Listen "Glen McCallum: From IC to Engineering Manager, and the lessons learned along the way"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, Dan and Bekah talk to Glen McCallum, a Software engineer from Victoria, Canada who manages a team of 8 engineers for the 2nd largest independent book distributor in the US, about his unexpected career journey, the hard decisions he's had to make, and using open-source software with his artificial pancreas. Glen also talks about his near-death experience in his first IT job and the decision to move from Independent Contributor to Management.Glen McCallum is a Software engineer from Victoria, Canada. For the past 7 years he's been doing backend development in C# and SQL. Earlier, he did projects in Java and Rails. He's always learning, currently exploring big data with hadoop, python, and spark. Day-to-day he manages a team of 8 engineers for the 2nd largest independent book distributor in the United States.Sponsor Virtual Coffee!Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help us to continue serving the Virtual Coffee community.Please visit our sponsorship page on GitHub for more information - you can evensponsor an episode of the podcast!Virtual Coffee:Virtual Coffee: virtualcoffee.ioPodcast Contact: [email protected]: dev.to/bekahhw, Twitter:https://twitter.com/bekahhw, Instagram:bekahhwDan: dtott.com, Twitter:@danieltott
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