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Developer On Fire

Developer On Fire

Developer On Fire with Dave Rael is an interview podcast with inspiring and successful software professionals telling personal stories about their experiences with delivering value. It is a chance for you to get to know your favorite geeks and learn more about who they are, how they deliver, and what makes them tick. Learn from and get to know special geeks like Matt Wynne, Rob Eisenberg, Udi Dahan, Ted Neward, John Sonmez, Phil Haack, and David Heinemeier Hansson.

Available Episodes 10

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Aimee Knight talks with Dave Rael about perspectives, software, learning, planning, taking care of yourself, and achievement

Aimee Knight is a Software Architect and currently lives in Nashville TN. As a former professional figure skater, she has a tremendous amount of energy and grit. Outside of work, she's a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast and an international keynote speaker. Currently, she specializes in JS, React, and CSS, however, she's worked extensively in Angular, Node, and Ruby on Rails as well. Her past involvement includes working at npm, Inc., being a weekly panelist on the Angular Air podcast, a co-organizer for CharmCityJS, and mentor for Baltimore NodeSchool and Rails Bridge.

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Aimee's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Get plenty of sleep
  2. Try to find areas where you can make an impact
  3. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

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Alberto Brandolini talks with Dave Rael about EventStorming, experimentation, inspiration, visualization, design, and helping teams

Alberto Brandolini can model every business domain, given enough space, a paper roll and an unlimited source of colored sticky notes (with a larger stock of orange ones). His contributions to the community include EventStorming, Model Storming and, more notably, the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle. Alberto Brandolini is an IT Professional that gets bored doing things in the same old way. This led him into unexplored areas of Domain-Driven Design, Lean and Agile Software Development, learning and change management, where he likes to bring apparent chaotic fuzziness and a comic-like visual touch. An active consultant in software product development, he also runs his company Avanscoperta. He’s frequently invited as a speaker in many conferences in Italy (where he’s based) and around Europe.

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Alberto's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Create a visual representation of the problem
  2. Look at what people are not saying
  3. Never get satisfied with your first solution

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Reem Altamimi talks with Dave Rael about leading teams, culture, choices, opportunity, and learning human skills

Reem Altamimi is a Software Developer Lead with the Department of Transportation, State of Tennessee. Since she started working for TDOT in 2015, she has been enjoying adopting agile methodologies in software development and in life in general. She loves writing code as it requires logical thinking, creativity and solving problems. Her favorite thing about writing code is finding bugs and fixing them. She always looks for perfection in her code as well as life which can be challenging sometimes. Reem is always been passionate about learning new skills whether they are technical or human. She is a strong believer in helping other people learn and achieve their goals.

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Reem's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Look at a situation from multiple perspectives
  2. Think positively - cut the circuit on negativity
  3. Listen and communicate face-to-face

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Luca Ferrari talks with Dave Rael about PostgreSQL, learning, writing, archery, language, and opportunity

Luca is a Computer Science passionate since the Commodore 64 era, and today holds a Master Degree (with honor) and a PhD from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He lives in Italy with his beautiful wife Emanuela, their great son Diego, Sofia and Olivia (two female cats) and the last arrived Franzina (a female small-size dog). He has written several research papers, technical articles and book chapters, as well as a book about PostgreSQL titled "PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming". He worked as a lecturer for University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, as well as a local high school. In 2011 he was titled Adjunct Professor by University of Nipissing. An avid Unix user, he is a strong advocate of Open Source, and in his free time he collaborates to a few projects. He met PostgreSQL back to release 7.3; he was a founder and former president of the Italian PostgreSQL Users' Group (ITPUG), he talks regularly at technical conferences and events and does professional training. In his day-to-day activity he uses Linux, FreeBSD, PostgreSQL and Emacs. His favourite programming language is Perl (and Raku), but the most of his career has been based in Java and PHP. In his teen-age he has been a quite proficient archer. Archery is something that deeply changed its life, and he finds some similarities between archery and Open Source.

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Luca's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Disagree honestly and don't be afraid to say what you think should be said
  2. Try to contribute to at least one open source project
  3. Mind your time

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Nick Chase talks with Dave Rael about reading, writing, learning, machine learning, tackling huge tasks, and sharing knowledge

Nick Chase is a developer, author, and professional Explainer-of-Things. He is the author of Machine Learning for Mere Mortals, as well as other technical books and a few hundred tutorials. He is also Head of Technical Content for the cloud computing company Mirantis, and has participated in multiple open source projects, including Kubernetes and OpenStack. A former technical and pop culture journalist and publisher, he and his wife, who is also his partner, work out of a chicken, goat, and koi farm in the wilds of Ohio.

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Nicholas's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Do not be afraid to admit you don't understand something
  2. Figure out what works for you
  3. At least once per year, do something that scares you