S5E2: Joves Luo on Graduate Algorithms & Software Engineering Journey

On this episode, host Tanmay Shah chats with Joves Luo. Joves is a long-time member of the OMSCS community as an alumnus and one of the Head Instructional Associates for CS 6515, Graduate Algorithms.  He’s also a tenured software engineer at Google with extensive experience in distributed computing, cloud, and systems design.  In this conversation, we discuss Joves’s career journey, his perspective on the Grad Algorithms course, and more. 

TIMESTAMPS- 

(0:00) - Cold Intro  

(1:06) - Episode Intro  

(3:15) - Initial Career 

(11:50) - Learning from OMSCS courses  

(15:15) - TAing for Grad Algo (GA) 

(33:20) - Wisdom and Advice about taking GA 

(40:25) - Working at Google 

(1:05:00) - Advice to software engineers 

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