Stand out from the herd
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The document provides advice to stand out from others in the tech field. It suggests focusing on online presence through LinkedIn, blogs, and homepages. It also recommends improving skills in areas like DevOps, Agile methodologies, business, and learning through personal projects. The overall message is to keep learning, collaborate widely, and be someone others would enjoy working with.
Stand out from the herd
- 1. Stand out from the herd
- 2. $ whoami 10+ years of key punching Community involved People person Management oriented CTO Zyrcle @OrestesCA orestes.ca@gmail.com
- 3. Zyrcle 8 people app-centric startup ● Backed by ENISA ● Pre-selected for Lanzadera ● Attending Startup Next by Google for Entrepreneurs ● Starting Embarca / Catalunya Startups ● Competing at Sonar 2015
- 4. why?
- 5. disclaimer
- 6. Not uncommon Tech/stack specialists “gangs” Tunnel vision Disregarding by default Prone to conflict https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454
- 7. Work experience: ● 30% 2-5 years ● 20% less than 2 years Education: ● 41% self-taught ● 60% works side-projects less than 5 hours/week Community: forums, conferences, meetups http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015 Influences
- 8. The gaps Online presence/visibility LinkedIn Tech blog Medium stories Homepage
- 9. The gaps English International teams Telecommuting gigs Getting into a tech hub
- 10. The gaps DevOps Set up your tech stack SCM includes infrastructure Virtualization and containers are so hot
- 11. The gaps Agile Scrum/XP Leading roles manage process You already have technical prowess
- 12. The gaps Business Lean Startup/Analytics Intrapeneurs are very valuable
- 13. Learning Pet project Official docs, tutorials Noteworthy projects, common use cases Conferences Local user groups
- 14. Be the change that you wish to see in the world Don’t limit yourself or others Collaborate in other areas Question assumptions Provide objective arguments Keep learning
- 15. be someone you’d like to work with thanks!
- 16. References: The Interpreter http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the- interpreter-2 Kyle Simpson - You Don’t Know JS https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS