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From Hedge Funds To Temporal
- Shawn Wang transitioned from finance to tech by learning to code and attending a bootcamp.
- Blogging and public speaking led to roles at Netlify, AWS, and ultimately Temporal where he created his own job.
Learn And Share Publicly
- Learn in public: share what you learn to accelerate feedback and opportunities.
- Teaching openly helps you improve faster than hoarding knowledge in a zero-sum way.
Workflows As Durable Functions
- Temporal is a workflow engine that treats long-running business logic as durable functions.
- It simplifies reliability for asynchronous, multi-step real-world transactions like delivery or transcription.