Episode description
Episode description
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- Corey and Linda talk about Tiktok and the online developer community (1:18)
- Linda talks about what prompted her to want to work at AWS (5:29)
- Linda discusses navigating the change from just being part of the developer community to being an employee of AWS (10:37)
- Linda talks about moving AWS more in the direction of short form content, and Corey and Linda talk about the Tiktok algorithm (15:56)
- Linda talks about the potential struggle of going from short form to long form content (25:21)
About Linda
Linda Vivah is a Site Reliability Engineer for a major media organization in NYC, a tech content creator, an AWS community builder member, a part-time wedding singer, and the founder of a STEM jewelry shop called Coding Crystals. At the time of this recording she was about to join AWS in her current position as a Developer Advocate.
Linda had an untraditional journey into tech. She was a Philosophy major in college and began her career in journalism. In 2015, she quit her tv job to attend The Flatiron School, a full stack web development immersive program in NYC. She worked as a full-stack developer building web applications for 5 years before shifting into SRE to work on the cloud end internally.
Throughout the years, she’s created tech content on platforms like TikTok & Instagram and believes that sometimes the best way to learn is to teach.
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