Episodes

Thursday May 19, 2022
#16 The Journey of Jorge Vásquez
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Jorge is a software engineer at Scalac, mostly focused on the backend. He's had the chance to work with several technologies and programming languages across different industries, such as Telco, AdTech, Streaming and Online Education. Also, he loves Functional Programming, especially in Scala.
In this episode Jorge shared about his journey during his career path since his studies. He studied Telecommunication Engineering at university, at the same time he got interested into programming and he was learning different programming languages until he found a job that enabled him to use his software development knowelegde in real life to solve real World problems and to develop his skills.
Jorge shared about different challenges that he had faced and about the steps that helped him to get closer to his dream job.
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Monday Apr 25, 2022
#15 The Journey of Nodar Jarrar
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Nodar is a Full Stack Software Engineer at Freiheit.com
During High school Nodar studied Mathematics as a major. When he was 15, he got interested in programming and he joined some competitive programming 'olympiad' in high school, this inspired him to continue on IT direction and he decided to study Computer Science at university.
Nodar shared some of his learning experiences, about the Full Stack Engineer role and how it is beneficial to learn about the different parts of the system. He also talked about some challenges that helped him to grow professionally. Nodar shared some tips to get your first job after graduation based on his experience.
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Monday Apr 18, 2022
#14 The Journey of Ibtihel Fekih Summary (🇬🇧)
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Ibtihel Fekih is a software engineer with 7 years of experience in IT and currently she is an entrepreneur.
She is the CEO and founder of Kbayroun.
This episode is a summary in English of the previous tunisian discussion with Ibtihel.
Ibtihel shared about her different learning experiences and some advice and inspirational stories that she went through during her journey.
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Friday Apr 08, 2022
#14 The Journey of Ibtihel Fekih (🇹🇳)
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Ibtihel Fekih is a software engineer with 7 years of experience in IT and currently she is an entrepreneur.
She is the CEO and founder of Kbayroun.
She's active in social media and she is an inspiration to many Tunisians.
This episode is exceptional, Ibtihel and I talked in Tunisian Dialect, so we could make it accessible to the Tunisian audience to learn more about her journey duing studies and working in IT and how she became an entrepreneur.
Ibtihel shared about her different learning experiences and some advice and inspirational stories that she went through during her journey.
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Saturday Feb 19, 2022
#13 The Journey of Kit Langton
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Kit is a Scala programmer and a teacher at Ziverge. In his free time, he contributes to Open Source software and bangs chaotically on his piano.
In this episode, Kit talked about his journey during his studies and about his career path.
He shared about his learning experiences during his inspiring journey.
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Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
#12 The Journey of Amany Al Qatawy
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Amany is a Data Engineer.
In this episode Amany shared about her journey during her studies and her career in Tech.
She talked about the different obstacles that she had faced and how it is important to choose a healthy working environment.
She shared a very important message.
I hope that the story of Amany will help to raise awareness about diversity and inclusion in Tech.
Listen to the full episode and learn more about the journey of Amany.
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Thursday Jan 27, 2022
#11 The Journey of Adam Fraser
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Adam Fraser is a solutions architect. He is one of the top contributors to ZIO, a library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in functional Scala. Adam is the co-author of the ZIO Test and the author of ZIO Query. He is a conference speaker, writer, and mentor to other software developers regarding functional programming.
In this episode Adam talked about how he changed his career path from business & finances to programming and about his experience contributing in open source project and how he started working in Tech.
He shared some of his learning experiences and advice that helped him during his journey.
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Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
#10 The journey of Nivi
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Nivi is a Full Stack Developer.

Saturday Dec 11, 2021
#9 The journey of Justin Kaeser
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Justin found his way into Scala and Software Tooling Development after
a long path as a student of computer science and computational
linguistics. Today he works on the Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA to
improve integration of build tools and different teams across
organizations. He is a Software Engineer and a Customer Success Engineer.
In this episode Justin shared about his experience during his studies and his career.
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Sunday Nov 28, 2021
#8 The journey of Mouna Mani
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Mouna is a Software Engineer. She works as a Mobile Developer in Dubai.
In this episode Mouna shared about her experience studying and working in Tunisia,
I studied with Mouna, we talked about our experience when we chose to study Computer Science even it was a new option in Tunisia during that time and the future wasn't clear for us.
Mouna shared about her career journey in Dubai including the challenges that she had faced and the different opportunities that she got.
She shared some advice and suggestions that helped her personally to progress in her career.
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