Exponential Growth - How to Break Into Tech

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Leveraging Humility as a Junior Dev, Executive and Startup Founder with Dan Lines Sep 12, 2023

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Dan Lines is the Co-Founder and COO at LinearB. From his early days as a junior dev, to becoming the youngest junior exec and now a startup co-founder, two pillars of Dan's success have been humility and empathy.

In this conversation we discuss:

How to land a role as a junior dev without a CS degree
Co-founding a company
Improving the developer experience
Starting and growing a Podcast

Dan's Links:

Sonic and Hotels to LinkedIn Program Manager with Raymond Lorenzana Sep 05, 2023

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Raymond Lorenzana Jr. is the Program Manager for LinkedIn's REACH Apprenticeship program. Before that, he used to work at Sonic and Marriot Hotels before landing an internship at Google.

Raymond shares how he overcame "not being the smartest kid" growing up, dealing with imposter syndrome and how he eventually went on to work for some of the biggest names in tech.

LinkedIn’s Apprenticeship Just Opened: Program Deepdive & Community Questions Sep 01, 2023

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LinkedIn's REACH Apprenticeship program just opened. I do a deep dive on the application process, what you can expect and the many benefits that are included.

Chapters:

(00:00) Preview

(01:09) What is the REACH Program?

(03:20) Benefits

(06:53) The Hiring Process

(09:32) Application & Essays: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Apprentice

(23:58) Application & Essays: Backend Engineer Apprentice

(35:17) REACH Program FAQs

(40:35) Exponential Growth Community Q&A

(49:10) Closing / Summary

Links:

Program Details: https://careers.linkedin.com/reach
James' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-hudnall/

Freelance to Senior Engineer at Wisely with Caleb Mellas Aug 29, 2023

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Caleb Mellas is a Senior Software Engineer at Olo, the company that acquired Wisely. He talks about learning to code, progressing to the senior level and being part of a hundred million dollar acquisition.

Links:

- Caleb's Newsletter

- Caleb's LinkedIn

Programming, hundred-million dollar exits and founding a company with Ori Keren Aug 22, 2023

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Ori Keren is Co-founder & CEO at LinearB, a company focused on Software Delivery Management for Engineering Leaders.

Prior to starting LinearB, Ori was VP of R&D at CloudLock, which was eventually acquired by Cisco . Before that, he managed an engineering group at Interwise that was eventually acquired by AT&T.

With more than 15 years of management experience, Ori shares his journey into tech, as well as advice for those trying to do the same.

Ori's Links:

- LinkedIn Profile

- LinearB, Ori's company

Construction to Software Developer with Luke Hovee Aug 15, 2023

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Luke Hovee is a Software Engineer at CollegeHouse. Before this, he served time in the Army and also worked construction.

Luke's LinkedIn

Concrete to CEO and Business Mogul with Nik Froehlich Aug 08, 2023

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Nik Froehlich is the Founder and CEO of Saritasa, a leading US-Based Software Consulting & Development Firm with 140+ employees. He shares his journey into tech, entrepreneurship and building an empire from the ground up.

Nik's links:

- https://www.saritasa.com/

- LinkedIn Profile

Army to Senior Product Manager at Salesforce with Nicu Parente Aug 01, 2023

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Nicu Parente is a Senior Product Manager at Salesforce, Army veteran and content creator.

Nicu's Links:

- Personal Website

- Free Tech Resources

- Connect with Nicu

- LinkedIn Profile

Army to Software Engineer at Zillow with Joshua Huston Jul 18, 2023

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Growing up in Arizona, Joshua Huston used to think the internet ran itself. Today he influences a small portion of it as a Software Engineer at Zillow.

In this conversation, Josh takes us on a journey that starts in a small town in Arizona, time in the Army and National Guard, pivoting into tech as an analyst at Zillow and eventually into Software Engineering.

- Joshua's LinkedIn Profile

June 2023 Community Wins & Recap Jul 11, 2023

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This week we're celebrating community wins, and recapping some of the underlying themes of last month's episodes.

We hear from Lane Hamilton and Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura, each of whom recently graduated from a software engineering bootcamp. We dive into their progress, lessons learned and also what they each have planned as next-steps.

Show Links:

- Lane's LinkedIn

- Taiyo's LinkedIn

Want to share your own win on a future episode? Contact me https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-hudnall/https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-hudnall/.

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