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#13 The Journey of Kit Langton

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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#12 The Journey of Amany Al Qatawy

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.

 

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#11 The Journey of Adam Fraser

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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#10 The journey of Nivi

Nivi is a Full Stack Developer.

 

She studied Management Science then she decided to start a new journey in a different direction to explore other opportunities until she found her way into programming. She learned programming from the available resources on the Internet and she worked on projects to make progress faster, then she started her career working in Tech companies.

 

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#9 The journey of Justin Kaeser

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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#8 The journey of Mouna Mani

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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#7 The journey of Ayoub Fakir

Ayoub is a Data Engineer Freelancer and part-time Teacher at Paris 12 University.

He holds a Master's Degree in Distributed Systems, interested in both Functional Programming and Distributed Systems including Blockchain technologies.

 

In this episode, Ayoub talked about his experience during his studies and working in Tech and about the support of his mother during his jouney and how much that was empowering for him.

He shared about some challenges he had encountered and about his learning experience. He talked about his TED talk, Bitcoin experiences and about his business.

 

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#6 The journey of Ujali Tyagi

Ujali is a Software Engineer at Liveintent. 

Ujali shared about her experience studying and working in India, and about her career journey in Dubai and Germany. She shared about some 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 and her life.

We talked about why there are less women in Tech and how this can be changed.

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#5 The journey of Daniel Ciocîrlan

Daniel is a software engineer and the founder of Rock the JVM, the online training resource on Scala, functional programming and everything in the Scala ecosystem.

He's taught more than 42000 engineers and personally trained high-performing teams at Adobe, Apple, Orange and other companies in the US and Europe. He also teaches kids to code, and has reached 22000 kids in 150 countries. Before diving into computer science, Daniel won medals in international physics competitions.

Daniel shared about some of his experience and challenges that he had faced during his studies and working journey.

Rock the JVM: https://rockthejvm.com/

Coder Prodigy: https://coderprodigy.com/

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#4 The Journey of Merlin Göttlinger

Merlin got into Computer Science because computers told him that he should study Computer Science. During his Bachelor and Master studies, he worked for many different companies in different fields using various programming languages. His drive towards optimization brought him to functional programming and eventually got him into working on a PhD thesis in Theoretical Computer Science.

He organize Emacs User Group Meetup in Erlangen, Germany.

https://m-x-erlangen.gitlab.io/

 

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