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#32: ”What’s the weird looking stuff on the screen?” with Robert Murray of TaskRabbit | Educative Sessions Jan 15, 2021

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Coding in public has always been Robert's preference. An earlier adopter to coffee shop life, for a while people didn't understand what he was doing there with his laptop, and why he wasn't talking to anyone else, or reading a book. It's much more common now, and there is a much larger, global community of nomads.
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Robert Murray s a software engineer currently working at TaskRabbit. He also has a pension for sourcing the best coffee in any city he visits, is an amateur competitive latte artist, a lover of live music, a MINI enthusiast and occasional mechanic.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
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Episode #32: "What's the weird looking stuff on the screen?" with Robert Murray of TaskRabbit | Educative Sessions

#31: ”Daring to Create My Own Future in Tech” with Kenlyn Terai of Slalom Build | Educative Sessions Dec 18, 2020

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A lover of quotes, Kenlyn Terai's story is somewhere between Abraham Lincoln's "The best way to predict the future is to create it" and Helen Keller's "Life is a daring adventure or nothing." She spent a lot of time discovering the right career/life fit and decided Tech was the way to go. Join in and hear how she overcame setbacks to find a fulfilling career path.

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Kenlyn Terai is a medical device product manager turned full stack engineer for Slalom Build in Seattle. She is also a mom, former competitive athlete, and entrepreneur who loves coaching and helping others reach their full potential. Currently she's loving the contributions she gets to make as an Engineer while teaching JavaScript and React on the side.

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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.

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Episode 31: "Daring to Create My Own Future in Tech" with Kenlyn Terai of Slalom Build | Educative Sessions

#30: ”Finding My Community: Immigration and Tech” with Taimur Khan of Adsata | Educative Sessions Dec 16, 2020

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Immigrants: they get the job done, right? It is no secret the world today is increasingly polarized on immigration. However, world economies believed for years that tech innovation was propelled by newcomers, from Nikola Tesla to Sergey Brin of Google. However, Tesla or Brin might have found it difficult to integrate in today's communities based purely on their tech skill and knowledge. Hear Taimur Khan talk about his own journey why the issue of community integration for tech immigrants needs to be revisited.

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Eight year ago, Taimur Khan left Pakistan to better himself. First, a college-scholarship took him to upstate New York, and then a tech startup idea brought him to east Germany. Since moving to Germany, Taimur has not only been able to successfully establish his startup, but also to teach web development to "newcomers."

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Episode 30: "Finding My Community: Immigration and Tech" with Taimur Khan of Adsata | Educative Sessions

#29: ”A Mother’s Long, Winding Road into Technology” with Ivette Cortez of ChickTech | Educative Sessions Dec 14, 2020

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Is there such a thing as the perfect life and career? For Ivette Cortez, this question drove her to make some big leaps of faith and fulfill her lifelong dream, including bringing her 4 year-old to a free coding class! By putting her values first, Ivette iterated her career repeatedly until she found a way to a charmed life and career that combines her passions for education, community inclusion, and technology.

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Since 2016, Ivette Cortez has been working for ChickTech to empower womxn, girls, and promote equity and diversity in tech. In the spring of 2020, Ivette led the roll-out of ChickTech’s online platform ACT-W+ to help mitigate the negative impact COVID-19 has had for womxn in tech.

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#28: ”Always Check Your Defaults” with Hunter Davis | Educative Sessions Dec 09, 2020

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Long ago a much younger engineer was fresh out of college and writing software for a manufacturing company whose machines cut wings for stealth bombers. This is the story of a trio of troublesome software bugs, one debugged while talking over the phone with an unnamed military personnel, one which caused the printing of 30K extra "disk 2" cds, and one which deleted all the files on his supervisor's machine.

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Hunter Davis is an author, hacker, blogger, and currently Director of Engineering at RealSelf.

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#27: ”Thrown into the Deep End: Inheriting Legacy Code” with David Garrison of Quote Wizard | Educative Sessions Dec 02, 2020

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On three separate occasions, David Garrison has joined a team and, within a few months, has ended up as the most senior person on that team. For better or worse, David has had to learn how to dig into old projects with minimal documentation and no one to ask what this weird piece of logic does and why everything breaks when it's changed.
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David Garrison (they/them) is a Data Engineer, currently specializing in Azure and Snowflake databases and pipelines. They started out as a mathematician and scientist before finding their way into database work for a variety of industries ranging from International trade regulations, to Bible software, to insurance lead generation.
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Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks.
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Episode 27: "Thrown into the Deep End: Inheriting Legacy Code" with David Garrison of Quote Wizard | Educative Sessions

#26: ”Rerouting: Getting Derailed from an Academic Career” with Susan Fung of Liberty Mutual | Educative Sessions Dec 01, 2020

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While in pursuit of a PhD, Susan Fung was set on a career as a science researcher. However, some of her experiments didn't go as planned, and as Susan also developed arm and neck pain, her career was derailed into uncertainty. In this Session, Susan shares her emotional process in 2014 of transitioning from a career in academia to data science.

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Dr. Susan Fung is a data scientist and first-generation university graduate of Berkeley and the University of Washington with degrees in Cognitive Science and Neurobiology. She delights in telling the stories behind the data.

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Episode 26: "Rerouting: Getting Derailed from an Academic Career" with Susan Fung of Liberty Mutual | Educative Sessions

#25: ”Let’s break down the data science hiring process, shall we?” with Charles Givre | Educative Sessions Nov 23, 2020

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Charles Givre is the co-founder and CEO of DataDistillR. Previously, Charles led engineering teams at JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Booz Allen Hamilton. Charles is passionate about teaching data science and analytic skills and has classes all over the world at conferences, universities and for clients. He is the co-author of the O'Reilly book, Learning Apache Drill.

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Episode 25: "Let's break down the data science hiring process, shall we?" with Charles Givre | Educative Sessions

#24: ”Rubber Ducky Coding: A.I. and the Future of Online Education” with Alex Wyrick | Educative Sessions Nov 20, 2020

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When Alex Wyrick worked on a research project, the first half required him to study AI chatbots, and the second half needed a focus on online learning. He devised a plan to teach a kids coding camp, using a Slack channel to emulate the chatbot experience. He soon learned that chatbots don't need to do anything special to be helpful. They only need to be there ... like a rubber ducky.
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Alex Wyrick is a Senior UX designer at Hitachi Vantara where he specializes in product accessibility on their enterprise software. He is also an artist, a startup enthusiast, and an all around fanboy of all things EdTech. He hopes one day to put a small dent in improving the way that people learn.

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Episode 24: "Rubber Ducky Coding: A.I. and the Future of Online Education" with Alex Wyrick | Educative Sessions

#23: ”The Wanderlust Years That Inspired Me to Become a Coder” with Dawn Saquin of Wicket Labs | Educative Sessions Nov 18, 2020

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Although Dawn Saquin was exposed to code rather early in her career after taking a break from college, it took a year of world travel and another of teaching in a foreign country to fully understand her potential and pursue a program in software development. Learn about her exciting journey and gained wisdom in this special Session.   

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Dawn Saquin is a Seattle-based software developer currently with Wicket Labs. Prior to her life as a coder, she’s worked in a multitude of jobs in the tech world and traveled to nearly a dozen countries. Dawn is an adventurer at heart and escapes to the mountains to hike and climb at every opportunity.

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