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back in 2017, a graduate high school. I was, you know, very open with, uh, going on the track of chemistry as a major for college. I went to the University of Illinois at Chicago for a year. I wasn't very happy with where I was at in the career path that I was on, I heard about Dev Code camp. It's a It's a program out of Milwaukee boot camp course for software development. Um, and, you know, that's kind of where I am now, uh, kind of how I got there. Um, you know, I didn't really have ah, technology or ah, technology background. But, um, you know, through a boot camp course, I was able Thio, you know, get a full time software development position at a nice company. MSC data. Um and I'm I'm happy with where I'm at

um, so And this I data, Uh, my main priorities throughout the day are, um, normal bug fixes and product, uh, backlog items, PBS, Um, I also do run Cem load tests for performance testing our A p i servers and database servers. Um, and besides that, you know, I do a little bit of audience here and there, um, building test test suites and frameworks for our internal products. Um, and pretty much anything else that I get thrown it with.pain points. Um, sometimes working with a team or with multiple departments convey be challenging, um, both with people that are on the team and also what responsibilities that team has versus what you ultimately would like to have access to or to roll out into production or things along those lines. Uh, could definitely be some big pain points. Um, top three priorities is you know, you always have to make your customer happy by, you know, fixing Cem high severity bugs. Or, you know, taking some extra time out of your day or out of your night thio debugging issue for ah customer that's having an issue in prod. Um, those air kind of, you know, the biggest priorities besides, you know, finishing up whatever work is in the Sprint getting that through the pipeline and out into production at the end of the day. Um and you know, just really good communication is a good way to get around most of these hurdles. Um, having allowing yourself enough time for that communication is also pretty key being able Thio, you know, say a cloud engineering team is gonna have their own set of priorities throughout a sprint and so does the team that I'm on. And, you know, if we give ourselves enough time at the beginning, before we end up going through that that sprint where we need to implement the work, we can kind of aid and, uh, help our help ourselves with making the time to have that communication.

eso on a day to day basis, I develop in typescript a little bit of JavaScript here and there. I also use Python. Um, and we use a couple couple tools for testing frameworks like Cyprus that I owe. We've also used selenium on a couple of paid products. Like ran Rex. Um, we've used that before. Um, and then, you know, we use dot net framework on bond sequel server. So those were some pretty, pretty main things that you know somebody would have to use on a day to day basis.

on a day to day basis. I work with software engineers, and I work with, um, Cem Bey, I engineers and product management, um, team members and, uh, my direct report, which is my boss. Um, so throughout the day, you know, we have slack channel that we all communicate in. Um, have a morning stand up, work through all the things. I mean, you get through on Ben. No, uh, kind of wrap up and there's anything that's still remaining. You know, people stay online for a while after, and, um, we all kind of just pitch in and get the work done. Um, what approaches are effective with working with them? It kind of goes back to the communication. Um, you know, if you have something that's, ah, pain point as a developer or if you, if there's a guideline or an acceptance criteria that isn't fully defined Before you start working on the ticket or after you start working on the ticket, you know, bring those issues up either to your boss or to the product manager, and, you know, they're only a slack message away. And you know you can You can save yourself tons of time with not implementing a feature that you weren't really supposed to implement and kind of works all the way around with all the people that I work with is really having that good communication. Um, I also work on a day to day basis with Qiwei members. Um and you know, a really good approach to working with Key Way is being able to fail fast. Um, that's definitely one of the biggest takeaways that I've had from them. Um, and failing fast is just, you know, if there's a bug in your code or if, um, you know you're working on a solution and it's not up to spec, you want to be able to catch that air or that bug or something along that line as quick as you can, so that you have the time to re implement and then get back to key way before three end of your sprint before their deadlines. Before you know, more work starts to pile up

uh, in my position, we don't necessarily have defined KP eyes. Um, the only one that we really use is effort points on PBS and Bugs. Um, so between all the developers that we have, we have a good estimate on how much we can get in to a sprint. Based on this summation of all the tickets that Aaron that sprint, Um, based on you know how many how many hours or how maney days there are and how many developers there are. You know, you can kind of break them down to the subsets of who is better at what? Um, but that's primarily our biggest, uh, KP or measurement that we use Onda Sprint. Sprint Velocity is also a big kind of metric that we keep our eye on.

I really enjoy the data aspect of my job. I like having that that connection between, um, you know, say a database and your application. I like the way that the data flows between the two, Um, and a lot of different situations. Um, things that I was pleasantly surprised with is three amount of tools and languages that I learned on the job and that I learned for, um, a job. Um, and just the fact that because I'm learning all these different languages and products and tools and utilities and whatever else, um, you really get to pick up a pattern of how languages have written and how they kind of have the same sort of flow to them. Yeah, this in text, different. Um, but, you know, along the same lines, then Now I can go look at something that I've never written before. Or, you know, reading pseudo code is so much easier to learn and to understand, um, reading other people's documentation on the internet for packages or, um, for extra tooling. Uh, it makes it so much easier reading documentation. Um, all these things are so much easier to conceptualize because I've put in that time that effort because I was happy with where I was at my job, which I think is really surprising to me and is very fulfilling as a developer.

I'm not sure. You know what specifically helped me stand out in my interview? Um, you know, you definitely have to know your material. Um, it's it's not necessarily a test. And quite a lot of it is about culture of the company. Um, but, you know, definitely you need to have some sort of project on a get hub. Or, um, you know, some good references from, um, employees, employers are, you know, co workers that you've you've had before? Um, those could be really big helps. Um, but, you know, down to the end, the day, you know, you just need to be able to prove to your, you know, future employer that you know, your material, that you can, um, solve some complex issues using Cem, uh, some simple on some, a little bit more advanced algorithms or design patterns or, uh, tools. You know, show that willingness to learn. Um, making sure that you show commitment and the work that you're doing, Um, and taking that extra effort to save yourself, You know, a week in the future just because you didn't want Thio. You know, add this little five minute feature in there or something along those lines.

so I can't say that I have any, like, concrete milestones for my career at MSC data. Um, accomplishments, Air. Definitely more personal. Um, at least to me, I guess. Eso I've been on a project for, um, implementing and, uh, identity provider for our clients. Um, which has spent, I don't know, definitely a couple of months. And, you know, that's a huge accomplishment for me. Something that I haven't worked on before. Um, definitely something that is, you know, crucial to our process and our application. Um, and, you know, adding my name to the to the front page of our of our application is definitely a nice puts a nice smile in your face at the end of the day. Um, getting to work with some really nice tools, Uh, specifically in the cloud and, um, using some, you know, kind of outlandish tools and packages toe solve that one use case. Uh, you know, definitely those air. Some of the biggest accomplishments. Um, but, you know, I tend Thio see my accomplishments more from the smaller, smaller aspect of things. I guess

uh So I guess the best way that I could describe this question or the answer to this question is it's very company centric. Eso it really depends on what company you work for. Eso at MSC where currently implementing its a startup company and we're starting thio rollout kind of more, uh, concrete definitions of what East position has, uh, What responsibilities you have, What are your, you know, kind of day to day tasks What the, uh, kind of metrics or kind of review standards that you need to meet, Um, before you can progress on Thio getting a promotion, um, specifically for my job. The next step for me would be to, uh, become more of a senior level developer. Um, she's developer, engineer, you know, kind of along the same lines. Um, but, you know, I don't really see um uh, uh, kind of drawing a blank. Um, you know, in most companies, I could see you are somebody working at the same position for a year to two years. Um, after that, you know, I think that they would most likely be up for a promotion or for a, um, you know, a job switch or, you know, somewhere with more responsibility and more trust and, you know, higher availability across your application

um So before joining the boot camp death code camp, I I definitely had some apprehensions. I had heard. You know, stories about, um uh, some, you know, horror stories of people that have gone through a boot camp course. And, you know, they didn't They didn't excel themselves, or they didn't drive themselves to, um, perfect their craft. Essentially, um, you know, they were taking the course because they wanted to get a in their eyes. Ah, high paying job at, you know, low effort. Um, you know, definitely there's There's a lot of apprehension about it. One, you know, it's it's ah, there's a high cost of entry. Um, and it's a short amount of time. It's not necessarily backed by a credited university or kind of background. So there's a lot of apprehension about, you know, is this is my experience here at a boot camp course. Is this really equivalent to a four year degree at you know, University of Madison or New York State? Or, you know, wherever, um, And after going through Jeffco camp, I still definitely had that apprehension. Um, while I was looking for a job, I was actually extremely lucky on guy got hired the first two weeks that I was out of Dev Co camp s O. That apprehension kind of fled as quickly as it came on initially. Um, but I think that mhm different ways to overcome it. I think the biggest, the biggest way that Aiken, I guess, describe a way to get over kind of that apprehension would be to head side projects and, um, make them the best that you could make them. You know, if you're not a friend in person, yeah, make a make a proxy server or, you know, just make something that is something that you're proud of and something that can solve us solve a problem. And the more that you do that and the better that you get at it, that apprehension is gonna go away slowly, fade over time as you get better and better, and employers will respect you highly, um, for the work that you can dio with, the more practice that you have

So during the boot camp, we used ah, lot of Microsoft products. Um, visual studio running dot net and SP from, uh, SB dot Net and and in the framework Onda we used exclusively sequel server. Um, beyond that, we didn't necessarily use um you know, any frameworks on top of that? Um, we did use a good deal of slack to kind of collaborate between projects on DWI, heavily relied on get get hub, get lab for sharing code and working collaboratively on code. I guess, to answer the second question, Um, how did it help me with networking during the last week of deaf code camp? We did a capstone, which was essentially, it was, ah, week, week long project that we ended up presenting a to our class and be too, and headhunters and some companies in the Milwaukee area, um, they kind of give us a an idea of, you know, um, what they thought of the project that we created. So you spend five weeks or five days on a product and you have somebody that's, you know, either in the market for a product like that, or, um, they're just a company that's looking to see what your talent is. Um, and at the end of that, then we got to meet them and, uh, you know, start networking with them, and that was pretty much the process for that.

death code Camp definitely definitely prepared me for my career. The best part that I think was that Dev Code camp really taught me how to learn and how toe learn effectively the it kind of goes down Thio Yeah, it's pretty much if you're working on a product or ah feature in a company that you're working for for software development position. Ah, you know, other people have their own work to dio. And so at the end of the day, you're gonna have to figure out the solution for yourself, or you're gonna have to ask up kind of your chain of people that you asked to. Um, we kind of have this this similar, uh, way of doing that. Um, at that code camp, Um, yes, definitely pushed me to read documentation and who learn more on my own. Um, that's kind of taught me how toe learn new languages on my own. Um, recently picked up go Lang very happy with my selection there. Uh, and all of the people that was working with were super helpful and friendly. Um, you know, it's it's less of ah, high school project where you've got that one person that's, you know, not going to do the work and slacking off and stuff like that. We're all on teams where everybody had the same goal in mind. And at the end of the day, everybody put in the effort that, um, was required of them and having that that team structure was definitely beneficial. And off the instructors there were super helpful with, um, debugging some issues and giving good lectures and taking the time out of their day stay in after class and helping you understand something if you didn't quite grasp it. Um, everything that they have done, uh, was definitely beneficial. Uh, where I am now.

You know, I really go back Thio, making sure that you take the time to learn new skills. Learn something new every day. Otherwise, you're just gonna get into the same flow that you've always been getting into on board. You're just going to beat yourself out? Andi kind of get run down. Um, that's definitely one of the biggest ones for me, uh, to I go back Thio taking the just taking the extra time to save yourself Time in the future. Uh, spending five more minutes on this one feature can save ah, hours or days from key way or having to re implement the solution. Um, or it could, you know, it could reappear back up, you know, nine months down, down the way. And you're not gonna remember what What you were thinking at that point when you implemented that feature. Um, you know, said that's definitely a life lesson. That kind of really stuck with me. Um, doing code reviews, you know, take the extra five minutes. Thio, do a little exploratory testing because, you know, sure, the feature that you implemented looks correct, and it functions correctly, but how does it affect other pieces? down the line from that feature that you just implemented. Or, uh, did you test all the inputs to that, um, that feature? So the second one, I definitely would say, you know, take take the extra five minutes. Um and then I guess the third one is three exact opposite. You know, um, when you're doing a little bit of research on a ticket or, uh, you know, trying to debug an issue. Um, make sure you give yourself an adequate time box of how much time you're gonna, uh, you're gonna be debugging for researching, um, and to make sure that you stay at that 10,000 ft level because it's so easy to rabbit hole yourself and just dig yourself a larger and larger whole eso you know, definitely The third life lesson is make sure you stay at the 10,000 ft view of your problem or that thing that you're trying to research. Definitely IDs and ah, lot of, uh, problems. Reallycan't say that I really faced adversity. Um, had a lot of, ah, really nice colleagues at Dev Code camp and had some really great instructors. Um, yeah. I mean, I can't I can't think of anything for that.

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