I’ve gotten a lot better at learning new things, because I’m a lot more open to learning them, in addition to the fact that I constantly learn new things. I would say the benefit of having this open-minded approach to problem-solving is that – basically, what happens is you accelerate your learning a lot as you progress through your career. It’s more like I look at the problem and then I pick “Okay, based on the problem and based on the constraints that I have, this is how I would approach it.” And of course, a lot of that is pulling from my past experience, but sometimes I know that something that I don’t have expertise in would actually be a better solution, and that’s an opportunity to come up to speed with that. I am definitely polyglot and I identify – the longer I go in my career, the more I identify as a generalist, so the more and more I’m like… I don’t really think about things in terms of frameworks and tools and languages.
I think the first time we met in real life was last November at All Things Open… And for anyone who could see Jerod - he’s wearing the conference T-shirt… So that’s a little bit of my origin story… I’m also a community organizer, podcaster myself I’ve been podcasting part-time on the web platform podcast for a little while… And I speak at conferences, and actually that’s kind of how Jerod and I connected.
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So for me, I was interested in solving problems at scale, and really software felt like the right way to do that… That decision happened almost about a decade ago, and since then I’ve really been punching my way up the technical ladder, I would say, from software engineer, to senior software engineer, to tech lead, to project lead, to engineering manager most recently at npm, and I kind of have recently just made a big pendulum swing from management back into an IC role, that’s technical leadership, but less BS around all of the pain points with middle management. I was born in New York City, ended up moving to Dubai when I was two months old… My dad got a job there, so I grew up abroad as an American, but who was an expat… Then I came back to the states when I was 17-18, and went to college, studied biomedical engineering… So yes, I transitioned into software from biomedical engineering, after being exposed to the rapid cycles with software your only bottleneck, and the long product arcs that existed in the biomedical engineering world are just not really there… And also the knowledge sharing component with open source and how folks are sharing million-dollar ideas freely and openly… It was very different than the patent world of biomedical engineering, where everything is heavily guarded and regulated. I’m a principal software engineer based in the Boston area, and my origin story is kind of a really interesting one.
Thank you so much for the warm welcome, Jerod and company.
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