Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 203 | Sarah Dutkiewicz - Master And Apprentice
Guest:
Sarah Dutkiewicz talks with Dave Rael about leading and learning, engaging with the community, and choosing the right priorities
Sarah has been in the technical realm since the late 90s. She has served in many roles – including technical support, manager, desktop support, server administrator, database administrator, developer, instructor, and mentor. Throughout her career, Sarah has found her place in the technical community – as an organizer, speaker, facilitator, author, editor, reviewer, blogger, and advocate. Due to her community involvement, Microsoft has awarded her the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award – 2009-2014 in Visual C#, 2015 in Visual Studio, and 2016 in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. Sarah loves sharing her passion for tech with the community whenever she can!
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Sarah Dutkiewicz
- - A marriage of fellow geeks
- - Balancing heavy involvement and family life
- - The Cleveland developer community
- - Sarah's family
- - Sarah's young apprentices - her rewarding work at The Software Guild
- - Team organization at The Software Guild and setting up challenges
- - The things that "light Sarah up", origins of working with software, and personal life enhancement in dealing with computing
- - Sarah's diverse set of roles and experiences and engaging into speaking and communities
- - The difficulty of getting engaged in speaking
- - Hostility to women in tech
- - Sarah's story of failure - deficiency of setting expectations and asking questions
- - Sarah's success story - contributing to the success of apprentices
- - Sarah's book recommendation
- - The things that have Sarah most excited
- - The causes of pain and suffering for Sarah
- - Sarah's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Sarah
Resources:
- Myers-Briggs Personality Test
- Richard Campbell on Developer On Fire
- Jeremy Clark on Developer On Fire
- Sam Nasr on Developer On Fire
- Doc Norton on Developer On Fire
- Cleveland GiveCamp
- The Software Guild
- Eric Wise
- Tom Preston-Werner - The Git Parable
- Oregon Trail
- Jeff Blankenburg
- OOPSLA
- Donovan Brown on Developer On Fire
- Dev Coaches Podcast
- Women in Tech on the Dev Coaches Podcast
Sarah's book recommendation:
Sarah's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Talk to people
- Don't be afraid to talk
- Treat others the way you want to be treated - especially as a human
