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#82: ”Sacrificing My Engineering Career ... to Code” with Obinna Asiegbulam | Educative Sessions Oct 25, 2021

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Obinna Asiegbulam knew he had to attend university and become a successful mechanical engineer and support his four siblings and widowed mother, all of whom sacrificed their own opportunities to help him succeed. However, Obinna fell quickly out of love with drafting and wanted to do something new. Seeing the potential of the Nigerian tech sector and the creative potential of coding, Obinna had to make a sacrifice of his own.

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Obinna is a 28-year-old software developer from Nigeria. He is the fourth of five children of a widowed mother. Despite his poor background, he did everything possible to acquire a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Although his upbringing was plagued by the untimely death of his father, followed by prolonged hardship, he remained passionate about education. His attentiveness to details and positive can-do attitude have kept him afloat and made him standout.

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 82: "Sacrificing My Engineering Career ... to Code" with Obinna Asiegbulam | Educative Sessions

#81: ”From the Academy to the Valley” with Davit Buniatyan of Activeloop.ai | Educative Sessions Oct 18, 2021

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At an early age, Davit Buniatyan was poised for a stellar career in academia. However, for some reason, he refused the call to jump into tech entrepreneurship after his PhD advisor at Princeton left to pursue a new calling. Eventually, Davit got the call to pursue his own startup idea as well. Check out David's story from the academy to the Valley.

Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/YZxspGOqWzU ABOUT OUR GUEST Before Davit Buniatyan started his PhD at Princeton at the age of 21, he was featured by TechCrunch at the age of 18. During his time at Princeton, he worked on a lot of fun stuff, such as making Alexa more human (which got him featured in CNet). Also, he reconstructed neurons inside mouse brains, which made him think of a radically more efficient way to handle data for machine learning. This idea got him into Y Combinator, where he started https://www.activeloop.ai/, a YC company.
Join Activeloop’s community to connect with fellow engineers and data scientists: ►► https://www.activeloop.ai/
Listen to the Human in the Loop podcast to learn about what’s new in machine learning: ►►https://www.activeloop.ai/podcasts/
Check out Hub, an open-source library maintained by Activeloop: ►► https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub
Visit Educative to start your journey into code ►► https://educative.io Don't forget to subscribe to Educative Sessions on YouTube! ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 81: "From the Academy to the Valley" with Davit Buniatyan of Activeloop.ai | Educative Sessions

#80: ”Mindset Over Matter: How I Learned to Learn Code” with Ngbede Alike | Educative Sessions Oct 11, 2021

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Ngbede Alike came from humble beginnings before he attended university, studied chemical engineering, and eventually became a software engineer. However, he believes the problem with learning tech for people like him is not entirely a question of access. For him, much of it has to do with acquiring the right "mindset" to code.

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Ngbede Alike is a Java Engineer Trainee at Decagon and an award-winning contributor to the Edpresso platform at Educative. He would introduce himself as a dreamer. He hopes someday to work at Google, working on applications for billions of people and having an impact on the world through technology.

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 80: "Mindset Over Matter: How I Learned to Learn Code" with Ngbede Alike | Educative Sessions

#79: ”A CTO Always Pays His Technical Debt” with Brian Leonard of Grouparoo | Educative Sessions Oct 04, 2021

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Before Brian Leonard became the CEO of Grouparoo, he was the CTO of TaskRabbit, once faced with the difficult choice of abandoning aspects of their business that actually made money and had community support. Watch as we discuss how he and his team navigated their way out of this "technical debt."

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Brian Leonard is the CEO and co-founder of Grouparoo, the open source customer data framework that makes it 10x easier to integrate customer data with cloud-based tools. Before that, he was CTO and technical co-founder of TaskRabbit, a pioneer in the gig economy.

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 79: "A CTO Always Pays His Technical Debt" with Brian Leonard of Grouparoo | Educative Sessions

#78: ”I Brought a Drumset to a Python Meetup” with Boris Zalkin | Educative Sessions Sep 27, 2021

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At the Python Meetup group in Munich, Germany, one of the organizers heard Boris Zalkin could drum. "What if you brought your drum kit to our next Meetup? What's the worst that could happen?" Even though he empathizes with the ears and experiential expectations of other Meetup attendees, Boris came to play. Check out the rest of this story.

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Boris Zalkin is Certified Software and Cloud Architect Expert who has solid experience designing and developing complex solutions based on the Azure, Google, AWS clouds. Boris has expertise in building distributed systems and frameworks based on Kubernetes, Azure Service Fabric, etc. His areas of interest include Enterprise Cloud Solutions, Edge Computing, High loaded Web API and Application, Multitenant Distributed Systems, Internet-of-Things Solutions.
Boris Zaikin's Medium blog: https://boriszn.medium.com/
The Epic Python Show videos with drums: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HO6AAgDl0eA0CusEMnN_g
A post about the experience: https://medium.com/@boris.zaikin.drums/how-to-use-your-e-drums-for-real-time-shows-with-skype-zoom-and-discord-c470a4760178

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 78: "I Brought a Drumset to a Python Meetup" with Boris Zalkin | Educative Sessions

#77: ”Learning Code by Giving Back” with Chibuike Nwachukwu of Spleet Africa | Educative Sessions Sep 20, 2021

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When Chibuike Nwachukwu began his programming journey in college, it was really difficult for him to find his path. From his ever-changing interests to lack of mentorship and guidance, its a surprise he stayed focused. Now that he's matured, he sees to it that no junior coder he encounters has to go through the many avoidable hassles he went through.

In our session, Chibuike tells us how helping others helped him become a better coder and also help him find himself along the way.

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Chibuike Nwachukwu is a self-educated software engineer and technical Writer. He is a passionate problem solver, who enjoys constant learning and knowledge sharing. When not coding, you would find him playing games or forming new partnerships.

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 77: "Learning Code by Giving Back" with Chibuike Nwachukwu of Spleet Africa | Educative Sessions

#76: ”Making a Bilingual C++ Blog a Success” with Rainer Grimm of Modernes C++ | Educative Sessions Sep 13, 2021

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Rainer Grimm loves to teach and explain modern C++. Consequently, he has written a few books, a few courses, and videos about modern C++. Most C++ developer know Rainer because he is the author of the blog Modernes C++ (https://www.modernescpp.com/) that started as a German blog. Both blogs are more than five years old have about 1000 posts and in average 100,000 readers a week.

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Rainer Grimm has worked as a software architect, and team lead. In 2002, he created company-intern meetings for further education and started to give trainings. Rainer loves to write articles. He publish weekly on his English blog and the German blog. Since 2016 he is an independent instructor for C++ and Python. Rainer published several books in various languages to modern C++ and concurrency, in particular. Due to his profession, Rainer always searches for the best way to teach modern C++.

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 76: "Making a Bilingual C++ Blog a Success" with Rainer Grimm of Modernes C++| Educative Sessions

#75: ”From ’D’ to PhD in STEM” with Marsha Tufft of Putney Designs | Educative Sessions Sep 06, 2021

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Marsha Tufft got her first D ever in physics – electricity and magnetism–sophomore year, and later went on to complete a Ph.D. in engineering. But that D rocked her world. She didn’t know if she had what it took to continue in engineering. When the rubber hit the road, it was the hobbies and creative design projects she did as a kid that provided the resilience and grit to stay the course.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST Marsha Tufft earned a BS in mechanical engineering, MS in aerospace engineering, and Ph.D. in materials engineering. Since retiring from GE Aviation, her passion is getting kids engaged in STEM fields through her stories and STEM experiments. She's been active with GE volunteers, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, and also offers school visits in the Greater Cincinnati area. You can learn more at her website, www.putneydesigns.com!

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 75: "From 'D' to PhD in STEM" with Marsha Tufft of Putney Designs | Educative Sessions

#74: ”’Timing’ in Building a Hardware Design Startup” with Kevin Mako | Educative Sessions Aug 30, 2021

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Kevin started Mako Design + Invent in high school, then incorporated in University where Kevin was section class president at the Ivey Business School (Harvard's sister school). He then studied overseas at Hong Kong University for supply chain management & manufacturing. He then went full time at Mako Design + Invent in 2007 after nervously turning down the pick of the litter job offers. Still, to today, Mako Design has no debt, no financing, and no shareholders - a true grassroots organic startup story.

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Kevin Mako is the world’s leading expert on hardware startups. Founder of MAKO Design + Invent (makodesign.com), the pioneer firm for providing world-class end-to-end physical consumer product development tailored to inventors, product startups, & small manufacturers. Masters of Engineering lecturer, sits on a number of entrepreneurship & education boards, and holds the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award designation. Host of The Product Startup Podcast, the hardware development industry’s leading podcast.

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode #74: "'Timing' in Building a Hardware Design Startup" with Kevin Mako | Educative Sessions

#73: ”From Engineer to Manager (and Back)” with Thibaut LaBarre of AngelList | Educative Sessions Aug 23, 2021

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Thibaut LaBarre joined Amazon as an intern where he built Heartbeat, a Natural Language Processing tool that combines millions of data points from disparate feedback sources like product reviews, customer contacts, social media, and provides this information to worldwide product teams. Thibaut grew the team from my internship project to an organization of 20 engineers, transitioning into a manager role. After 7 years at Amazon, he made the jump back to a builder role at a startup.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST Thibaut LaBarre moved from France to Seattle 10 years ago to study computational linguistics at the University of Washington. He spent 7 years at Amazon in various software engineering roles. At the start of 2020, he made the jump to the startup world. On the side, he volunteers for Techstars Startup Weekend and is a long time organizer of the annual Startup Weekend Education series at the Seattle Public Library.

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ABOUT EDUCATIVE 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. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/c/EducativeSessions/ Episode 73: "From Engineer to Manager (and Back)" with Thibaut LaBarre of AngelList | Educative Sessions

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