Caitlin Davey's Serendipitous Path to Developer Education

Caitlin Davey, a documentation specialist at MongoDB, shares her journey into the tech and education field. Coming from a sociology background, she stumbled into programming and project management through a postgraduate certificate program. Her interest in learning and teaching with technology led her to study instructional technology and media. She emphasizes the importance of informal learning and exploring different modalities of teaching, such as visual representations and hands-on activities. Caitlin also discusses the misconceptions around learning styles and highlights the need for clear and concise documentation that reduces cognitive load for developers.