Early in Dan’s career, he saw the clear need for companies to solve technical and cultural challenges around automated testing. He made this challenge his focus. Dan has been in roles ranging from quality engineer, test automation lead, and director of quality engineering. His current role is at Salesforce as a principal engineer focusing on testing frameworks and enabling teams to build quality into the product.

In this episode, Dan Forkosh shares about his journey transforming organizations from manual to automated testing and discusses some of the cultural hurdles.

Where to Find Dan Forkosh

On the web: danielforkosh.com

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielforkosh

Book Recommendations

This week’s audiobook recommendations are Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work and What Does by Susan Fowler and Brief, Make a Bigger Impact By Saying Less by Joseph McCormack. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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Vaidehi Joshi started BaseCS to document her self-guided journey into computer science. It turned into a much-loved blog, podcast, and video series.

Vaidehi is an engineer at Tilde, in Portland, Oregon, where she works on Skylight (a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications). She enjoys building and breaking code, but loves creating empathetic engineering teams a whole lot more. In her spare time, she runs basecs, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of computer science, and is co-host of the Base.cs Podcast.

In this episode, Vaidehi shares about her background as a writer and educator, the origins of BaseCS, and how BaseCS is making computer science concepts accessible to a broader audience.

Where to Find Vaidehi Joshi

@vaidehijoshi on Twitter

BaseCS blog series on Medium

BaseCS podcast

BaseCS video series

TEDx talk

Book Recommendations

This week’s audiobook recommendations are The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars by Patrick Lencioni. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, is a veteran software engineer and technical leader whose varied career spans such fields as education, research, healthcare, and entertainment. She has also mentored and led workshops with diversity-focused organizations like Hackbright Academy and Black Girls Code.

In this episode, April talks about her past as a jerk programmer, how she came to recognize that her behavior was problematic, and why she started Compassionate Coding to help teams deliver better products more effectively.

We were inspired to invite April on the podcast after reading her fantastic article Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer.

Where to Find April Wensel

@aprilwensel and @compassioncode on Twitter.

On the web at https://compassionatecoding.com/.

Book Recommendation

This week’s audiobook recommendation is Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power that Elevates People and Organizations. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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