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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

And took some very winding paths to my first job writing code, which I think I started doing in about 2006. And then I saw a presentation, actually about the same time, maybe around 2005-2006. It starts with dropping out of college and working at a newspaper for five years, doing desktop publishing. The University of Toronto.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a big cultural shift! To help change the engineering culture, weve defined a lot of skills around communication and teamwork. A new engineer is expected to participate actively in team conversations. As a reminder, what Im trying to do here is to change the engineering culture at my company.