Slides from my talk on becoming a software engineer that I gave at ERŠ Velenje in December 2021 to high-school students.

1. Oto Brglez / @otobrglez
BecomingS/W
Engineer

2. Why?

3. Whynot?

4. Story.

5. EngineeringManager/
ArchitectatGWI.
*Consultant
*R&DLab

6. AudienceInsightsfor
-47+countries
-2.7B+consumers
-4.000+brands
-40.000+attributes

8. Pollpass

10. Backstory
• 6 years in development
• Distributed team of 25+ S/W engineers, 4 countries
• Real-time via WebSockets.
• 10+ failed PoCs/Prototypes (~2-3 PoCs a year)
• 2 ML/AI/Graph based fraud detection systems
• China, Russia, RTL and 11+ languages
• S/W has life cycle
• Custom scripting engine

11. Howdoyoudoit?
•Planning
•Fast prototyping, learning and failing
•Grooming and self-evaluation
•Great people
•Technology
•Passion and love.

12. Seriously?

13. NO.

14. Howdoyoudoit?
•Planning
•Fast prototyping, learning and failing
•Grooming and self-evaluation
•Great people that are very very hard to
fi
nd
•Technology that is hard to master
•Passion, love, money, experience, time and hard work.

15. …butwhy?

17. Toolbox 🧰

18. Curiosity
* Go deeper!

19. Focus
* Signal vs. noise

20. Perseverance
* You will fail! A lot! Most of the time.

21. Community
* You are NOT alone.

22. Passion
* Feed it with success.

23. Isitworthit?

24. Avg 🇸🇮 = 22k EUR
Avg 🇸🇮, Tech = 41k EUR
Avg 🇬🇧, Tech = 115k EUR
Avg 🇺🇸, Tech = 150k EUR

37. Yourtoolbox🧰?
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