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MJS 040: Kitson Kelly

Guests :

Kitson Kelly

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Dec 21, 2017

Duration : 48 Minutes

Show Notes

Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Kitson Kelly

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kitson Kelly. Kitson is a return guest, previously on JavaScript Jabber 277. Kitson is the CTO at SitePen, and has been working and maintaining Dojo 2 for the last couple years.

Kitson talks about his journey as a developer. First, sparking his interest with old Atari games and getting his first computer in his early years. Kitson talks about his education background and introduction to computers in high school and hang out with other in the same programming niche. Kitson talks about his challenges not having a degree in computer science, but still very successful as a developer after climbing the corporate latter.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Atari Games and old first computer
Hangout with the computer nerds
Community college
No actual formal computer science degree
Tech Support and Self Taught
Challenges with not degree
Climbing the latter
Troubles even with a degree
Is a degree in computer science really needed?
Experience verses degree
Working with other people is important
Getting into JavaScript and Dojo
What kept you working in JavaScript
How do you get to being CTO and SitePen?
What are you most proud of with the work on Dojo
Contributions
Side Projects - Dojo 2
and much, much more!

Links:

https://github.com/kitsonk
Kistson Kelly
https://www.sitepen.com
https://dojo.io

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