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MRS 030: Cameron Dutro

Guests :

Cameron Dutro

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Feb 07, 2018

Duration : 39 Minutes

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!

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The Fox Trot
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Amazon Lightsail
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Charles

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Sponsorship for conferences
Video Recording Kit
Zoom H6

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MRS 030: Cameron Dutro

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