This episode features an interview with Salma Alam-Naylor, Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. Originally beginning her career as a music teacher, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, working as a front end developer and tech lead. She also writes code live on Twitch to bring inclusive and accessible technology to people around the world.
In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Salma to discuss how music and code influence each other, streaming, and saving engineering for last.
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Episode Timestamps:
(01:58): What Salma is working on
(07:33): What Salma’s day-to-day looks like
(11:13): What tools Salma uses
(14:42): How Salma got into the industry
(21:18): Rapid Fire Questions
(34:43): Random Segment Generator
(43:56): Cassidy’s Sage Advice
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“I approach writing code like I approached my composition, especially with functional programming. It's about motifs and repeatable things. You have an overarching journey that you want to take. A beginning, a middle, and an end, basically, even on a function level or an architecture level. It’s exactly the same thing. It's not even about maths, I think it's just about logic and problem solving and creativity.” – Salma Alam-Naylor
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