#63 Stephanie Hurlburt encourages us to be social techies

20/08/2019 47 min Temporada 2 Episodio 63
#63 Stephanie Hurlburt encourages us to be social techies

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Stephanie first told us about the detours that led her from math, art and political science to computer science. We then discussed her first jobs and her first mentor. We then touched on how she joined Oculus and Unity and their respective interview processes before switching gears and talking about entrepreneurship and her creating her own business. Stephanie was then very open about her technical burn out and explained how she feels it coming back.Stephanie Hurlburt is a graphics engineer and co-founder of Binomial, a software company based in Seattle that makes Basis, a popular image/texture compression product. Among other things, she previously worked on graphics engineering and engine programming at Oculus and Unity.Here are the links of the show:https://stephaniehurlburt.comhttps://twitter.com/sehurlburtGiving Back: The Role of Ethics in Open Source and Online Communities video with Scott Hanselman (@shanselman): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BNSwKNadx4Book recommendations (affiliate links):"Boundaries" by Dr. Henry Cloud & John Townsend: https://amzn.to/2ZnWXcH"Why Does He Do That?" by Lundy Bancroft: https://amzn.to/2Zsgfxx"The body keeps the score" by Bessel van der Kolk https://amzn.to/2LjFKHvCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.Want to be next?Do you know anyone who should be on the podcast? Do you want to be next? Drop me a line: [email protected] or via Twitter @timothep.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading the good word about this podcast. And please leave a rating (excellent of course) on the major podcasting platforms, this is the best way to increase the visibility of the podcast:Apple PodcastsStitcherGoogle PlayThanks!Support the show