Dean Radcliffe talks about how he got into programming early in life and the influences that brought him to writing code. He also then explains how he got into programming again in college and his internship at a company that did livestreaming of sports and concerts. He nearly didn't graduate. He finished his degree and then went on to write Ruby and later got deep into JavaScript.
Kevin Kreuzer, a freelance front end engineer from Switzerland shares his developer’s journey in this episode of the My JavaScript Story. Kevin is also a Google Developer expert, who loves JavaScript, Angular etc and as such writes a lot of blog posts and maintains some open source libraries. And when he is not engrossed in the tech world, he is out snowboarding or playing soccer.
Raúl Jiménez runs a small consultancy focused on Angular out of Barcelona Spain. Raul got into programing in High School. He was working on the equivalent of a USA based Associates Degree. He had a computer when he was 5 and got into copy/paste programming on the Spectrum computer. He started writing on his own at 16. He started with TurboPascal and then got into other languages before graduating to Angular and JavaScript.
Loiane Groner is an Angular developer from Brazil currently living the USA. She started out working in Java and has worked in Java for nearly 14 years before moving over to Angular. She did an episode on Adventures in Angular about writing documentation in Portuguese.
Andrew Evans is a history major turned designer turned developer. His journey leads through doing development in Java, getting and MBA, and eventually picking up Angular and working at Capital One.
In this week's episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Farzad Yousefzadehr, who was a guest on the React Round Up show. As a Senior Software Engineer, Farzad has the cool job of designing and refactoring existing games at Epic Games. He currently lives in Helsinki, Finland, with his lovely wife and cat.
Kay Plößer is an German developer who does front-end and mobile development with React. He primarily focuses on developer relations and will be teaching at a University soon. He got started in programming doing basic scripting and game mods to buy game weapons when the game started. He also build IRC bots and programs that ran in IRC. We dive into his journey through development into React and JavaScript.
Håkon Krogh is a Norweigan developer who focuses on web performance. We start out discussing working from home in the current pandemic. His current company works in Product Information Management. It's a headless ecommerce system. We dive into his experience learning learning to build applications and learning JavaScript and leading a team.
Varya is an expert in design systems. She talks about the process of working in and building design systems. She learned basic Pascal at school. She did programming exercises on paper. She then got into building web pages for groups she was a part of. She then picked up PHP and went professional at that point. On the front-end, she began picking up JavaScript and worked using Yandex's internal framework. Follow here story through the rest of the podcast.
Josh Ponelat is Software Architect at SmartBear working on Swagger and OpenAPI. He's from South Africa. Josh's father is a programmer and was heavily influenced by his father. He started with ANSI-C and hacking on shells. He studied graphic design in school. He got back into programming in PHP and MySQL and wound up transitioning to JavaScript.
Paige Niedringhaus started her career as a Digital Marketer before making the move to becoming a software developer at the Home Depot. She current works with React and Node building internal apps for them. This episode discusses the ins and outs of making that transition in a semi-recent world and community.
Daniel Caldas is a Portuguese developer working and living in Singapore. He learned to code in high school programming in Pascal. He moved up to the university and that's where he encountered JavaScript. He wound up doing a bunch of design work, static websites, and jQuery. He explains his journey and learning methods leading to a job working for Zendesk on their CRM.