Agathe's Diary: Recent Episodes
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Agathe's Diary is a podcast for all developers & tech curious - Discover unique devs stories, get insights into their area of expertise, and their community work, open-source projects, and initiatives to continuously improve the tech industry and the devs’ work life.
In this episode, Nathaniel Idahosa talks about his journey into IOS development. It began as a pursuit of knowledge and turned into a full-time career, and now Nathaniel wants to give back! You can check out his YouTube channel or Discord where he aims at inspiring and encouraging developers.
Anna McDougall talks about her journey from a professional marketer to Singing Opera to Junior Software Developer! Anna loves to contribute and share her knowledge with other junior developers through her technical writing and YouTube tutorials. You can find her on YouTube, Twitter and Dev.to.
This week Agathe introduces a new format, where she discusses interesting companies and what it's like to work there as a developer. In this first episode, Agathe talks with Alejandro, the head of engineering at femtasy, a sensual audio platform for females. Alejandro shares femtasy's unique approach in the erotic industry, in which the company is in charge of the full chain production, to ensure great quality.
Mary started her own consulting company (Persea Consulting) and now operates as the Director of Developer Relations for Camunda, an open-source process automation company, while continuing to write, speak, and generally spread the good word on the importance of tech communities.
Aleksandra Gavrilovka’s journey is far from conventional. In this episode, she chats to Agathe about her path from iOS development, to backend development, her life in Macedonia and Germany, and how important community is. Now, Aleksandra is the Director of Women Who Code, Berlin! Hear her story.
In this episode of Agathe’s Diary, Agathe talks to Onalerona Mosimege about her journey in software development, and her dedication to creating a path between Women in Tech and Health Tech in South Africa. This dedication led her to co-found her own non-profit organisation: Indoni Developers!
Raphaël Goncalves is a Senior Software Engineer at Spectrm and a long-time community leader at the Facebook Developer Circle in Berlin. In this episode of Agathe’s Diary, Raphaël shares his start in programming, working with PHP, moving from France to Germany, running developer events and mentorship programs, imposter syndrome, and explains to me what a Backend Chapter Lead is. Raphaël’s very much in sync with the community, so if you’re interested in developer events and mentorship programs, this one’s for you!
Jessica Jordan is a developer at Honeypot, a member of the Ember core team and an experienced public speaker and community evangelist!
In this episode of Agathe’s Diary, Jessica shares her unique journey starting as a student in biology to her first experience with coding to becoming a public figure in the developer community. It’s a hell of a ride — if you’re interested in making a career switch be sure to tune in!