Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett gives job seekers insight into what technical interviews really look like by hosting conversations and mock interviews with engineering leaders.

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Episode #46 - Final - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

March 16, 2023 • 4 mins
Episode #46 - Final - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

 

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Episode #45.5 - John Dugaw - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

February 9, 2023 • 48 mins
Episode #45.5 - John Dugaw - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett John is the Principal Architect at LionKube which focuses on FinOps and DevOps and Kubernetes work. John has previously worked Walgreens, Amazon, and T-Mobile in engineering leader roles. He is also a voice over artist.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/jr5RR8E-rjQ

  • Part One: https://youtu.be/jr5RR8E-rjQ

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7z...

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Episode #45 - John Dugaw - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

February 3, 2023 • 53 mins
Episode #45 - John Dugaw - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett John is the Principal Architect at LionKube which focuses on FinOps and DevOps and Kubernetes work. John has previously worked Walgreens, Amazon, and T-Mobile in engineering leader roles. He is also a voice over artist.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/m3kEkusjSqU

  • Part Two: https://youtu.be/jr5RR8E-rjQ

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt...

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Episode #44.5 - Chris Love - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

January 26, 2023 • 41 mins
Episode #44 - Chris Love - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett Chris is the Managing Partner at LionKube which focuses on FinOps and DevOps and Kubernetes work. Chris is also a published author of Core Kubernetes.

  • Video: To be posted

  • Part Two: To be posted

  • Audio only:

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p...

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Episode #44 - Chris Love - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

January 19, 2023 • 46 mins
Episode #44 - Chris Love - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett Chris is the Managing Partner at LionKube which focuses on FinOps and DevOps and Kubernetes work. Chris is also a published author of Core Kubernetes.

  • Video: To be posted

  • Part Two: To be posted

  • Audio only:

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p...

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Episode #43 - William Smith - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

January 5, 2023 • 45 mins
Episode #43 - William Smith - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett William is a Managing Director at Technical Paradigm where hes been for the last five years working with large companies like Microsoft. Before that he worked at a number of companies including Deloitte. He's also the author of The Future of Tech.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/PXGg5fcv6IU

  • Audio only: 

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show...

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Episode #42.5 - Rebecca Bailey - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

December 15, 2022 • 56 mins
Episode #42.5 - Rebecca Bailey - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett Rebecca is a Engineering Manager at Formidable where she has been for the last three years. Before that she worked at a number of Chicago based companies including 8th Light.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/Bz0LoXYBHAQ

  • Video Part Two: https://youtu.be/X1-3ZZcgGCg

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4...

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Episode #42 - Rebecca Bailey - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

December 8, 2022 • 31 mins
Episode #42 - Rebecca Bailey - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett Rebecca is a Engineering Manager at Formidable where she has been for the last three years. Before that she worked at a number of Chicago based companies including 8th Light.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/Bz0LoXYBHAQ

  • Part Two: https://youtu.be/X1-3ZZcgGCg

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03

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Episode #41 - LaunchPad Lab - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

November 10, 2022 • 46 mins
Episode #41 - LaunchPad Lab - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett LaunchPad Lab is a consulting companies based in Chicago that primarily focused on Ruby on Rails, React, and Salesforce work. Brendan Hennessy (Co-Founder and CTO) and Conor Hawes (Engineering Manager) are both coding bootcamp graduates and have been with LaunchPad Lab for many years.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/SnND1H4bEho

  • Part Two: https://you...

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Episode #40 - Matt Wilson - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

October 20, 2022 • 53 mins
Episode #40 - Matt Wilson - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett Matt is an engineering manager in the Chicago land area. Most recently he's worked at Farmers Fridge as the Manager of Platform Engineering and he was with ShopperTrak for many years before that.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/1iPlY-6qTNw

  • Part Two: https://youtu.be/YksAbgLZNB8

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=2...

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Episode #39 - Ross Bell - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

October 6, 2022 • 42 mins
Ross is an Engineering Manager at Elastic in Chicago. Previously he was the CTO and co-founder of Pixavo and an engineering manager at a number of other Chicago tech companies.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/dh3KdAyS6lw

  • Part Two: https://youtu.be/abD7MemNBzc

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/professional-technical-intervie...

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Episode #38 - Brian Montana - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

September 15, 2022 • 34 mins
Episode #38 - Brian Montana - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett Brian is an Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer at UHC Technology previously Rally Health in Chicago. He runs Chicago CodePen and converted it to a platform agnostic creative coding Meetup called computer.art. He mentor and TA for Code Platoon to support other veterans starting a career in technology.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/QFWAn...

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Episode #37 - Gregg Walrod - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

September 1, 2022 • 45 mins
Episode #37 - Gregg Walrod - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett My guest today is Gregg Walrod who is currently an Engineering Manager at Aclaimant. Previously he was Senior Manager of Engineering Operations at Inspire11 and Head of Software Engineering at Nerdery.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/wHi132yeo00

  • Part Two - Resume Review: To be posted

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8Xu...

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Episode #36 - Zachary Lome - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

August 18, 2022 • 44 mins
My guest today is Zachary Lome, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Amount where he has been for the last seven years. Previously he was with Bank of America.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/sfujcEMA3CQ

  • Part Two - Technical: https://youtu.be/_QrmRiNTje4

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/professional-technical-interviewee...

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Episode #35.5 - Bijan Vafaei - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

August 11, 2022 • 33 mins
Episode #35 - Bijan Vafaei - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett My guest today is Bijan Vafaei, Product Manager at Expedia and previously Head of Product Management at Wage. Before moving into product Management he was Software Engineer and Software Engineering Manager

Video: https://youtu.be/RB_7fT4gfR8

Part Two: https://youtu.be/qlKSQXmglAg

Audio Only: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wtxjh-1295fec

 

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Episode #35 - Bijan Vafaei - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

August 10, 2022 • 40 mins
My guest today is Bijan Vafaei, Product Manager at Expedia and previously Head of Product Management at Wage. Before moving into product Management he was Software Engineer and Software Engineering Manager

  • Video: https://youtu.be/RB_7fT4gfR8

  • Part Two - Technical: To be posted

  • Part Two - Technical - Audio only: To be posted

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03

Apple Podca...

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Episode #34 - Nathan Reynolds - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

July 21, 2022 • 38 mins
Episode #34 - Nathan Reynolds - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett My guest today is Nathan Reynolds, VP of Engineering at InMoment which recently acquired ReviewTrackers where Nathan has spent the last 6 years.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/_Zs3wvH17VE

  • Part Two - Technical: https://youtu.be/VNBI_p49mAk

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03

Apple Podcasts - ht...

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Episode #33 - Jorge Coca - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

July 7, 2022 • 54 mins
My guest today is Jorge Coca who is the Head of Engineering at Very Good Ventures and a Flutter advocate. He also runs the Chicago Flutter meet up community.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/LixRBj9tutQ

  • Part Two - Technical: To be posted

  • Audio only: To be posted

  • Part Two - Technical - Audio only: To be posted

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=272649053fbf4c03 Apple Podcasts - https://podcast...

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Episode #32 - Chris Powers - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

June 16, 2022 • 48 mins
My guest today is Chris Powers who is currently the Director of Engineering at Chegg (Thinkful), before that he was Director of Engineering and Engineering Manager at Sprout Social and Groupon. Chris also regularly speak at technical conferences.

  • Video: https://youtu.be/IR0QyGYYTb0

  • Part Two - Technical: https://youtu.be/HY0t7XYl1rE

  • Audio only: https://professionaltechnicalintervieweewithtaylordorsett.podbean.com/e/episode-...

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Episode #31.5 - Arne Saupe - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett

June 11, 2022 • 34 mins
Episode #31.5 - Arne Saupe - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett My guest today is Arne Saupe, VP of Technology at Farmers Fridge. Arne has helped Farmers Fridge scale their engineering team and previously helped Trunk Club scale their team as their Chicago Director of Engineering.
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