Devon Bernard: "If you can sell it, I can build it"

29/09/2020 1h 42min Episodio 6
Devon Bernard: "If you can sell it, I can build it"

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Devon Bernard is an incredible full-stack engineer, manager, and entrepreneur. He's co-founded multiple companies including FlowActive, Jowl, and Rollio in addition to holding top engineering roles at Enlitic, Axgen, and now Somml.Learn more about Devon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonbernard/Want to level-up your skills in machine learning and software engineering? Subscribe to our newsletter: https://mlengineered.ck.page/943aa3fd46Take the Giving What We Can Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/Subscribe to ML Engineered: https://mlengineered.com/listenFollow Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAITimestamps:(00:00) Intro(02:00) How he got started in CS(03:03) Working for GOOG and MSFT while running 2 startups(05:10) Learning to program(10:25) How he got started in entrepreneurship(17:30) Building an animal crossing trading exchange(21:37) Designing scalable and maintainable backends(25:55) Does he use formal design methods (DDD)?(28:24) What makes for a great engineer?(36:43) Functional programming(39:43) Increasing productivity of engineering teams(45:56) Managing up as an individual contributor(49:59) Consulting advice(01:04:20) Health-tech startups(01:19:27) Exciting opportunities outside of healthcare(01:28:34) Rapid Fire QuestionsLinks:Never Split the DifferenceRadical Candor

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