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Keynote - How To Be A Developer and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

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Junior Ballroom   |   Audience level: Audience level: All

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About this session

In the children's book "Am I Even A Bee?" by Felicity Muth, Osmia begins feeling uneasy when she notices that she doesn't look like other bees at all. She even notices that some flies, moths, or beetles look more like bees than she does. Her perspective changes when she bumps into another unlikely bee named Xyla.

Our journey as developers sometimes follows a similar pattern. We may question what it means to be a developer in the first place and we're not quite sure how we fit in. On the other end, when we grow to be more experienced, we may inadvertently (or sometimes consciously) make it more difficult for others to belong.

What is the role of community in an individual's sense of identity, and what are some of the ways that we try to come to terms with our place within the developer landscape? Let's find out... together!

Presented by

  • Mario Munoz

    Mario Munoz

    I'm a person. Sometimes, I spend time thinking about what that means. In my past lives, I've enjoyed playing music, soccer, and the occasional video game. My career highlights include being an editor at a small non-profit, a minor stint as a pre-school teacher, managing payroll for a professional baseball team, coaching a high school soccer team, and being an analyst/project manager for HR systems. Oh, and by the time you read this, a software engineer working on Django.

    I also code Python by night, which is what happens when there's not enough time during the day to poke around and break things. In the past couple of years, I've presented several talks/tutorials at PyCon US, DjangoCon US, Python Web Conference, North Bay Python, PyGotham, PyOhio, and others. Sometimes I neglect/blog on my website Python By Night, and start (or abandon) too many side projects.