The Accidental Engineer

Leslie Carr and Alyssa Whitwell of Clover Health join us today to discuss techniques for continuing to learn once you’re no longer a junior engineer!

Today Hillel Wayne joined us to discuss TLA+ and software verification methodology:

Noted video game neuroeconomist Ramin Shokrizade came to games from athletics.

Chang She started his career at hedge fund AQR Capital Management before leaving finance to co-found DataPad with his college classmate, Wes McKinney. DataPad was acquired by Cloudera in 2014 and now Chang manages a team within Cloudera.

Today Patrick Wong and Andrew Jarmon, of Glassdoor and Mercer respectively–join us to discuss the origin of their employer’s compensation datasets and some of the analysis that they perform on behalf of their employers and clients.

Kyle Shevlin came to software engineering via ministry.

Bill Karwin’s name precedes himself, as he is among the top 0.01% of StackOverflow users, and the online community perhaps knows him best for his generosity in sharing information about relational databases.

It was only after some hard-learned lessons in the film industry that Daniel Kang made a career change and joined a fellow church-member’s law firm to provide IT services.

Daniel Gerlanc graduated from Williams College and started his career in financial services, just before the 2008 financial crisis hit.

After graduating from Columbia, Mark Weiss started his career as a journalist in New Jersey.

Itamar Turner-Trauring has learned lessons the hard way–he shares those lessons at his blog Code Without Rules.

Aaron Zarraga began his career as a hardware engineer at Amazon in San Jose on the Concept Engineer team.

While Spencer Kline graduated from college with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, he learned Ruby on Rails after graduation.

Kat Gordiienko began her career working full-time as an accountant while completing her senior year of college as an economics major.

Steve Kinney of Denver, CO is Principal Engineer at SendGrid–however that was not always the case!

Ron Maltiel of RMG and Associates joins us to share his wealth of experience on providing legal testimony as an expert on engineering of semiconductors.

Fede Alvarez del Blanco is in his second year of his MBA degree at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Cecilia Silvestre of OSIsoft joins us for a conversation about:

Tom Alcorn of Flux.io joins us for a conversation about:

Jose Moreno, Senior Software Architect at Netflix joined us for a conversation about his post-college career so far.