Nina Zakharenko is a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft focusing on Python. She's also an excellent public speaker. We talk about her experience with mentoring, both being a mentor, and utilizing mentors. We also talk about public speaking, her move to Microsoft, and to Portland, and the Microsoft/GitHub merge.

Special Guest: Nina Zakharenko.

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Links:

• The Recurse Center
• Why I joined Microsoft – Hacker Noon
• Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.
• Brian Holt on Twitter: "“Fullstack” developer.… "