Glen McCallum: From IC to Engineering Manager, and the lessons learned along the way
Season 2, Episode 3 | April 20, 2021In this episode, Dan and Bekah talk to Glen McCallum, a Software engineer and manager from Victoria, Canada, about his unexpected career journey, the hard decisions he's had to make, and using open-source software with his artificial pancreas.
Glen McCallum
Glen McCallum is a Software engineer from Victoria, Canada. For the past 7 years he's been doing backend development in C# and SQL. Earlier, he did projects in Java and Rails. He's always learning, currently exploring big data with hadoop, python, and spark. Day-to-day he manages a team of 8 engineers for the 2nd largest independent book distributor in the United States.
Show Notes:
In this episode, Dan and Bekah talk to Glen McCallum, a Software engineer from Victoria, Canada who manages a team of 8 engineers for the 2nd largest independent book distributor in the US, about his unexpected career journey, the hard decisions he's had to make, and using open-source software with his artificial pancreas. Glen also talks about his near-death experience in his first IT job and the decision to move from Independent Contributor to Management.
Links:
- Glen: glenmccallum.com, @glenmccallumcan on Twitter,
- Glen's Lightning Talk: From independent contributor to engineering manager
- We are not waiting movement
- OpenAPS
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