TechTak Real Stories Behind Tech Careers

#39 The Journey of Shailvi Wakhlu

Shailvi is a seasoned Data Leader and Self-Advocacy Expert with over seventeen years of experience building technology products. She has spoken at nearly 100 global conferences and Fortune 500 events, coached close to 500 individuals, and authored the best-selling book "Self-Advocacy." Her career includes notable roles at Salesforce, Fitbit, and as the Head of Data at Strava.

She is the founder of Shailvi Ventures LLC.

 

Listen to the full episode and learn about her impressive and inspiring journey.

And check-out her book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ44XNZG

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#38 The Journey of Vijay Ravi

Vijay, Data Engineer at LiveIntent, shares insights from his diverse educational and professional journey. His experiences span studies in Bahrain and India, followed by a Master's in Business Analytics in the USA. Throughout his career, Vijay explored various roles and discovered a passion for Data Engineering and generative AI.

Listen to the full episode and learn about his inspiring journey!

Here is Vijay's Instagram: vijayxtech

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#37 The Journey of Cristina

Cristina is a Backend Scala Engineer at MOIA.
She talked about her path during her studies and her career. Cristina worked in various positions until she found her passion for Scala. She spoke about her various experiences and the challenges she encountered along the way. We also talked about the importance of creating a safe environment for women and minorities in tech.

Listen to the full episode and learn about her inspiring journey!

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#36 The Journey of Markus Nerlich

Markus Nerlich is a Process Manager

He talked about his journey, and the way he discovered his passion through curiosity, which motivated him to persevere even in the face of numerous obstacles.

Listen to the full episode and learn about his inspiring journey!

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#35 The Journey of Galina Atamankina

Galina Atamankina is a Tech Trainer at Tech Starter and one of the organisers of the AWS Women's User Group Berlin:

https://www.meetup.com/berlin-amazon-web-services-meetup-group/

Galina talked about her career path. Throughout her journey, she has embraced diverse roles and skillfully seized every opportunity to expand her knowledge and perspective. 

She aims to assist others throughout their journey and impart her knowledge, which ultimately led her to choose her current role that fulfills her purpose.

Listen to the full episode and learn about her inspiring journey!

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#34 The Journey of Alika Rebel

Alika is a hands-on CTO at Kaizo and she organises a Scala meetup in Amsterdam.

Alika shared about: her journey during her studies and her career path, how she dealt with different challenges, how she took the different opportunities and built new skills, and how she included her passion and creativity to bring more opportunities and expand her knowledge.
Listen to the full episode and learn about her inspiring journey!

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#33 The Journey of Flavio Brasil

Flavio Brasil is a Principal Software Engineer and a speaker atTech conferences.

Flavio shared about his inspiring journey along his career path and how he dealt with the different challenges that he had encountered.

Listen to the full episode and learn more about his inspiring journey!

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#32 The Journey of Koussay Khelil

Koussay Khelil is a Senior Software Engineer at ClickGUARD

He discovered his passion for computers at a young age, studied computer science, and started working at a Tech company during his studies, which helped him develop his programming skills and grow in his career.

In this episode, Koussay talked about his career path and shared many tips that helped him personally. He talked about some challenges he had encountered during his journey and how he dealt with them to grow at every step in his career.

 

Listen to the full episode and learn more about his inspiring journey!

 

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#31 The Journey of Becca Williams

Becca is a Senior Tech Recruiter for Functional Programming at Wave Talent.

In this episode, Becca talks about her career path and the various challenges she has overcome that have helped her grow. She also talks about the mission of the Functional Female Community that she and her colleague founded. She talks about the best practices she uses to build a diverse and inclusive team and environment. She also shared some tips for people who are looking for jobs.

Hiring people in Tech companies has an impact on the Tech industry. And listening to Becca's career journey can inspire you and give you insight into her role.

Listen to the full episode.

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#30 The Journey of Bendix Sältz

Bendix is a Tech Lead and a Software Engineer.

He discovered his passion for programming when he was 13 y.o. Bendix studied Economics and Political Science at university, but never stopped improving his programming skills.

In this episode, he shares about the opportunities that got him to Software Engineering.

He is now a Tech Lead and a Software Engineer at Moia. He maintains the Scala open source library: Scapegoat and more other libraries. Bendix is one of the Scala Hamburg meetup organizers.

Listen to the full episode and learn about the inspiring journey of Bendix!

 

And if you are interested to give a talk at the Scala Hamburg meetup, you can add your proposal here: 

https://github.com/scala-hamburg/scala-hamburg/issues

 

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