Notes

  • Katherine
    • She was born in Vietnam
    • She moved to San Fran in 2004
      • Then San Diego
    • Recieved finance degree
    • MBA at USC
    • She was a finance major which made her an investment banker
      • She didn't like it
    • She twitched to high tech degree
      • She learned how to surf
    • Shw worked for qualcom
    • HP INC
      • Create technology that makes life better for everyone everywhere
    • Qualcomm
      • Inventing the tech the world loves
    • Thermo Fisher Scientific
      • Enable our cutomers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer
      • 125000 employees
      • 7000 R and D Scientists
      • $1.5B invested into R and D
      • $40B in revenue
    • She loves high tech
      • She uses the service a lot which makes it more interesting
      • It was more for her than investment banking
    • She likes how you can take a concept and build it
  • Kris Porter
    • Software Engineer
      • SRE, DevOps, Infastructure
    • Livermore High School alum
    • He liked STEM
    • Went to UCLA for electrical engineering
    • Master's degree in mechanical enginnering at Cal State LA
    • He failed his first Comp Sci class
    • Center for Embedded Netwrked Sensors
      • Networked infomechanical systems Introduced to the linux operating systems, software sevelopment life cycle
    • Finished Graduate school, stock market, had crashed
      • Hard to find job
    • NBC universal straming media infastruture
    • Intro to DevOps, transition to Qualcomm
    • Working at twitter
    • He set up streaming platforms for Olympics
    • CCNA training
    • Machine learning and deep learing (Qualcomm)
    • Python (Udmey)
    • Data structures, algortithms
    • Projects
      • Streaming media infacsturcture for the 2012 Olympic Games
      • Analytics infastructure projects LocationSmart, Qualcomm
      • Twitter
        • New DataCenter Deployment
        • Migrating HomeTimeline to GraphQL
  • Different companies use different methodolgy in different ways depending on their purpose
  • Agile methodolgy is very important in todays market because of the high demand and competition
  • You can work remotly for any company anywhere in the world
  • Don't wait to get fired to look for job
    • If you know you are getting a new CEO look for other jobs as a precaustion
  • The most important skills in the tech industry are continuous learning and not being concerned about things you see on the news
    • Learning how to use different languages in different ways
    • Be adaptive
      • Lots of changes
    • Listen to requirments
      • Able to translate it to solving problems and requirments
      • Be able to communicate
  • The big chanllenges in the tech industry are:
    • Changes
    • Fixing errors
  • Some companies are much different than others in terms of workload and deadlines
    • Harder work in not neccaraily worse
      • Some people like this environment
    • Find the enviornment that is correct for you
    • Some people like parents need flexible schedules to do other tasks such as picking up kids from school
  • Different companies make their own tools, repositories, etc.
    • They don't use flask, fastpages, or github
  • Tech can help other industries such as business
    • Problem solving
    • Critical thinking
  • He doesn't use AWS and things that much
  • Coding can hellp with invesment and finance by understanding stocks and online businesses
    • Understaning algorithms and patterns

Review

  • Overall I learned a lot from this presentation. I never really wanted to major in computer science bdfore this. I always knew it was a great paying major but very hard. Quite frankly it isn't exactly what I want to do with my life. However, this presentation overall taught me how valuable of a skill computer sciecne is. Similar to Katherine, I want to major in a finance related field. If this doesn't work out I want to have a backup plan. So maybe in my college carrer I can have a minor in computer science. It will help me with other fields, skills, and give me a possible backup plan. I still need to learn a lot more about what I want to do with my life but this helped me get a better idea.