Day as a Dev

Kevin Lesht•www.dayasadev.com

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Day as a Dev is a podcast hosted by Kevin Lesht. Each episode, developers share their stories, and offer up tips, tricks, habits, and routines. From the daily workings of a given job, to career progression, team dynamics, and so much more. Listen in for a practical look at life in the tech industry.

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Episodes

Derek Prior - Empathetic Management

Show Description Derek Prior is an engineering manager at GitHub. Working to improve developer productivity, he and the team have delivered such hits as: Suggested Changes, Free Private Repos, Community Contributors, and GitHub Sponsors. Prior to that, Derek was a Development Director at thoughtbot, and co-host of The Bike Shed podcast. The Bike Shed has got to be one of my favorite podcasts out there, and I was super excited at the opportunity of catching up with Derek. Our conversation spanned...

Dec 12, 2019•52 min•Ep. 7

Tom McHenry - Systemized Creativity (Part Two)

Show Description This episode features part two of my conversation with Tom McHenry. If you're just joining the show: Tom McHenry didn't begin his career as a software engineer. In fact, after completing post graduate degrees in english literature, and fiction, and working as a journalist and web editor, it wasn't until a life changing event, that Tom entered a bootcamp to pursue a career in tech. Outside of working as an engineer, Tom is an accomplished cartoonist, video game designer, marathon...

Nov 21, 2019•46 min•Ep. 6

Tom McHenry - Systemized Creativity

Show Description Tom McHenry didn't begin his career as a software engineer. In fact, after completing post graduate degrees in english literature, and fiction, and working as a journalist and web editor, it wasn't until a life changing event, that Tom entered a bootcamp to pursue a career in tech. Outside of working as an engineer, Tom is an accomplished cartoonist, video game designer, marathon runner, weightlifter, husband, and now guest of the show. We had such a fantastic conversation, that...

Nov 14, 2019•55 min•Ep. 5

Jessica Kerr - Generativity

Show Description Jessica Kerr is a developer of development systems. She works remotely from St. Louis, for Atomist, and when not engineering automation infrastructure, Jess is a frequent panelist on the Greater Than Code podcast, conference speaker, and writer. Her mission is to find and share new ways to think about code, people, and symmathesies of code-and-people. Symmathesy. That was a new word for me, and in essence, it describes: a learning system made of learning parts. We unpack that id...

Nov 07, 2019•40 min•Ep. 4

Jem Hilton - Up the Stack

Show Description Jem Hilton is a former philosophy instructor, turned software developer, and offers a story all the way up the stack. From coding bootcamp, through years in the Chicago startup world, to the Pacific Northwest, Jem's made deliberate choices throughout his career, and is now managing a team of engineers at Leafly, the largest cannabis website in the world. On the show, we detail tactics and strategies for forwarding a career. From landing a job in tech, through negotiating an offe...

Oct 31, 2019•46 min•Ep. 3

Cassandra Goodby - Hackathon and Hustle

Show Description Cassandra Goodby is a designer and developer, focused on everything from user experience design through front end development. She's pursuing a Master of Science in Creative Technologies and Design at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science. Cassandra is also a Professional Research Experience Program Fellow for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the organizer of T9 Hacks, a hackathon focused on the inclusion of women an...

Oct 24, 2019•49 min•Ep. 2

Nina Baliga - Cultures of Inclusion

Show Description Nina Baliga believes that problems can be solved for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. She has worked in both non- and for-profit organizations for nearly twenty years, bridging between the needs of sustainable businesses and the public good. She hopes to build a foundation for a stronger and more diverse tech community, and is the CEO, and Co-Founder, of <div>ersity, an online platform where companies can highlight what they're doing to create inclusive environ...

Oct 17, 2019•39 min•Ep. 1

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