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/ (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/943aa3fd46 (https://mlengineered.ck.page/943aa3fd46) Take the Giving What We Can Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ (https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/) Subscribe to ML Engineered: https://mlengineered.com/listen (https://mlengineered.com/listen) Follow Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI (https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI)

Timestamps: (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 Questions

Links: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended-ebook/dp/B014DUR7L2/ (Never Split the Difference) https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Revised-Kick-Ass-Humanity-ebook/dp/B07P9LPXPT/ (Radical Candor)