From Music to Open Source with Jeremy Saenz

Jeremy Saenz is a Senior Software Engineer at Synadia who works with maintaining an open source messaging platform called NATS. In this episode he takes us on his journey from music production and product management to becoming an accomplished engineer.

00:00  Introduction 

06:15  What is your first memory of a computer? 

08:50  High school interests

19:30  After High school decisions

23:00  Entering the workforce

27:10  Getting into game engine design

38:15  What was your first task at Kajabi?

42:00  How does Go end up on your radar?

47:00  Writing Martini

52:35  What is Product Management?

55:10  The velocity of change

1:03:58 Moving away from product

1:09:35 Deciding to work on NATS

1:17:30 Jeremy’s workshop topics

1:20:40 Contact Info

Connect with Jeremy: 

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/thecodegangsta

Mentioned in today’s episode:

NATS: https://nats.io

Kajabi: https://kajabi.com

Synadia: https://synadia.com

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