Software Developers Journey

By Timothée Bourguignon

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Becoming a software developer is a journey. The Software Developers Journey show is an inspirational podcast for software developers. Every week, a successful software engineer shares their journey and tells us what they learned.


Episode Date
#300 Celebrating a Journey of Connection, Diversity, and Discovery
Apr 09, 2024
#299 John Chan is building on his learning superpower
Apr 02, 2024
#298 Denzil Eden experimented toward AI success
Mar 26, 2024
#297 Brit Myers from Math Major to DevOps & Leadership
Mar 19, 2024
#296 Katherine Lewis from teaching to lifelong learning at LinkedIn
Mar 12, 2024
#295 Elise Carmichael has a challenges-driven career
Mar 05, 2024
#294 Erik Gross from the Navy to seeing life as a collaborative exercise
Feb 27, 2024
#293 Joshua Duffney over-pivoted to success
Feb 20, 2024
#292 Bryan Clayton rolled up his sleeves to code it himself
Feb 13, 2024
#291 Mark Herschberg from ballroom dancing to managing information flow
Feb 06, 2024
#290 Dave Van Beekum brings various talents together to create value
Jan 30, 2024
#289 Sneha Inguva from feeling like an imposter all the way to Netflix
Jan 23, 2024
#288 Steven Schkolne found his balance between art, tech and business
Jan 16, 2024
#287 William Adams is a Silicon Valley legend, a one man coding machine, and an ally
Jan 09, 2024
#286 Brian Childress from geospatial data to fractional CTO
Jan 02, 2024
#284 Valarie Regas from judoka & stay-at-home mum to renowned dev advocate
Dec 19, 2023
#283 Moriel Schottlender from astronomy and physics to architecting Wikipedia
Dec 12, 2023
#282 Chris Simon from electrical engineer to CTO coach
Dec 05, 2023
#281 Cecelia Martinez was a journalist and finance expert missing a jolt of excitation
Nov 28, 2023
#280 Aral Balkan tackling the big world with the Small Web
Nov 21, 2023
#279 Sophie Obomighie chooses to do hard things the hard way
Nov 14, 2023
#278 Coleen Shane is a bad-cop security-expert with a tinfoil hat
Nov 07, 2023
#277 Jodie Burchell from dinos to psychology to data science
Oct 31, 2023
#276 Alexandra Spalato from Actress & pharmacist to business owner & dev
Oct 24, 2023
#275 Cheuk Ting Ho from playing god to living with communities
Oct 17, 2023
#274 Aleksandra Sikora is a serial language learner and open source maintainer
Oct 10, 2023
#273 Ori Keren from passionate dev to having an impact with LinearB
Oct 03, 2023
#272 Anna Sala Mercade from graphic design to saying yes to development
Sep 26, 2023
#271 Una Kravets joining bleeding edge design and coding at Google
Sep 19, 2023
#270 Tejas Kumar between hemophilia, learning and digging deeper
Sep 12, 2023
#269 Lilly Chen from high-school dropout to monk and tech-founder
Sep 05, 2023
#268 Felienne Hermans rethinking how to teach kids to program with Hedy
Aug 29, 2023
#267 Steve Upton from adversarial relationships with devs to QA in high performing teams
Aug 22, 2023
#266 Cory O'Daniel from a suit and a tie to one startup after the other
Aug 15, 2023
#265 Mirjam Aulbach accountant, dog trainer, and senior engineer
Aug 08, 2023
#264 Nnenna Ndukwe driven by curiosity from a tanning salon to dev advocacy
Aug 01, 2023
#263 Phil Alves maker of product-developer teams
Jul 25, 2023
#262 Chris Zimmerman and his story of the Sucker Punch game studio
Jul 18, 2023
#261 Chelsea Troy from ~lacking intellectual firepower~ to rocking at Mozilla
Jul 11, 2023
#260 Sev Huffmann between development at Microsoft and Deaf Culture
Jul 04, 2023
#259 Larysa Visengeriyeva from mind scripts and biases to MLOps
Jun 27, 2023
#258 Lisa Crispin on a journey to define what quality means
Jun 20, 2023
#257 Emmanuel Gaillot componist, psychotherapist, humanist & programmer
Jun 13, 2023
#256 Krisztina Hirth ran away from a boring life
Jun 06, 2023
#255 Tomas Petricek always looking under the covers
May 30, 2023
#254 Marjorie Aubert from nurturing plants to mob programming
May 23, 2023
#253 Mathias Verraes from music to languages and models
May 16, 2023
#252 Diana Montalion from a bookstore to systems thinking
May 09, 2023
#251 Aida Manna went in circles between QA and development
May 02, 2023
#250 Bobbi Towers learned to distrust eloquent speakers
Apr 25, 2023
#249 Claude Jones became the practical leadership guy
Apr 18, 2023
#248 Limor Mekaiten embraced engineering management and mentoring
Apr 11, 2023
#247 Brandon Campbell-Kearns searched for his identity
Apr 04, 2023
#246 Bekah Hawrot Weigel found the power of communities
Mar 28, 2023
#245 Matthew McClure wanted to build tools for developers
Mar 21, 2023
#244 Meshi Yona is a cyber analyst who wanted to try new things
Mar 14, 2023
#243 Nikhil Nandagopal cares deeply about the problems we solve
Mar 07, 2023
#242 Dean Tribble between innovation and reinventing the wheel
Feb 28, 2023
#241 Danny Preussler a GDE who likes having impact
Feb 21, 2023
#240 Chris Ferdinandi from HR professional to vanillajs-guy
Feb 14, 2023
#239 Abhimanyu Saxena from novice CS undergrad to entrepreneur
Feb 07, 2023
#238 Jake Lumetta started and failed many times
Jan 31, 2023
#237 Laila Bougria is learning, growing and having fun
Jan 24, 2023
#236 Hannah Olukoye is a GDE and an Engineering manager
Jan 17, 2023
#235 Jean-Philippe LeBlanc from truck driver to engineering organisations builder
Jan 10, 2023
#234 Dustin DeVries aligning career and life phases
Jan 03, 2023
#233 Oshri Cohen self taught fractional CTO
Dec 20, 2022
#232 Kevin Trethewey on his extreme programming journey
Dec 13, 2022
#231 Amy Wallhermfechtel went from hippie, teacher and historian to software engineer
Dec 06, 2022
#230 Melanie Sumner from psychology and the Navy to webdev and accessibility
Nov 29, 2022
#229 Bill Boulden from ideas to product as a fractional CTO
Nov 22, 2022
#228 Jennifer Wong was not impressed by the civil engineering pace
Nov 15, 2022
#227 Katerina Trajchevska founded her remote workplace
Nov 08, 2022
#226 Jonah Andersson's successful jump from the Philippines to Sweden
Nov 01, 2022
#225 Max Howell from chemistry to homebrew and tea
Oct 25, 2022
#224 Grant Glidewell from substance abuse counselor to web dev
Oct 18, 2022
#223 Adi Polak continuous learner in the big-data space
Oct 11, 2022
#222 Marcy Sutton photo journalist turned web dev and accessibility expert
Oct 04, 2022
#221 Sergey Gorbunov wanted to tackle hard problems
Sep 27, 2022
#220 Tanya Janca from dev to PenTester to purple security expert
Sep 20, 2022
#219 Stephanie Eckles forces herself to push projects out the door
Sep 13, 2022
#218 Christina Hastenrath came to development via forensics and biotech
Sep 06, 2022
#217 Paul McBride from RAF soldier to self-taught web developer
Aug 30, 2022
#216 Shruti Kapoor wanted a home on the internet
Aug 23, 2022
#215 Michael -Geepaw- Hill is a joyful street-geek
Aug 16, 2022
#214 Michael Chan has an unfair advantage - he is a mule!
Aug 09, 2022
#213 Wynn Netherland is a man of APIs and wrappers
Aug 02, 2022
#212 Erin Fox is an introvert who loves speaking at conferences
Jul 26, 2022
#211 Christos Matskas dreamt of becoming a hacker
Jul 19, 2022
#210 Glaucia Lemos reached her dream of working in tech
Jul 12, 2022
#209 Ingrid Epure is a self defined generalist
Jul 05, 2022
#208 Arpit Mohan is running on builder's high
Jun 28, 2022
#207 Maia Grotepass embraced a world of puzzles
Jun 21, 2022
#206 Carl Alexander has a lifelong hate for coding interviews
Jun 14, 2022
#205 Eve Porcello revolves around teaching
Jun 07, 2022
#204 Scott Ford is a software mender
May 31, 2022
#203 Jess Archer found her people in the Laravel community
May 24, 2022
#202 Swizec Teller wanted to work on silicon valley blockbusters
May 16, 2022
#201 Wajahat Karim finally came to love Android
May 09, 2022
#200 It's a Milestone
May 03, 2022
#199 Carl Franklin is looking beyond what he can do
Apr 26, 2022
#198 Laura González slowly YOLOed her way to success
Apr 19, 2022
#197 Holden Karau wanted to change something in the world
Apr 12, 2022
#196 Aran Khanna wanted a shorter feedback loop
Apr 05, 2022
#195 Dagna Bieda wanted to create the future
Mar 29, 2022
#194 Ségolène Alquier wanted to learn that coding magic
Mar 22, 2022
#193 Nicolas Carlo enabler of human connections
Mar 15, 2022
#192 Julianna Lamb is running headfirst into challenges
Mar 08, 2022
#191 Carly Richmond from individual contributor to MAMAger and back
Mar 01, 2022
#190 Laurie Barth learns and teaches with use-cases instead of jargon
Feb 22, 2022
#189 Rich Haines went from screenplays to technical writing
Feb 15, 2022
#188 Luce Carter was saved by software development
Feb 08, 2022
#187 Michael Levan learned to detect when he is not learning anymore
Feb 01, 2022
#186 Suze Shardlow from marketing and the police to simply creating
Jan 25, 2022
#185 Scott Spence from VBA Analyst to webdev
Jan 18, 2022
#184 Sydney Lai web3 code-switching sociologist
Jan 11, 2022
#183 Karl Hughes from mechanical engineering to self taught dev, technical writer and CEO
Jan 04, 2022
It's the end of season 4 as we know it!
Dec 28, 2021
#182 Tom Cools and how he fell in love with Jaba
Dec 21, 2021
#181 Madison Kanna from college dropout to successful self-taught UI-Engineer
Dec 14, 2021
#180 April Speight in her own lane from design to advocacy
Dec 07, 2021
#179 Adrian Colyer went from developer to living under constant jet lag and back
Nov 30, 2021
#178 Aviv Ben-Yosef is a tech leader who went through a lifelong experience pressure cooker
Nov 23, 2021
#177 Zachary Powell is a freelancer who found out that working in an office is not a bad thing
Nov 16, 2021
#176 Sebastien Stormacq was a developer advocate before the term even existed
Nov 09, 2021
#175 Christina Holland tried to avoid software development by going into biotech and animation
Nov 02, 2021
#174 Rotem Zifroni is the future founder of a social startup
Oct 26, 2021
#173 Susan Potter from distributed systems to functional verification
Oct 19, 2021
#172 Steve Gordon is the world's most honest interviewee
Oct 12, 2021
#171 Emma Bostian is a software engineer at Spotify and an asynchronous mentor
Oct 05, 2021
#170 Kadi Kraman doesn't want to be anyone's boss
Sep 28, 2021
#169 Amarachi Amaechi went from accounting to writing about her developer career
Sep 21, 2021
#168 Shannon Kendall quit acting to follow a new creative dream
Sep 14, 2021
#167 Jenn Creighton went from paralegal to developing for Netflix
Sep 07, 2021
#166 Helen Scott found her itch in technical writing and content creation
Aug 31, 2021
#165 Grace Jansen on bees and reactive systems
Aug 24, 2021
#164 Sandra Ahlgrimm pushed the boundaries
Aug 17, 2021
#163 Layla Porter was led to coding by her horse riding and personal coaching business
Aug 10, 2021
#162 Mark Noonan from roadie to accessibility problem solver
Aug 03, 2021
#161 Russ Miles is now a professional chaos monkeys tamer
Jul 27, 2021
#160 Amir Sadoughi built his career on curiosity
Jul 20, 2021
#159 Ryan Hamblin is an experiential learner
Jul 13, 2021
#158 Kara Luton went from ballet and public relations to developer
Jul 06, 2021
#157 Shahid Iqbal from drug design to software development
Jun 29, 2021
#156 Clare Sudbery surfing on her own imposter syndrome
Jun 22, 2021
#155 Sandra Parsick from QA-Engineer to Java-Champion
Jun 15, 2021
#154 Anand Safi is setting people up for success
Jun 08, 2021
#153 Clifford Agius is a developer flying a Boeing 787 for fun
Jun 01, 2021
#152 Shawn Wang from the "fine I'll do it myself" team
May 25, 2021
#151 Chris Coyier from ceramics to CSS-Tricks and CodePen
May 18, 2021
#150 Ryan Bergman loves terrible code
May 11, 2021
#149 Leticia Portella started with MATHLABianesque Python
May 04, 2021
#148 Bryan Beecham cares about people
Apr 27, 2021
#147 Caitlyn Greffly rationalized her way into development
Apr 20, 2021
#146 Miguel Piedrafita is a 19 years old indie maker
Apr 13, 2021
#145 Darko Meszaros the utilitarian developer
Apr 06, 2021
#144 How to not find a problem? Format experiment: "Tales of DevJourney"
Mar 30, 2021
#143 Bert Jan Schrijver took his career into his own hands
Mar 23, 2021
#142 Lior Bar Yosef is a network analyst in a world of puzzles
Mar 16, 2021
#141 Freya Holmér a level-designer turned game-developer
Mar 09, 2021
#140 Matt Biilmann discovered the JAMStack
Mar 02, 2021
#139 Mark Rendle is a programmer turned comedian turned programmer
Feb 23, 2021
#138 Kristy-Leigh Minehan almost burned seeking a crypto highscore
Feb 16, 2021
#137 Nadia Zhuk from 0 to crossing the Rubycon
Feb 09, 2021
#136 Dotan Nahum on building your own toolbox
Feb 02, 2021
#135 Emily Robinson making sense of data science for us
Jan 26, 2021
#134 Amiti Uttarwar is a hands-on Bitcoin-core tinkerer
Jan 19, 2021
#133 Dennis Traub failed his way to success
Jan 12, 2021
#132 Evangelina Ferreira challenges you to take every opportunity
Jan 05, 2021
How to end the 3rd season of DevJourney?
Dec 29, 2020
#131 Wesley Faulkner is a native developer advocate
Dec 22, 2020
#130 Natalia Tepluhina a DBA turned Vue.js-expert at Gitlab
Dec 15, 2020
#129 Jackie Luo is interested in the impact of tech on society
Dec 08, 2020
#128 Paula Gearon was searching for machines that can think
Dec 01, 2020
#127 Emmanuel Bernard fell into open-source
Nov 24, 2020
#126 Ev Haus: animator, programmer, manager
Nov 17, 2020
#125 Alice Goldfuss is digging deeper
Nov 10, 2020
Special Episode - US Election Day 2020
Nov 03, 2020
#124 Edidiong Asikpo put herself out there
Oct 27, 2020
#123 Patrick Leblanc didn't want to ruin his passion
Oct 20, 2020
#122 Ines Montani brought linguistic and computers together
Oct 13, 2020
#121 Kathryn Erickson on leadership and asking for help
Oct 06, 2020
#120 Sumana Harihareswara is an open-source fairy
Sep 29, 2020
#119 Virginia Harrison is following her gaming dream
Sep 22, 2020
#118 Erik Rasmussen connects the dots of his career
Sep 15, 2020
#117 Roopak Venkatakrishnan's career algorithm
Sep 08, 2020
#116 Scott Tolinski from allrounder to allrounder
Sep 01, 2020
#115 Aimee Knight applied the discipline of figure-skating to DevOps and architecture
Aug 25, 2020
#114 Jamon Holmgren made his own independent way
Aug 18, 2020
#113 Brendan O'Leary from healthcare to Gitlab
Aug 11, 2020
#112 Dan Moore from sci-fi to devrel
Aug 04, 2020
#111 Sam Julien from financial adviser to developer advocate
Jul 28, 2020
#110 Jerome Hardaway is the definition of willpower
Jul 21, 2020
#109 Coraline Ada Ehmke lives up to her values
Jul 14, 2020
#108 Cassidy Williams loves developer experience
Jul 07, 2020
#107 Josh Long found his place in the world as a developer advocate with the Spring team
Jun 30, 2020
#106 Kyle Shevlin from pastor to programmer
Jun 23, 2020
#105 Sara Vieira is opinionated per design
Jun 16, 2020
#104 Jason Lengstorf successfully bet on himself for his career
Jun 09, 2020
#103 Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back
Jun 02, 2020
#102 Jen Luker is a relentless accessibility advocate
May 26, 2020
#101 Jeff Haynie on thinking under pressure, contracting and entrepreneurship
May 19, 2020
#100 Tim Bourguignon is a guest on his own show
May 12, 2020
#99 Anjana Vakil mastered her debilitating curiosity
May 05, 2020
#98 Doug Arcuri is curious & learning, always!
Apr 28, 2020
#97 Joe Drumgoole's life as a great software developer NPC
Apr 21, 2020
#96 Dylan Beattie THE Rockstar Programmer
Apr 14, 2020
#95 Lara Martin learned her way from biologist to Flutter GDE
Apr 07, 2020
#94 Michael Kennedy almost learned Python in the 90s
Mar 31, 2020
#93 Guilherme Rambo found his joy in coding for Mac/iOS
Mar 24, 2020
#92 Tracy Lee is having fun all the way
Mar 17, 2020
#91 Harald Reingruber is embarking on a coding tour
Mar 10, 2020
#90 Khaled Souf learned the value of creating value
Mar 03, 2020
#89 Hadelin de Ponteves is a data scientist and an entrepreneur
Feb 25, 2020
#88 Lydia Hallie is a web dev following her passion
Feb 18, 2020
#87 Denise Gosnell is working at the bleeding edge of data science
Feb 11, 2020
#86 Jamison Dance implores you to be nice to other people
Feb 04, 2020
#85 Shedrack Akintayo a web developer from Nigeria
Jan 28, 2020
#84 Molly Struve, an aerospace engineer trading in SRE
Jan 21, 2020
#83 Reuven Lerner had his career all planned out?
Jan 14, 2020
#82 Pariss -Athena- Chandler learns jumping in with both feet first
Jan 07, 2020
Season 2 Finale
Dec 31, 2019
#81 Richard Campbell is simply adding value
Dec 24, 2019
#80 Joseph Young, code & music composer and conductor
Dec 17, 2019
#79 Ted Young & Java, a love story?
Dec 10, 2019
#78 Bubunyo Nyavor is the mentor he never had
Dec 03, 2019
#77 Dave Smith swings the pendulum
Nov 26, 2019
#76 Wes Bos was born a teacher
Nov 19, 2019
#75 David Hirschfeld had a long, eventful career (sofar)
Nov 12, 2019
#74 Kemdi Ebi is thriving on products
Nov 05, 2019
#73 Kai König about simplicity and aesthetics
Oct 29, 2019
#72 Katrina Owen, one little piece at a time
Oct 22, 2019
#How to help me grow DevJourney?
Oct 20, 2019
#71 Irwin Williams found his perfect spot
Oct 15, 2019
#70 Jeeva Nadarajah's life of serendipity
Oct 08, 2019
#69 Aisha Blake's DevJourney should be a musical
Sep 30, 2019
#68 Greg Koberger finally built his one dream
Sep 24, 2019
#67 Kapunahele Wong's kindness as a practice
Sep 17, 2019
#66 Rob Kendal is not afraid to try
Sep 10, 2019
#65 Woody Zuill brings people together who should be working together
Sep 03, 2019
#64 Guillermo Rauch learned with communities
Aug 27, 2019
#63 Stephanie Hurlburt encourages us to be social techies
Aug 20, 2019
#62 How Llewellyn Falco brought the joy of programming back in his life
Aug 13, 2019
#61 Elissa Shevinsky felt into Security
Aug 06, 2019
#60 Trisha Gee owns her career
Jul 30, 2019
#59 Julie Moronuki a linguist turned Haskell expert
Jul 23, 2019
#58 Robby Russell succeeds being selfless
Jul 15, 2019
#57 Adam Barr roots for more humility
Jul 09, 2019
#56 Magnus Stahre is not supposed to know it all, and neither are we!
Jul 02, 2019
#55 Yehuda Katz on how framework design influences communities
Jun 25, 2019
#54 Dave Rael was chosen by the .NET technology stack, not the other way around
Jun 18, 2019
#53 Brian Pontarelli thinks like a customer
Jun 10, 2019
#52 Charity Majors encourages us to strive, going back and forth between roles
Jun 03, 2019
#51 Ben Orenstein advises us not to worry too much
May 27, 2019
#50 Saron Yitbarek, founder of CodeNewbie, celebrates the power of code and communities
May 21, 2019
#49 Ali Spittel works at the crossroads of development, teaching and communities
May 13, 2019
#48 Shawn Wildermuth encourages us to make decisions no matter what
May 06, 2019
#47 Erik St. Martin is comfortable with the struggle
Apr 29, 2019
#46 Barry Dorrans is a curmudgeon telling us it is OK to be wrong
Apr 22, 2019
#45 April Wensel encourages us to get in touch with our core values
Apr 08, 2019
#44 Jeremy Likness became a developer through the backdoor and loved it
Mar 26, 2019
#43 Patrick Kua on being a consultant, a tech lead, a CTO and helping people grow
Mar 12, 2019
#42 Charlie Gerard is learning by building (MANY) projects on the side
Feb 26, 2019
#41 Simon Harrer on strong opinions loosely held
Feb 12, 2019
#40 Ignacio Anaya on discovering your valuable skills
Jan 29, 2019
#39 Harry Roberts and his journey toward freelancing
Jan 15, 2019
#38 Ryan Latta from one extreme to the next
Jan 01, 2019
#37.5 Special Episode on what we learned in 2018
Dec 25, 2018
#37 Darren Hoehna, "That Programming Guy", on getting experience no matter what!
Dec 18, 2018
#36 Rob Allen on persuasion instead of authority
Dec 04, 2018
#35 Emily Bache on maximizing career for family, hobbies and making a difference in the world
Nov 20, 2018
#34 Richard Rodger on software development as a resource allocation problem
Nov 04, 2018
#33 Markus Harrer on being open for new things
Oct 21, 2018
#32 Katharine Jarmul on being driven & focused on what you can do
Oct 08, 2018
#31 Mario Rogic on absorbing and communicating as much as you can
Sep 24, 2018
#30 Adrian Bolboaca on choosing the appropriate tool for the job at hand
Sep 09, 2018
#29 Steven Schwenke on soft skills that one cannot "simply download"
Aug 26, 2018
#28 Arnaud Porterie on putting the right people together in the right context to see the right things happen
Aug 12, 2018
#27 Jessica Kerr on public speaking, networking and the problems of mentoring
Jul 29, 2018
#26 Anne Cahalan on moving out of Junior-Developerness
Jul 15, 2018
#25 Sia Ghassemi on segways that lead exactly where you needed to be
Jul 05, 2018
#24 Daniel Marbach on failure, remoteness and mentoring
Jun 28, 2017
#23 Laura Savino on languages and public speaking
Jun 13, 2017
#22 Rob Napier on interviewing and asking questions
May 14, 2017
#21 David Tanzer on craftmanship and the need for coaching
Apr 30, 2017
#20 Ivo Vutov on growing into Microsoft as a student partner
Apr 14, 2017
#19 Manuela Rink on being an iOS developer evangelist at Microsoft
Apr 04, 2017
#18 Kevin Keller on living the digital nomad way of life
Jan 22, 2017
#16 Damien Beaufils on the test pyramide
Jun 06, 2016
#15 NCrafts Organizers Rui Carvalho, Maxime Sanglan & Peter Even on organizing a software conference
May 31, 2016
#13 JB Rainsberger on what it means to truly be agile
May 09, 2016
#12 Jens Schauder on open-source software development
May 02, 2016
#11 Nicole Rauch on the coding tour to learn and grow
Apr 11, 2016
#10 Agata Bres & Adam Nowakowski on taking a break
Mar 21, 2016
#8 Louise Elliott on dealing with people
Feb 26, 2016
#7 Benjamin Reitzammer on caring, in every sense of the word
Feb 18, 2016
#5 Amitai Schleier on buying your freedom to do what you like
Feb 11, 2016