How Do Engineer?

Mitch Masia

A day in the life, some worthwhile advice

Hexient Labs

Who?

Mitch Masia

Hexient Labs

React ATL

GitHub

Connect.Tech

Background

Started coding Junior Year HS (2011)

Computer Engineering @Vandy (2016)

Internships

LoadUp Technologies

Hexient Labs (+Talkrise)

MeetupS + Conferences

Taskloop

Self-Teaching

Udemy

Codeacademy

Javascript

80-20

Education

I got absolutely smoked

What they teach

What you should know

fundamentals

Build things

Go deep

Internships

All about relationships

Young, say yes

Turning Point

Taskloop

$2,000

Non-trivial

3rd-party APIs

Legal, Marketing, Accounting, Business

Loadup technologies

Funded Startup

1st Employee

Coding Interview

Bought. Not sold.

Confidence

We were naive

Hexient + Talkrise

Partner

Work-life balance

domain expertise

Trustworthiness

Skill > Marketing

Hexient + Talkrise

Partner

Work-life balance

domain expertise

Trustworthiness

Skill > Marketing

Community

Blog

Meetups

Connect.tech

Actual Advice

Learn Data Structures

Go Deep (non-trivial)

Deploy something

Get a GitHub

Get a Mentor

❤️ Terminal

Do exercism

Value your time ($)

80-20

Thanks + Questions?

Resources

S/O Developer Survey

Developer Skills