Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 347 | Gwen Faraday - Confident Growth
Guest:
Gwen Faraday talks to Dave Rael about becoming a professional developer, organizing user groups, helping people, and doing uncomfortable things
Gwendolyn Faraday is a software developer from Indianapolis, IN. Professionally, she works mostly with cross-platform mobile technologies, React, and Node on AWS. For fun, she loves dabbling in other languages, working on new IoT projects, and making apps that help people learn or build good habits through gamification.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Gwen Faraday
- - Gwen, the user group organizer
- - Self-teaching and helping people learn
- - Gwen's career history before professional software development
- - Getting more comfortable with people
- - Gwen, the conference speaker
- - Gwen's interest in blockchain
- - Gwen's many technical interests and priorities
- - Gwen's story of failure - getting fired because of being too quiet for customer-facing jobs
- - Gwen's experiences with breaking into professional software development
- - Gwen's book recommendations and productivity recommendations
- - What Gwen is working on
- - The things the have Gwen most excited
- - Gwen's top 3 tips for delivering more value
Resources:
- Free Code Camp Indy
- Indianapolis Blockchain Developers
- Gwen on GitHub
- Gwen on GitLab
- Free Code Camp
- Quincy Larson on Developer On Fire
- How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- Dave Fancher on Developer On Fire
- Indy.Code()
- Ted Neward on Developer On Fire
- Running into the Storm
- No Degree, No Problem - Josh Kemp
- Nirvana (Task Management Application Focused on the Getting Things Done Methodology)
Gwen's book recommendation:
Gwen's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Communication - ask the right questions
- Ask those right questions up front
- Resist the temptation to jump into code right away before the necessary communication
