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MAS 040: Victor Savkin

Guests :

Victor Savkin

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Jun 13, 2018

Duration : 45 Minutes

Show Notes

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Victor Savkin

This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Victor Savkin about his business Narwhal Technologies. In addition, they discuss Angular, past and current business projects, and their picks. Victor is a co-founder of nrwl.io, providing Angular consulting to enterprise teams. He was previously on the Angular core team at Google, and built the dependency injection, change detection, forms and router modules.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Victor’s background.
Two of Victor’s past episodes on the “My Angular Story:”
- Episode 42
- Episode 123
When and how did you get into programming?
- Back when Victor was in Russia and playing games.
- This brought him to the idea that “I could build my own game” when he was a teenager.
Programming is hard and difficult, but also fun and enjoying.
- There is a creative side to this.
- State of flow.
How did you go from creating games with Flash to Angular?
- Eventually ended up using Angular.
- Victor prefers to use on the backend.
It’s interesting to see how things have changed, such as Data Flow and Business Logic. In what ways do you think it has improved?
Charles first got into programming it was Rails.
- JavaScript sprinkles
- Ember into Angular
Why does this feel much harder – because we are solving much more complicated issues.
- Look at the tools we have today.
- Trello
How did you get into Angular 14?
- Dart
What contributions do you feel that you have made on the Angular team?
- Angular Dart
In writing Angular apps, Charles is curious, how is it different writing the framework vs. an app within the framework?
What made you and Jeff leave Google and go start Narwhal Technologies (nrwl.io)?
- I felt like I could provide more value.
What things have Narwhal been contributing to the community?
What are you working on now?
- NX
Personal life
- Wedding in August and buying a home for Victor.

Links:

Sponsor:

Digital Ocean

Picks:

Charles

Audio Books:
- “The Big Leap” by Gay Hendricks
- “The Whole-Brain Child” by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Take a minute to be human through life’s different experiences.

Victor

Self-Help Books
They Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
Go see your doctor first before you buy equipment!
Logitech Wireless Trackball
Vertical Mouse

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