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Vincent Tang & German Gamboa
Looking to expand your skills as a Web Developer? Vincent Tang and German Gamboa break down topics in Javascript, NodeJS, CSS, DevOps, AWS, and career development!
Caleb Mellas is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech lead at Olo, Inc – a billion dollar restaurant company. He’s ran a freelancing business for 3 yrs, went from graphic designer to frontend engineer to full stack engineer and now headed towards engineering manager. One of his favorite opportunities was being one of 8 engineers at a hyper-growth startup called Wisely that 4x’d their revenue and had a 9 figure acquisition.
Hobbies include: music (piano and drums), kayaking, weightlifting, spending time with my 6 yr old kidI live in Orlando, FL, grew up in Chicago.
OutlineIn this talk, Calleb will talk about his experiences and insights as a Tech Lead. These include:
- What brought you into software?
- What were your first roles like and what was your biggest learnings from them.
- How did you grow into a senior eng and team lead.
- How did you end up at Wisely?
- Moving into team lead at a larger org.
- The linkedin influence life: Curious to know your why.
Dessert TimeA cooler segment where we talk about topics not related to the main segment
- Vincent - Tattoo
- Calleb - Learning drums
- German - School life
Social Media* German's Twitter * Vincent's Twitter
Links* Orlando Devs * LinkedIn Caleb Mellas
Andrew is a software developer and engineering manager with a love for building independent apps. He was the CEO of the recipe storage app RecipeBox before it was acquired by emeals.com. He spent the last year at eMeals completing integration duties after his acquisition and serving as Head of Mobile Product for eMeals’ core product.
He’s currently working on his next projects Secret Stash, a secure content storage app, and Mockingbird API, a mock API service that streamlines integration time between frontend and backend teams.
OutlineIn this talk, Andrew will cover what it's like building recipe box. These include these points:
- Ideation
- Learning new skills
- Designing a product and cutting to MVP
- Getting to market quickly
- Finding a partner
- Acquisition process
- What parts of an app to standup (e.g. technical support)
Dessert TimeA cooler segment where we talk about topics not related to the main segment
- Vincent - Tampa Devs retirement
- Andrew - learning how to play piano
- German - Parent leaving and going back to work
Social Media* German's Twitter * Vincent's Twitter
Links* Orlando Devs * Recipe Box * LinkedIn Andrew
We pick back up 2 years later! This covers things we've learned running a software developer community with my co-organizer Charlton Trezevant
FAQ Notes* How did you get started on Tampa Devs Charlton? * What’s your career been like Charlton? * Any challenges either of you two learned along the way? (either person) * Thoughts on sponsors? (either person) * Feel free to add more notes here of things you’d like to be asked
Dessert TimeVincent - Learning SpanishCharlton - Ruby, Ibis AMGerman - Life is getting busier!
Social Media* German's Twitter * Vincent's Twitter * Vincent's Instagram * Jacques' Twitter * Brian's Twitter * Tweet us your thoughts on @codechefsdev
Links* Orlando Devs * Tampa Devs
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