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#16 The Journey of Jorge Vásquez
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Jorge is a software engineer at Scalac, mostly focused on the backend. He's had the chance to work with several technologies and programming languages across different industries, such as Telco, AdTech, Streaming and Online Education. Also, he loves Functional Programming, especially in Scala.
In this episode Jorge shared about his journey during his career path since his studies. He studied Telecommunication Engineering at university, at the same time he got interested into programming and he was learning different programming languages until he found a job that enabled him to use his software development knowelegde in real life to solve real World problems and to develop his skills.
Jorge shared about different challenges that he had faced and about the steps that helped him to get closer to his dream job.
Learn more about his inspiring journey and listen to the full episode!
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00:00 - Introduction
02:38 - How he developed his passion for programming
03:44 - His education path and his progress on learning different programming languages
09:05 - His first job in software development field
14:51 - The challenges he faced that helped him to grow
16:20 - His experience as a former teacher at university
19:55 - Teaching and empathy
22:45 - His second job in Tech and the challenges he had faced
33:45 - How he got the job at Scalac
39:11 - About his work in the community (talks and blog posts)
43:11 - His experience to make an online course
45:17 - The importance to make accessible content that consider beginners
47:00 - About remote work
53:24 - Advice
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