Using Reflection

Show Notes Topics: COBOL, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Mainframes, Mentoring, .NET, Software Engineering, Teamwork, Team Leaderhsip Companies: ThomsonReuters Introduction In this episode we are joined by Joe Cavanaugh, programmer analyst for Thomson Reuters. Joe describes a journey that started with working on mainframe COBOL programs written the year he was born and evolved to leading dev ops efforts for a company division. Along the way, Joe has helped start and grow a mentoring program, gained insights about the connection between a team’s maturity and the maturity of its processes and product, and learned about craftsmanship by comparing his woodworking skills to those of his grandfather. Guest Bio Joe Cavanaugh is a Software Engineer with Thomson Reuters, a company which provides the intelligence, technology and human expertise you need to find trusted answers. He is leading the company’s efforts to provide a better Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery experience. Joe previously was

Show Notes Topics: EdTech, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Managing Engineers, Social Responsibility, Teamwork, Team Leaderhsip Companies: Amplify Wireless Generation Introduction In this episode we are joined by Aaron Harnly, CTO of Amplify New Curriculum, for a thoughtful conversation circling around many aspects of simplicity and complexity in Computer Science and software engineering. If programs describe how we can arrive at answers, can they adequately model complex real-world processes, like a literacy coach teaching a child to read? Can we in turn contain and explain the complexity of software applications built up over time from many such models, meeting many different requirements? When can dead- simple regression models provide more value than models with thousands of features? Aaron also opens up about his own experiences, describing how an agile transformation transformed his own career, and how his approach to team communication and his contributions to team success have changed a

Show Notes Topics: Meditation, Mentoring, Python, Recruiting, Software Engineering, Teamwork, Team Leadership, Trust, Zen Buddhism Companies: MongoDB Wireless Generation Projects: Motor PyMongo Introduction In this episode we are joined by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, Python contributor and staff engineer at MongoDB. It’s a fun, insightful conversation touching on the dearth of mentorship in tech, differences in mindset when contracting vs. being on staff, the subtle and evolving effectiveness of long-lived teams, and the effect of Jesse’s Zen Buddhist practice on his approach to engineering. Guest Bio A. Jesse Jiryu Davis is a staff engineer at MongoDB in New York City. He’s the lead developer of the MongoDB C Driver libraries, libbson and libmongoc, and the author of Motor, an async MongoDB driver written in Python for Tornado and asyncio. With Guido van Rossum he co-authored “A Web Crawler With asyncio Coroutines”, a chapter in the “500 Lines or Less” book in the Architecture of Open Source A

Show Notes Topics: Continuous Delivery, Managing Engineers, Meditation, Social Responsibility, Software Engineering, Teamwork, Team Leadership Companies: Headspace Wireless Generation Introduction In this episode we are joined by Eli Goodman, lead platform engineer at Headspace. Eli discusses his desire to have world-changing impact, and the responsibility that he feels comes with the privilege of being an engineer in this era of small teams able to touch millions of lives. We also go deep on how perceptions of time shape a team’s approach to productivity, and examine the many facets and subtle psychology of truly “continuous” continuous delivery. Guest Bio Eli Goodman is a lead platform engineer at Headspace. Previously, he was the CTO of Union Station and a Director of Engineering at Etsy. In his non- computer time, he’s way into ecstatic dance, hiking, visual art, and plants. He lives in Los Angeles with his kitten, Benji. Credits Host: Mark S. Weiss Intro and Outro Music: “Florida Song