Software Developers Journey

In this episode I talk to Adrian Bolboaca. Adrian is a programmer, trainer and a coach. His passion is helping teams produce high quality software. Adrian is a supporter of Deliberate Practice, experiments, and experiental learning. In 2016 he published a book about hosting and facilitating a coderetreat, a one-day deliberate practice concept for programming. We touched on the topics of learning t...

In this episode, I talk with Steven Schwenke. Steven is a software craftsman, mentor and mentee aus Braunschweig in Germany. Together we discussed CS-degrees, mentoring, communication, hard- and soft-skills, motivation, purpose and much more. Here are the links of the show: http://www.stevenschwenke.de https://stevenschwenke.de/events http://twitter.com/stevenschwenke Credits Music Something Elate...

In this episode I talked to Arnaud Porterie. Arnaud is VP of Engineering at Vente Privée, a french eCommerce Business. Previously, he managed the open-source group at Docker, which radically changed his views on managing software development at scale. Together, we spoke about the parallel between managing engineering teams and building communities. We touched on open source software and culture, a...

Jessica's adventures include public speaking, advocating for functional programming and systems thinking at software conferences around the world, but also keeping two children alive, and podcasting on "Greater Than Code." We touched on her introduction to public speaking. We talked about balancing family life and traveling for work. We transitioned into networking and the power of...

In this episode, I interviewed Anne Cahalan. Anne is an iOS developer at Detroit Labs, where she is constantly delighted by the niftiness of Swift. Anne told us her story. From the Bootcamp she went to and the apprenticeship program she followed, up to her "moving out" of "Junior-Developerness" and all its implications. We finally touched on the topic of mid-career development,...

In this episode, I talk to Siavash "Sia" Ghassemi, software achitect and developer. He is a Microsoft Azure and Xamarin expert. We discussed how he discovered his passion for software development and how he came to becoming the well know speaker and prolific developer he now is. We touched on the career segways that he lived through and how it helped him later in his life. We finally tou...

In this episode I talk with Daniel Marbach, software engineer, architect, evangelist, family man, father, public speaker and so much more. We touched on how his first failure shaped his career and made him much stronger. We discussed the remote-ness of his current company and how this makes them a very "particular" (pun intended) company. We talked about mentoring and how it helps Daniel...

The guest this week is Laura Savino. Laura is a freelance iOS developer whose non-tech passions include foreign languages and teaching. We started talking about languages, how we learn them, and how kids books could help us there. We diverged toward public speaking and how you structure a talk. We finally touched on being on stage, playing music and how this relates to public speaking. Note: Skype...

In this episode I talk to Rob Napier. Rob has been a developer for a few decades and now earns his living developing for iOS. We touched on our respective interviewing processes, asking questions, being inclusive, reflecting on your own way of doing etc. We also discussed about being a "Conditional Breakpoint" and how a music band might approach including newcomers. We finally touched on...

In this episode I talk to David Tanzer. David is a Freelancer based in Linz, Austria. We talked about what David does for a living. We touched on the SOLID principles and the 4 rules of simple design. We continued talking about the SoCraTes conference and the need for technical coaching beside agile coaching. Here are the links of the show: http://twitter.com/dtanzer http://www.davidtanzer.net htt...

In this episode I talk to Ivo Vutov, Consultant Developer for Microsoft in Germany. Ivo shares with us how he started to code, then how he came to working with Microsoft through the Student Partner Program and how he evolved from there. We touched on the new offices of Microsoft in Munich and the effects this revamp had on the teamwork. We spoke about remote work, diversity and accessibility. We f...

In this episode I talk to Manuela Rink about her career path. Manu has taken a few roles over her still short career and ended up mixing two worlds that I personally never thought could really match. Let's cut to the chase, Manu is an iOS freak (in a good way ;) ), who is also a developer evangelist at Microsoft. We go over her career, her place at Microsoft and the role of an evangelist. And...

In this episode I talk to Kevin Keller about his life as a Digital Nomad. Kevin has been living "on the run" sind 2014, spread between Tbilisi(Georgia), the Philippines, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, Morocco and France (to name only a few), all while working for his company Grumpy Goat Studio. He tells us all about this lifestyle, a couple tips and tricks to get started and devises on remot...

In this episode, I talked to Damien Beaufils, a french software craftsman working in Paris. Damien shared the experience he made on his current project ; how he helped his team focus on quality to improve the whole software. We talked about the different kind of tests, the test pyramid and Damien even shared a very good recipe on how to improve test quality in a legacy or project lacking tests. No...

A special podcast with 3 guests, Rui Carvalho, Peter Even and Maxime Sanglan, the organizers of the NCrafts conference in Paris. In this episode, we doubled back on the origins of this craftsmanship conference, its birth in the .NET space and growth toward a language agnostic craftsmanship conference up to the third edition which happened this year. We diverged onto how to get people into craftsma...

In this interview with J.B. Rainsberger, we drilled down into what it means to truly be agile. We devised on what it means to be agile for corporations, startups and teams alike and how to progress when you are stuck. We will definitely have to record another interview to focus more on the single individual side of it. We ended on a happy note about... happiness: don't forget that you're...

In this episode, I talk to Jens Schauder about his experience working on Open Source Projects. Jens is (kind of) participating to the JUnit5 Development and has - among many others - one bigger OSS project called "Degraph". We talked about JUnit5, Degraph, OpenSource, Github, Architecture among many other things... I hope you'll love this interview! Here are the links of the show: h...

In this episode, I talk to Nicole Rauch, who among other things created the Socrates Conference. I wanted to ask her about the Journeyman-Tour she did a couple years ago. She shares her insights and the things she discovered while working with different developers for short periods of time. Here are the links of the show: https://twitter.com/nicolerauch  http://nicole-rauch.de https://www.socrates...

In this episode, I talk to former colleagues of mine Agata Bres and Adam Nowakowski, who just came back from a 4 months backpacking trip to South-America. Beside goofing around, we discuss the impact such a break can have on our rat-raced lives and high-pace corporate environments. Here are the links of the show: http://twitter.com/breskapl http://twitter.com/adamaszczos Credits Music Something El...

A podcast talking to Louise Elliott about dealing with people, both as a team member and as a manager. Here are the links of the show: http://twitter.com/ivanaterrorbull https://ivanaterrorbull.wordpress.com Credits Music Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0) Your host Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany wh...

A podcast where we talk about caring, in every sense of the word. Here are the links of the show: http://squeakyvessel.com https://twitter.com/benjamin http://topconf.com/linz-2016/speaker/benjamin-reitzammer https://speakerdeck.com/benjamin https://www.vaamo.de https://www.socrates-conference.de Credits Music Something Elated by Broke For Free (CC BY 3.0) Your host Software Developer‘s Journey is...

A podcast where we talk - among many other things - about Amitai's Story, about mentoring, teams, seniority, buying your freedom to do what you like, Amitai's podcast "agile in 3 minutes" and the role music plays in his life. Here are the links of the show: Amitai's Homepage http://www.schmonz.com Amitai's Podcast "Agile In 3 Minutes" www.agilein3minut.es  &...