Career Hacking - Exploring Your Way to a Fun Job in Open Source Technology
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My tale of how I used open source and the web to get nearly every tech job I've ever had.
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Career Hacking - Exploring Your Way to a Fun Job in Open Source Technology
- 1. CAREER HACKING EXPLORING YOUR WAY TO A FUN JOB IN OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY. Dietrich Ayala, March 30, 2016 Epicodus, Portland OR
- 3. I’VE BEEN AT MOZILLA FOR ALMOST OVER TEN YEARS. I’VE SHIPPED SOFTWARE TO HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. BUT…
- 4. I STARTED HERE: BARBIECAKE.COM
- 5. THAT WEBSITE WAS SHUT DOWN BY MATTEL CORPORATION. BUT IT GOT ME MORE JOBS! (AND MY FIRST THREAT OF LAWSUIT)
- 6. TIP #1 PUBLISH. PUBLISH. PUBLISH.
- 7. I TOOK A LOW-PAYING WEBMASTER JOB.
- 8. “WEBMASTER” DUTIES AT SUB POP: * LINUX (DEBIAN, REDHAT, SLACKWARE) ADMIN * MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER ADMIN * WRITE INVENTORY SOFTWARE * MEDIA PUBLISHING AND ARCHIVING * WEBSITE THE EVERYTHING * ALL EMPLOYEE DESKTOP IT SUPPORT * E-COMMERCE SOFTWARE * ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE INTEGRATION
- 9. I LEARNED A LOT.
- 10. TIP #2 START SMALL. LEARN BIG.
- 11. LET’S TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT…
- 12. WHILE DOING PAYMENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION, I HEARD ABOUT “SOAP”. SOAP IS XML MESSAGES PASSED BETWEEN COMPUTERS. I IMPLEMENTED SOAP FOR FUN IN PHP. BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY LANGUAGE I KNEW. I PUBLISHED IT AS OPEN SOURCE ON SOURCEFORGE*. (* ANCIENT GITHUB PRE-CURSOR)
- 13. PUBLISHING MY SOFTWARE AS OPEN SOURCE GOT ME THREE JOBS AND A BOOK CHAPTER.
- 14. THEY CAME TO ME.
- 15. TIP #3 OPEN SOURCE YOUR CODE.
- 17. I WAS AT YAHOO. MY PROJECT WAS A SUCCESS. BUT I WAS EXPERIMENTING IN THE NIGHT…
- 18. I WROTE AN ADD-ON FOR FIREFOX 1.5. +
- 19. I PUBLISHED MY ADD-ON. A FEW MONTHS LATER, MOZILLA CONTACTED ME TO SEE IF I WANTED TO WORK ON FIREFOX.
- 20. TIP #4 FOLLOW YOUR INTERESTS. SERIOUSLY.
- 21. AFTER THAT INITIAL EMAIL… 3 PHONE SCREENS… 7 ON-SITE INTERVIEWS… A BUNCH OF PAPERWORK… AND A TOTAL OF 5 MONTHS TIME… I BEGAN WORKING AT MOZILLA.
- 22. TIP #5 HIRING TAKES A LONG TIME.
- 23. OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS… I WORKED ON FIREFOX, ADD-ONS, FIREFOX OS AND MORE. I WAS A MANAGER. I WAS A PROJECT MANAGER. I WAS A TECHNICAL LEAD.
- 24. I AM AN EVANGELIST.
- 25. BEING AN EVANGELIST MEANS… SPEAKING AND WRITING ADVOCATING FOR DEVELOPERS GUIDING PRODUCT DEV EXPERIMENTING WITH NEW TECH HELPING OTHERS SPEAK AND WRITE
- 26. VIRTUAL REALITY ON THE WEB
- 27. WEB & IOT RASPBERRY PI
- 28. VAANI MACHINE LEARNING SPEECH RECOGNITION ON THE WEB
- 29. ONGOING PROJECTS… CODE SCHOOLS (HI!) TECH COMMUNITIES IN ASIA SUPPORTING STAFF EVANGELISTS MOZILLA TECH SPEAKERS PROGRAM MOZILLA FESTIVAL AND OTHER FOUNDATION EFFORTS
- 30. THANK YOU.