed by the civil engineering pace

#227 Katerina Trajchevska founded her remote workplace

#226 Jonah Andersson's successful jump from the Philippines to Sweden

#225 Max Howell from chemistry to homebrew and tea

#224 Grant Glidewell from substance abuse counselor to web dev

#223 Adi Polak continuous learner in the big-data space

#222 Marcy Sutton photo journalist turned web dev and accessibility expert

#221 Sergey Gorbunov wanted to tackle hard problems

#220 Tanya Janca from dev to PenTester to purple security expert

#219 Stephanie Eckles forces herself to push projects out the door

#218 Christina Hastenrath came to development via forensics and biotech

#217 Paul McBride from RAF soldier to self-taught web developer

#216 Shruti Kapoor wanted a home on the internet

#215 Michael -Geepaw- Hill is a joyful street-geek

#214 Michael Chan has an unfair advantage - he is a mule!

#213 Wynn Netherland is a man of APIs and wrappers

#212 Erin Fox is an introvert who loves speaking at conferences

#211 Christos Matskas dreamt of becoming a hacker

#210 Glaucia Lemos reached her dream of working in tech

#209 Ingrid Epure is a self defined generalist

#208 Arpit Mohan is running on builder's high

#207 Maia Grotepass embraced a world of puzzles

#206 Carl Alexander has a lifelong hate for coding interviews

#205 Eve Porcello revolves around teaching

#204 Scott Ford is a software mender

#203 Jess Archer found her people in the Laravel community

#202 Swizec Teller wanted to work on silicon valley blockbusters

#201 Wajahat Karim finally came to love Android

#200 It's a Milestone

#199 Carl Franklin is looking beyond what he can do

#198 Laura González slowly YOLOed her way to success

#197 Holden Karau wanted to change something in the world

#196 Aran Khanna wanted a shorter feedback loop

#195 Dagna Bieda wanted to create the future

#194 Ségolène Alquier wanted to learn that coding magic

#193 Nicolas Carlo enabler of human connections

#192 Julianna Lamb is running headfirst into challenges

#191 Carly Richmond from individual contributor to MAMAger and back

#190 Laurie Barth learns and teaches with use-cases instead of jargon

#189 Rich Haines went from screenplays to technical writing

#188 Luce Carter was saved by software development

#187 Michael Levan learned to detect when he is not learning anymore

#186 Suze Shardlow from marketing and the police to simply creating

#185 Scott Spence from VBA Analyst to webdev

#184 Sydney Lai web3 code-switching sociologist

#183 Karl Hughes from mechanical engineering to self taught dev, technical writer and CEO

It's the end of season 4 as we know it!

#182 Tom Cools and how he fell in love with Jaba

#181 Madison Kanna from college dropout to successful self-taught UI-Engineer

#180 April Speight in her own lane from design to advocacy

#179 Adrian Colyer went from developer to living under constant jet lag and back

#178 Aviv Ben-Yosef is a tech leader who went through a lifelong experience pressure cooker

#177 Zachary Powell is a freelancer who found out that working in an office is not a bad thing

#176 Sebastien Stormacq was a developer advocate before the term even existed

#175 Christina Holland tried to avoid software development by going into biotech and animation

#174 Rotem Zifroni is the future founder of a social startup

#173 Susan Potter from distributed systems to functional verification

#172 Steve Gordon is the world's most honest interviewee

#171 Emma Bostian is a software engineer at Spotify and an asynchronous mentor

#170 Kadi Kraman doesn't want to be anyone's boss

#169 Amarachi Amaechi went from accounting to writing about her developer career

#168 Shannon Kendall quit acting to follow a new creative dream

#167 Jenn Creighton went from paralegal to developing for Netflix

#166 Helen Scott found her itch in technical writing and content creation

#165 Grace Jansen on bees and reactive systems

#164 Sandra Ahlgrimm pushed the boundaries

#163 Layla Porter was led to coding by her horse riding and personal coaching business

#162 Mark Noonan from roadie to accessibility problem solver

#161 Russ Miles is now a professional chaos monkeys tamer

#160 Amir Sadoughi built his career on curiosity

#159 Ryan Hamblin is an experiential learner

#158 Kara Luton went from ballet and public relations to developer

#157 Shahid Iqbal from drug design to software development

#156 Clare Sudbery surfing on her own imposter syndrome

#155 Sandra Parsick from QA-Engineer to Java-Champion

#154 Anand Safi is setting people up for success

#153 Clifford Agius is a developer flying a Boeing 787 for fun

#152 Shawn Wang from the "fine I'll do it myself" team

#151 Chris Coyier from ceramics to CSS-Tricks and CodePen

#150 Ryan Bergman loves terrible code

#149 Leticia Portella started with MATHLABianesque Python

#148 Bryan Beecham cares about people

#147 Caitlyn Greffly rationalized her way into development

#146 Miguel Piedrafita is a 19 years old indie maker

#145 Darko Meszaros the utilitarian developer

#144 How to not find a problem? Format experiment: "Tales of DevJourney"

#143 Bert Jan Schrijver took his career into his own hands

#142 Lior Bar Yosef is a network analyst in a world of puzzles

#141 Freya Holmér a level-designer turned game-developer

#140 Matt Biilmann discovered the JAMStack

#139 Mark Rendle is a programmer turned comedian turned programmer

#138 Kristy-Leigh Minehan almost burned seeking a crypto highscore

#137 Nadia Zhuk from 0 to crossing the Rubycon

#136 Dotan Nahum on building your own toolbox

#135 Emily Robinson making sense of data science for us

#134 Amiti Uttarwar is a hands-on Bitcoin-core tinkerer

#133 Dennis Traub failed his way to success

#132 Evangelina Ferreira challenges you to take every opportunity

How to end the 3rd season of DevJourney?

#131 Wesley Faulkner is a native developer advocate

#130 Natalia Tepluhina a DBA turned Vue.js-expert at Gitlab

#129 Jackie Luo is interested in the impact of tech on society

#128 Paula Gearon was searching for machines that can think

#127 Emmanuel Bernard fell into open-source

#126 Ev Haus: animator, programmer, manager

#125 Alice Goldfuss is digging deeper

Special Episode - US Election Day 2020

#124 Edidiong Asikpo put herself out there

#123 Patrick Leblanc didn't want to ruin his passion

#122 Ines Montani brought linguistic and computers together

#121 Kathryn Erickson on leadership and asking for help

#120 Sumana Harihareswara is an open-source fairy

#119 Virginia Harrison is following her gaming dream

#118 Erik Rasmussen connects the dots of his career

#117 Roopak Venkatakrishnan's career algorithm

#116 Scott Tolinski from allrounder to allrounder

#115 Aimee Knight applied the discipline of figure-skating to DevOps and architecture

#114 Jamon Holmgren made his own independent way

#113 Brendan O'Leary from healthcare to Gitlab

#112 Dan Moore from sci-fi to devrel

#111 Sam Julien from financial adviser to developer advocate

#110 Jerome Hardaway is the definition of willpower

#109 Coraline Ada Ehmke lives up to her values

#108 Cassidy Williams loves developer experience

#107 Josh Long found his place in the world as a developer advocate with the Spring team

#106 Kyle Shevlin from pastor to programmer

#105 Sara Vieira is opinionated per design

#104 Jason Lengstorf successfully bet on himself for his career

#103 Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back

#102 Jen Luker is a relentless accessibility advocate

#101 Jeff Haynie on thinking under pressure, contracting and entrepreneurship

#100 Tim Bourguignon is a guest on his own show

#99 Anjana Vakil mastered her debilitating curiosity

#98 Doug Arcuri is curious & learning, always!

#97 Joe Drumgoole's life as a great software developer NPC

#96 Dylan Beattie THE Rockstar Programmer

#95 Lara Martin learned her way from biologist to Flutter GDE

#94 Michael Kennedy almost learned Python in the 90s

#93 Guilherme Rambo found his joy in coding for Mac/iOS

#92 Tracy Lee is having fun all the way

#91 Harald Reingruber is embarking on a coding tour

#90 Khaled Souf learned the value of creating value

#89 Hadelin de Ponteves is a data scientist and an entrepreneur

#88 Lydia Hallie is a web dev following her passion

#87 Denise Gosnell is working at the bleeding edge of data science

#86 Jamison Dance implores you to be nice to other people

#85 Shedrack Akintayo a web developer from Nigeria

#84 Molly Struve, an aerospace engineer trading in SRE

#83 Reuven Lerner had his career all planned out?

#82 Pariss -Athena- Chandler learns jumping in with both feet first

Season 2 Finale

#81 Richard Campbell is simply adding value

#80 Joseph Young, code & music composer and conductor

#79 Ted Young & Java, a love story?

#78 Bubunyo Nyavor is the mentor he never had

#77 Dave Smith swings the pendulum

#76 Wes Bos was born a teacher

#75 David Hirschfeld had a long, eventful career (sofar)

#74 Kemdi Ebi is thriving on products

#73 Kai König about simplicity and aesthetics

#72 Katrina Owen, one little piece at a time

#How to help me grow DevJourney?

#71 Irwin Williams found his perfect spot

#70 Jeeva Nadarajah's life of serendipity

#69 Aisha Blake's DevJourney should be a musical

#68 Greg Koberger finally built his one dream

#67 Kapunahele Wong's kindness as a practice

#66 Rob Kendal is not afraid to try

#65 Woody Zuill brings people together who should be working together

#64 Guillermo Rauch learned with communities

#63 Stephanie Hurlburt encourages us to be social techies

#62 How Llewellyn Falco brought the joy of programming back in his life

#61 Elissa Shevinsky felt into Security

#60 Trisha Gee owns her career

#59 Julie Moronuki a linguist turned Haskell expert

#58 Robby Russell succeeds being selfless

#57 Adam Barr roots for more humility

#56 Magnus Stahre is not supposed to know it all, and neither are we!

#55 Yehuda Katz on how framework design influences communities

#54 Dave Rael was chosen by the .NET technology stack, not the other way around

#53 Brian Pontarelli thinks like a customer

#52 Charity Majors encourages us to strive, going back and forth between roles

#51 Ben Orenstein advises us not to worry too much

#50 Saron Yitbarek, founder of CodeNewbie, celebrates the power of code and communities

#49 Ali Spittel works at the crossroads of development, teaching and communities

#48 Shawn Wildermuth encourages us to make decisions no matter what

#47 Erik St. Martin is comfortable with the struggle

#46 Barry Dorrans is a curmudgeon telling us it is OK to be wrong

#45 April Wensel encourages us to get in touch with our core values

#44 Jeremy Likness became a developer through the backdoor and loved it

#43 Patrick Kua on being a consultant, a tech lead, a CTO and helping people grow

#42 Charlie Gerard is learning by building (MANY) projects on the side

#41 Simon Harrer on strong opinions loosely held

#40 Ignacio Anaya on discovering your valuable skills

#39 Harry Roberts and his journey toward freelancing

#38 Ryan Latta from one extreme to the next

#37.5 Special Episode on what we learned in 2018

#37 Darren Hoehna, "That Programming Guy", on getting experience no matter what!

#36 Rob Allen on persuasion instead of authority

#35 Emily Bache on maximizing career for family, hobbies and making a difference in the world

#34 Richard Rodger on software development as a resource allocation problem

#33 Markus Harrer on being open for new things

#32 Katharine Jarmul on being driven & focused on what you can do

#31 Mario Rogic on absorbing and communicating as much as you can

#30 Adrian Bolboaca on choosing the appropriate tool for the job at hand

#29 Steven Schwenke on soft skills that one cannot "simply download"

#28 Arnaud Porterie on putting the right people together in the right context to see the right things happen

#27 Jessica Kerr on public speaking, networking and the problems of mentoring

#26 Anne Cahalan on moving out of Junior-Developerness

#25 Sia Ghassemi on segways that lead exactly where you needed to be

#24 Daniel Marbach on failure, remoteness and mentoring

#23 Laura Savino on languages and public speaking

#22 Rob Napier on interviewing and asking questions

#21 David Tanzer on craftmanship and the need for coaching

#20 Ivo Vutov on growing into Microsoft as a student partner

#19 Manuela Rink on being an iOS developer evangelist at Microsoft

#18 Kevin Keller on living the digital nomad way of life

#16 Damien Beaufils on the test pyramide

#15 NCrafts Organizers Rui Carvalho, Maxime Sanglan & Peter Even on organizing a software conference

#13 JB Rainsberger on what it means to truly be agile

#12 Jens Schauder on open-source software development

#11 Nicole Rauch on the coding tour to learn and grow

#10 Agata Bres & Adam Nowakowski on taking a break

#8 Louise Elliott on dealing with people

#7 Benjamin Reitzammer on caring, in every sense of the word

#5 Amitai Schleier on buying your freedom to do what you like