Kathyleen Beveridge

“My mission in life is not to survive, but to thrive and to do so with some passion, compassion and some humor and some style”

Finance Management

HP: Create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere Qualcomm: Inventing the tech the world loves Thermo Fisher Scientific: Enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer

All of these companies provide service and product for others, make a macro impact on people

Job is similar to a scrum master’s, project management is just as important as creating and providing the product

Kris Porter

Software Engineer, SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure engineer

Center for Embedded Networked Sensors

DevOps = deploying software, making sure everything is in place and prevent hackers from hacking their sites and databases Helped create streaming media infrastructure for NBC Worked at Qualcomm (2014- 2020) dealt with a lot of analytic infrastructure projects and continued his DevOps Just started to work at Twitter (2021-) and worked on projects like new DataCenter Deployment and migrating homeTimeline to Graph QL

Continuous learning = COOL

CCNA Training, computer networking
Machine Learning and Deep Learning (Qualcomm)
Self taught Python
Multiple courses at Twitter

Questions

Agile Methodology: Always working together and creating a roadmap to communicate with each other on what needs to be done and how it can be accomplished
Important skill to have in the tech industry?
- CONTINUOUS LEARNING!!! Learning programing languages, infrastructure, etc.
- Don’t be concerned about what’s on in the news, focus on what you can learn and how you can provide for the company
- Adapt to the work enviornment, not all work environments are the same
- Listen to others and the requirements, and use that to create their technology
Biggest challenges in the tech industry for them?
- Semi conductor (qualcomm), went through aquisition of other companies. Adapt quickly and learn from your mistakes so that it won’t happen again and grow as a person and company
- Being able to learn quickly, different companies have different ways of doing their own things
Work life balance
- Completely different for everyone, create a schedule out of it
How does code would help in non-software engineering jobs?
- Way of thinking, way of looking at a problem and finding a solution to it. Problem solving and thinking methodically
Intersted in learning right now
- More about web 3 (blockchain technology, aws, google cloud)