Jessica Wilkins joins the show to talk about her origin story coming from being a musician to building a passion project to promote diversity in classical music and how she got pulled into the tech industry by warm, friendly communities.

We discuss a fun, approachable way to learn technology as we discuss Exercism, an online platform built to teach the joy of programming to everyone.

• (00:00) - Top 8 of Season 1: #7: "A fun, approachable way"
• (08:17) - Exercism
• (15:24) - FreeCodeCamp

• Black Excellence Music Project
• Exercism Learning Platform
• FreeCodeCamp

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• Jessica's Website
• Jessica's Twitter
• Jessica's LinkedIn
• Jessica's GitHub

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• Eddie - Host
• Jessica Wilkins - Guest

Carolina Lunardi Correa joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working as a supply chain professional to starting her first apprenticeship with Amazon!

We discuss how she learned to code using leet code, and how life brings her joy. We also talk about what caused her to make the switch, how she used her current experience to slowly shift into product development from the business side and then finally getting a role as a software engineering apprentice.

• (00:00) - Top 8 of Season 1, #8: I learned how by doing leet code (Carolina))
• (02:05) - Origin Story
• (14:26) - The Simple Things Bring Joy
• (18:55) - Accountability Buddies
• (22:11) - Wrapping Up

• Accountability Buddies Twitter Community

🙋 Guest Links

• Carolina's LinkedIn
• Carolina's Twitter

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• Carolina Correa - Guest

Kelly Vaughn joins the show to talk about her origin story, from learning html in neopets to doing freelancing, and eventually founding her own agency. More recently, Kelly has shifted to work as an Engineering Manager and now Engineering Director at Spot AI.

We discuss how you have different levels of scope and responsibility depending on the size of the company you're working at and how changing the size of company you work at can be beneficial to your career and mental health. We dive into Kelly's love of reading and all the secrets she hides on her kindle 😉

• (00:00) - 1-44: I like to say I’m not gonna do something, and then I do it anyway
• (01:55) - Origin Story
• (11:29) - Reading (154 books last year!)
• (18:03) - Engineering Leadership Newsletter
• (19:26) - Wrapping Up

• Good Reads (The Site, but not Kelly's)
• Engineering Leadership Newsletter (Kelly's newsletter)

🙋 Guest Links

• Kelly's Twitter
• Kelly's LinkedIn
• Kelly's Instagram
• Kelly's Mastodon

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• Eddie - Host
• Kelly Vaughn - Guest