Dev Chats is an interview series where I speak to technology professionals from all walks of life about their job, company and career.
This series is for anyone interested or pursuing a career in technology. If you want to suggest a person you know to be interviewed, please tweet me!
Specials
While I’m taking a break from Dev Chats, please enjoy these specials!
Season Two
For this special edition, I did a live interview with Tim Oliver at the recent Dev World conference in Melbourne, Australia.
I’m Cassidy, I’m an instructor and software engineer based in Seattle, and I work at React Training!
I’m Trisha Gee, I’m a Developer Advocate for JetBrains, I mostly work in the Java community talking about IntelliJ IDEA and the latest versions of Java. Before that, I was a Java developer for about 15 years.
I'm a New York-based developer who spent seven years as an actor for film and television, before transitioning into programming.
My name is April and I am the CEO and founder of Vogue & Code - a platform created to help people with non-traditional backgrounds transition into the tech industry.
I work at a startup called Zola Electric, where we’re focused on providing clean, reliable energy solutions in the world’s most challenging markets.
My name is Mary Thengvall. I’ve been involved in fostering developer communities for 10+ years now.
Hi there! My name is Joe Previte but online I go by JavaScript Joe. I currently work as a Front End Engineer for a company in Scottsdale, AZ.
Hi there! My name is Lauren Lee and my journey to tech was rather unconventional or non-traditional if you will.
Hi! I’m Daniele and I am a Senior Partner Engineer at Twitter. I work in the Data Enterprise Solutions team.
I’m Alex Graul, I’m the Director of UX for CrowdStrike, we’re a cybersecurity firm that helps protect organisations ranging from vast multi-nationals to small NGOs from sophisticated hackers.
My name is Anna Tito I am a Technical Project Lead, Games Engineer and all round Technomage at Hipster Whale in Melbourne, Australia.
Hi, I'm Michelle Glauser. I'm the founder and CEO of Techtonica, a nonprofit that offers local women and non-binary adults with low incomes free tech training with living stipends and job placement.
Hi! I’m Shelley, a game developer based in Melbourne, Australia but originally from New Zealand. My current official title is UI/UX Programmer at League of Geeks.
My name is Ish and I’m an independent app developer from Southern California. I’ve been developing iOS apps since iOS 3.3 in 2010.
I'm Lexa, and I work at Mighty Games in Melbourne. I've been full-time in the games industry for over three years.
I’m Jethro Carr, I specialise in cloud infrastructure architecture and implementation. Some might call that DevOps.
Season One
Hi 😊 My name is Sarah, I'm front-end engineer and I currently work for a fintech startup in Paris.
My name is Ólafur Waage, I am working as a programmer in Malmö, Sweden at Massive Entertainment.
I’m Laura Bell, you might have met me on the internet or at conferences or as part of my work at SafeStack. I’m a security nerd from Auckland, New Zealand.
Hi! I’m Carolyn. I graduated from Tufts university with degrees in Cognitive Science and Computer Science.
I’m Mike Jeffcott. I work at Zendesk in Melbourne, Australia as a Senior Software Engineer in Test.
Hi! I’m Sami and I work at Atlassian — an Australian software company trying to unleash the potential in all teams.
I’m Scott Hanselman from hanselman.com and I currently work at Microsoft on open source .NET and C#
Jess Dodson, system administrator! I play mainly in the Windows space, focusing on Active Directory and (lately) operational security...because someone has to.
I’m Nick and I wear a few hats: I’m the Head of Mobile at Trade Me, I co-founded Improved.by and I started Cocoaheads Wellington and Google Developer Group Wellington.
Posts about Dev Chats
I want to summarise the career advice that came out of the interviews. What stood out? What was repeated? What can you take and use right now to improve your own career?
Hi, my name is Cong and I'm a developer advocate at IBM.