IT Career Energizer

My guest on today’s show is the founder of Cloudskills.io, a technical advisor, author and a mentor for people ramping up on cloud technologies. He has worked for tech giants Microsoft and Amazon and has founded two consulting companies of his own. And as well as having published four books and creating multiple online courses, he is often seen speaking from the stage at events around the world.

Michal Spacek is a developer who builds breaks and tests web applications.  He has a specific interest in web application security and likes to pass on his knowledge and experience to others, having spoken at more than 100 conferences and events to date. Michal says that he is on a mission to teach web developers why and how to build secure and fast web applications.

Phil’s guest on today’s show is Sarah Withee. She has been programming all of her life, which has turned her into an accomplished polyglot software engineer. Sarah is a well-known conference speaker, mentor and teacher who is also a volunteer Girls Who Code instructor. Sarah Withlee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, teacher and mentor, and hardware and robot tinkerer. She has a passion for technology and has had ever since she wrote her first computer programs in elementary school.

Dave is a Software Developer who has been building web applications since using HTML tables for layout started to go out of style. A background in classical design and computer systems technology has enabled him to roam between the worlds of design and development. Dave hails from Ottawa, Canada where he works remotely for Test Double.

Charity is CEO at honeycomb.io. She is a former systems engineer and manager at Facebook, Parse and Linden Lab always seeming to end up responsible for databases. Charity is also the co-author of O’Reilly’s Database Reliability Engineering and a regular conference speaker.

Jessica Ivins is a user experience (UX) designer and faculty member at Center Centre, the UX design school in Chattanooga, TN, where she prepares students to be industry-ready, junior UX designers. Jessica dedicates much of her time to the UX community. She founded the Chattanooga UX Design Meetup. She publishes UX articles on her blog and on Medium. She also speaks internationally at conferences such as SXSW, Midwest UX, IA Summit, and UX Cambridge (UK).

Ryan Levick is a developer advocate working in Berlin. Ryan joined Microsoft as a result of its acquisition of Wunderlist in 2015. Ryan has spent his career building apps on both the server and client side and exploring a wide range of open source technologies with a particular focus on functional programming. Ryan has a passion for the Rust programming language, which he often writes about on Twitter and on his blog, and speaks about at conferences.

Melissa Perri is a Product Management coach and consultant, and founder & CEO of Produx Labs. She has trained organizations and teams on Product Management best practices and has spoken at more than 30 conferences in 14 different countries. Melissa is also author of “Escaping the Build Trap” as well as launching her own school, Product Institute, in 2016.

Maaret Pyhajarvi is an Engineering Manager for F-Secure leading a team while continuing with hands-on testing and programming. In 2016, Maaret was awarded Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person and she has spoken at events in 25 countries delivering close to 400 sessions. Maaret is also author of two books, Mob Programming Guidebook and Exploratory Testing.

Beau is a technology Strategy Consultant and has been a professional polyglot programmer since 1998. He hosts Astrocasts and is co-host of That Podcast. Beau is an active open-sourcer, creator of Sculpin and helped to create Stack PHP. He is also a serving Core Committee member for the PHP Framework Interoperability Group.

Nader Dabit is a Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services. He specializes in helping teams to build and implement cross-platform applications more efficiently. Nader is also the author of the book “React Native in Action” and host of the “React Native Radio” podcast.

Rhia is a software engineer for a data-driven tech company where she creates backend software applications using C#, .NET, Python, AWS and a variety of other tech. Rhia is an active member of Kansas City Women in Technology and she is passionate about encouraging underrepresented and underexposed communities to take advantage of the opportunities available in tech.

Kyle Shevlin is a front end web developer and software engineer who specializes in JavaScript and React. Kyle is also host of the Second Career Devs podcast where he talks to guests who became software engineers after a previous career.

Sarah is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft where she helps organizations with their Data Centre Transformations. In recent years Sarah has started to focus and specialize in all things Cloud, especially Microsoft Azure. Sarah is also a STEM Ambassador and likes to share her story in the hope that it will inspire the next generation to start a STEM career.

My guest on today’s show is Matt Harrison. Matt is an instructor on Python and Data Science material. He is co-chair of the Utah Python user group and has presented at conferences including PyCon, OSCon and OpenWest. Matt is also an author of a number of books about Python, including the Treading on Python Series.