MRS 030: Cameron Dutro
This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Cameron Dutro. Cameron is a return guest from Ruby Rogues. Currently, Cameron works at Lumosity, a company that creates brain games & brain training application for web and mobile. Cameron mention working on the platform team working with internationalization.
Hosted by:
Charles Max Wood
Special Guests:
Cameron Dutro
Show Notes
Panel:
Charles Max Wood
Guest: Cameron Dutro
This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Cameron Dutro. Cameron is a return guest from Ruby Rogues. Currently, Cameron works at Lumosity, a company that creates brain games & brain training application for web and mobile. Cameron mention working on the platform team working with internationalization.
Cameron talks about his journey into programming, starting at the age of 4 and being fascinated an IBM 85XT computer and flight simulator games. Cameron describes is early interactions with programming in elementary and high school. Then moving into a professional field after college at Twitter and eventually at Lumosity. Cameron talks about his next projects and his contributions to the Ruby community.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- How did you get introduced to programming?
- At the age of 4, Cameron was fascinated with computers and games
- In elementary started writing games with Basic and Visual Basic 6
- Wrote a prank program
- In high school moved to C# and.Net
- Windows and PC
- Got a computer science degree
- Work at Flutter and Twitter
- Then joined Lumosity
- 2011 - Twitter as a startup
- Ruby Projects
- Ruby Gem - Arrow Helpers
- Turbo Sprocket Rails 4
- Games at Lumosity
- What are you working on these days?
- Password and Login app
- Pron PDF - TTFunk
- Masters in Computer Science in the works
- Should I get a degree? Advantages? - NO
- Getting a job in tech?
- When you might need a degree - AI, Machine Learning
- and much, much more!
Links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/camerondutro
- https://github.com/camertron
- http://camerondutro.com
- @camertron
- https://www.lumosity.com
- https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/267-rr-internationalization-with-cameron-dutro
- Platform Engineer and Dev Ops Opening at Lumosity!
Picks
Cameron
- The Far Side Comic Strips
- The Fox Trot
- Sunday Comics
- Amazon Lightsail
- Mental Health - Preventing Burnout
Charles
- Recording interviews with speakers at conferences
- Sponsorship for conferences
- Video Recording Kit
- Zoom H6
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