
MAS 039: Yakov Fain
This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Yakov Fain about his business adventures, his publications, Angular, and much more! Yakov is a co-author of two editions of Mannin’s book “Angular Development with TypeScript” as well as a number of other technical books on programming. Yakov works at the IT consultancy Farata Systems. A Java Champion, he has taught multiple classes and workshops on the web and Java-related technologies, presented at international conferences, and published more than a thousand blog posts. Yakov lives in New York City.
Hosted by:
Charles Max Wood

Special Guests:
Yakov Fain

Show Notes
Panel: Charles Max Wood
Guest: Yakov Fain
This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Yakov Fain about his business adventures, his publications, Angular, and much more! Yakov is a co-author of two editions of Mannin’s book “Angular Development with TypeScript” as well as a number of other technical books on programming. Yakov works at the IT consultancy Farata Systems. A Java Champion, he has taught multiple classes and workshops on the web and Java-related technologies, presented at international conferences, and published more than a thousand blog posts. Yakov lives in New York City.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- Episode 185 – past episode with Yakov Fain
- How did you get into programming?
- Yakov was born in Ukraine, went to Russia for studies, back to Ukraine, and then to U.S. in the 90’s.
- Yakov continues to work in programming now.
- JavaScript
- Angular
- Yakov worked as an independent contractor for a while.
- In 2006, that changed for him.
- Yakov has authored a few books – check them out in Amazon!
- Yakov trains enterprises and private clients.
- Typical class is full of Java developers.
- Angular
- Angular team wanted to capitalize on the same name.
- What have you done in Angular?
- Wrote a couple of books.
- Multiple training sessions.
- Multiple conferences.
- Yakov’s blogs.
- Yakov feels that he has contributed to Angular in a unique way.
- What are you working on now?
- Consultanting
- Among other projects.
Links:
- Angular
- FreshBooks
- JavaScript
- Angular JS
- Yakov Fain’s Website
- Yakov Fain’s Blog
- Yakov Fain’s Twitter
- Yakov Fain’s GitHub
- Yakov Fain’s LinkedIn
- Yakov Fain’s Publications
- Yakov Fain’s Medium Account
- Yakov Fain – Sys.con Media
- TypeScript
- Charles’ Blog
Sponsor:
Picks:
Charles
- RubyHack – Charles wants to use his talk (that he was going to use at RubyHack) into an hour video.
- Audio Book
- Podcast
- Charles’ Blog
- If you are interested in a potential job opening – contact Charles about available positions.
Yakov
- Publishing Company has asked him to write another book about TypeScript.
- Blockchain

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