Joanna
Otmianowska
Frontend Engineer at OLX Group
"Surprising skills that will make you a better software developer"
"Surprising skills that will make you a better software developer"
Thu June 10 - 4:30 AM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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Session: Surprising skills that will make you a better software developer
Is a non-technical background always bad for a software developer?How you can embrace your previous work experience and make use of it in a coding job? Even if this previous experience we are talking about is being a mystery shopper.
Is it possible to master programming skills better thanks to learning a foreign language?
What sales job has in common with your demo meeting?
During my talk I would like to take you on a journey of surprising skills that will make you a better developer. By answering questions above, I will show you what you can do to be a programmer that is passionate, involved and thinks not only about coding but users and business as well. I had various jobs in my life and I am constantly surprised how many things from my past are useful in a frontend engineer role. They really had nothing to do with coding, yet they help me to do my job better. Are you ready to find out what exactly I am talking about?
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Joanna Otmianowska is a frontend engineer currently working at OLX Group, passionate about building user-friendly JavaScript applications that help customers with every day life and work. Initiator of one of the biggest Polish communities gathering over 20k women interested in IT related topics - FB group "Programuj, dziewczyno!". Blogging on wakeupandcode.pl, sharing her knowledge during workshops, online courses and conference talks. Her workshops and talks mostly focus on frontend development basics, building coding portfolio, mastering ways of learning new things and first steps in IT industry. Author of an ebook on how to change career path and become a programmer that was sold in hundreds copies. Mum of amazing 2-year-old boy, wife of passionate programmer. In a free time she loves to read, do yoga and come up with 100 new ideas per minute.