So you wanna

learn to code, eh?

@brandonb927 

About Me

https://brandonb.io

Product Developer @ Sendwithus

Work

• In-house IT office for 100+ REALTOR®s on VI
• Web development + maintenance for real estate websites in PHP with MySQL
  • Built custom Wordpress build, applied to multiple sites
• Networking + server management
  • Applied Windows server + desktop OS knowledge
  • Linux server management
  • Implemented wireless network auth system

• Real estate website development in custom PHP framework "Caffeine"
• Built and worked on core parts of web apps built in Python
  • QuoteRobot.com
  • Postach.io
• Trips to San Francisco for multiple events
  • Evernote Devcup, took home $20k cheque, gold trophy
  • Evernote Accelerator (1 month)

• Product Developer
  • working on web app UI/frontend
  • dealing directly with customers to build features
• API powered by high-scale, high-throughput systems
  • Hosted on Heroku, services powered by AWS
  • Infrastructure is a mixture of Python and Go
• Working in mixture of legacy and new code
  • Frontend, writing new components in React
  • Backend, ripping out core functions and writing "micro-services" for most new code

Transactional Email + Templating API solution

Provide email marketing solutions for large enterprise companies

Community Engagement:

• Open Source Template Gallery
• Open Source API Clients
• Community Events in Victoria
  • Battlesnake (v3 coming up!)
  • Startup Slam (just completed v3)

Cool Tech

That I Use Daily

Atom Code Editor

• Cross platform
• Hackable

Hyper App

• Cross platform (very soon!)
• Configurable, themable

Insomnia REST Client

• Cross platform
• Manage your API testing, requests, and environments

Built with Javascript!

electron.atom.io

Docker Containers

• Cross platform
• Env/config in code rather than constrained by physical machine

What Makes Docker So Cool?

Demo time!

YYJTech Slack group (http://bit.ly/yyjtechslack)

Startup Job Board (https://goo.gl/tqZxv6)

Careers and Education

More important than any degree!

Side Projects

Checkout my Podcast

Favicon Valley (http://faviconvalley.show)