How do one become a software developer? Life and career lessons to influence your software developer's journey

Episodes list:

Season 3:

• Aug 11, 2020: #113
  Brendan O'Leary from healthcare to Gitlab
• Aug 04, 2020: #112
  Dan Moore went from sci-fi to devrel
• Jul 28, 2020: #111
  Sam Julien from financial adviser to developer advocate
• Jul 21, 2020: #110
  Jerome Hardaway is the definition of willpower
• Jul 14, 2020: #109
  Coraline Ada Ehmke lives up to her values
• Jul 07, 2020: #108
  Cassidy Williams loves developer experience
• Jun 30, 2020: #107
  Josh Long found his place the world as a developer advocate with the Spring team
• Jun 23, 2020: #106
  Kyle Shevlin from pastor to programmer
• Jun 16, 2020: #105
  Sara Vieira is opinionated per design
• Jun 09, 2020: #104
  Jason Lengstorf successfully bet on himself for his career
• Jun 02, 2020: #103
  Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back
• May 26, 2020: #102
  Jen Luker is a relentless accessibility advocate
• May 19, 2020: #101
  Jeff Haynie on thinking under pressure, contracting and entrepreneurship
• May 12, 2020: #100
  Tim Bourguignon is a guest on his own show
• May 05, 2020: #99
  Anjana Vakil mastered her debilitating curiosity
• Apr 28, 2020: #98
  Doug Arcuri is curious & learning, always!
• Apr 21, 2020: #97
  Joe Drumgoole's life as a great software developer NPC
• Apr 14, 2020: #96
  Dylan Beattie is THE Rockstar Programmer
• Apr 07, 2020: #95
  Lara Martin went from biologist to Flutter GDE
• Mar 31, 2020: #94
  Michael Kennedy almost learned Python in the 90s
• Mar 24, 2020: #93
  Guilherme Rambo found his joy in coding for Mac/iOS
• Mar 17, 2020: #92
  Tracy Lee is having fun all the way.
• Mar 10, 2020: #91
  Harald Reingruber is embarking on a coding tour
• Mar 03, 2020: #90
  Khaled Souf learned the value of creating value
• Feb 25, 2020: #89
  Hadelin de Ponteves is as much an entrepreneur as he is a data scientist
• Feb 18, 2020: #88
  Lydia Hallie is following her passion
• Feb 11, 2020: #87
  Denise Gosnell is working at the bleeding edge of data science
• Feb 04, 2020: #86
  Jamison Dance implores you to be nice to other people
• Jan 28, 2020: #85
  Shedrack Akintayo went remote first
• Jan 21, 2020: #84
  Molly Struve had a long winding journey to SRE
• Jan 14, 2020: #83
  Reuven Lerner made one of the first 100 websites... ever
• Jan 08, 2020: #82
  Pariss -Athena- Chandler learns jumping in with both feet first

Season 2:

• Dec 31, 2019: Season 2 Finale
• Dec 24, 2019: #81
  Richard Campbell is simply adding value
• Dec 17, 2019: #80
  Joseph Young, code & music composer and conductor
• Dec 10, 2019: #79
  Ted Young & Java, a love story?
• Dec 03, 2019: #78
  Bubunyo Nyavor is the mentor he never had in his career
• Nov 26, 2019: #77
  Dave Smith swings the individual contributor, manager pendulum
• Nov 19, 2019: #76
  Wes Bos was born a teacher
• Nov 12, 2019: #75
  David Hirschfeld had a long, eventful career (sofar)
• Nov 04, 2019: #74
  Kemdi Ebi is thriving on products
• Oct 28, 2019: #73
  Kai König about simplicity, aesthetics and learning
• Oct 22, 2019: #72
  Katrina Owen, one little piece at a time
• Oct 15, 2019: #71
  Irwin Williams found his perfect career spot
• Oct 08, 2019: #70
  Jeeva Nadarajah's life of serendipity
• Oct 01, 2019: #69
  Aisha Blake's DevJourney should be a musical
• Sep 24, 2019: #68
  Greg Koberger finally built his one dream
• Sep 17, 2019: #67
  Kapunahele Wong's kindness as a practice
• Sep 10, 2019: #66
  Rob Kendal is not afraid to try and learn
• Sep 03, 2019: #65
  Woody Zuill brings people together who should be working together
• Aug 27, 2019: #64
  Guillermo Rauch learned with communities
• Aug 20, 2019: #63
  Stephanie Hurlburt encourages us to be social techies
• Aug 13, 2019: #62
  ‪Llewellyn Falco brought the joy of programming back in his life‬
• Aug 06, 2019: #61
  Elissa Shevinsky felt into Security
• Jul 30, 2019: #60
  Trisha Gee owns her career
• Jul 23, 2019: #59
  Julie Moronuki a linguist turned Haskell expert
• Jul 16, 2019: #58
  Robby Russell succeeds being selfless
• Jul 09, 2019: #57
  Adam Barr roots for more humility in our careers
• Jul 02, 2019: #56
  Magnus Stahre is not supposed to know it all, and neither are we!
• Jun 25, 2019: #55
  Yehuda Katz on how framework design influences communities
• Jun 18, 2019: #54
  David Rael was chosen by the .NET technology stack, not the other way around
• Jun 11, 2019: #53
  Brian Pontarelli thinks like a customer
• Jun 04, 2019: #52
  Charity Majors encourages us to strive, going back and forth between roles
• May 28, 2019: #51
  Ben Orenstein advises us not to worry too much
• May 21, 2019: #50
  Saron Yitbarek, founder of CodeNewbie, celebrates the power of code and communities
• May 14, 2019: #49
  Ali Spittel works at the crossroads of development, teaching and communities
• May 21, 2019: #48
  Shawn Wildermuth encourages us to make decisions no matter what
• May 07, 2019: #47
  Erik StMartin is comfortable with the struggle
• Apr 23, 2019: #46
  Barry Dorrans is a curmudgeon telling us it is OK to be wrong
• Apr 09, 2019: #45
  April Wensel encourages us to get in touch with our core values
• Mar 26, 2019: #44
  Jeremy Likness became a developer through the backdoor and loved it
• Mar 12, 2019: #43
  Pat Kua on being a consultant, a tech lead, a CTO and helping people grow
• Feb 26, 2019: #42
  Charlie Gerard is learning by building (MANY) projects on the side
• Feb 12, 2019: #41
  Simon Harrer on strong opinions loosely held
• Jan 29, 2019: #40
  Ignacio Anaya on discovering your valuable skills
• Jan 15, 2019: #39
  Harry Roberts and his journey toward freelancing
• Jan 01, 2019: #38
  Ryan Latta from one extreme to the next

Season 1:

• Dec 18, 2018: #37
  Darren Hoehna, "That Programming Guy", on getting experience no matter what!
• Dec 04, 2018: #36
  Rob Allen on persuasion instead of authority
• Nov 20, 2018: #35
  Emily Bache on maximizing career for family, hobbies and making a difference in the world
• Nov 05, 2018: #34
  Richard Rodger on software development as a resource allocation problem
• Oct 22, 2018: #33
  Markus Harrer on being open for new things
• Oct 09, 2018: #32
  Katharine Jarmul on being driven & focused on what you can do
• Sep 25, 2018: #31
  Mario Rogic on absorbing and communicating as much as you can
• Sep 10, 2018: #30
  Adrian Bolboaca on choosing the appropriate tool for the job at hand
• Aug 27, 2018: #29
  Steven Schwenke on soft skills that one cannot "simply download"
• Aug 13, 2018: #28
  Arnaud Porterie on putting the right people together in the right context to see the right things happen
• Jul 30, 2018: #27
  Jessica Kerr on public speaking, networking and the problems of mentoring
• Jul 16, 2018: #26
  Anne Cahalan on moving out of Junior-Developerness
• Jun 08, 2018: #25
  Sia Ghassemi on segways that lead exactly where you needed to be
• Jun 29, 2017: #24
  Daniel Marbach on failure, remoteness and mentoring
• Jun 14, 2017: #23
  Laura Savino on languages and public speaking
• May 17, 2017: #22
  Rob Napier on interviewing and asking questions
• May 01, 2017: #21
  David Tanzer on craftmanship and the need for coaching
• Apr 15, 2017: #20
  Ivo Vutov on growing into Microsoft as a student partner
• Apr 05, 2017: #19
  Manuela Rink on being an iOS developer evangelist at Microsoft
• Jan 23, 2017: #18
  Kevin Keller on living the digital nomad way of life
• Jun 14, 2016: #16
  Damien Beaufils on the test pyramide
• Jun 07, 2016: #15
  NCrafts Organizers Rui Carvalho, Maxime Sanglan & Peter Even on organizing a software conference
• Jun 01, 2016: #13
  JB Rainsberger on what it means to truly be agile
• May 26, 2016: #12
  Jens Schauder on open-source software development
• May 10, 2016: #11
  Nicole Rauch on the coding tour to learn and grow
• May 03, 2016: #10
  Agata Bres & Adam Nowakowski on taking a break
• Apr 12, 2016: #8
  Louise Elliott on dealing with people
• Mar 22, 2016: #7
  Benjamin Reitzammer on caring, in every sense of the word
• Mar 02, 2016: #5
  Amitai Schlaier on buying your freedom to do what you like

About the host:

Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow in their career and personally. He particularly likes storytelling and tales and crazy ideas. More about him at timbourguignon.fr or on Twitter @Timothep!