About The Relational Technologist
Providing deep career insights into becoming a more effective software engineer and technical leader. This newsletter includes career advice, best practices and interviews with real engineers and technical leaders.
Produced by Jim and the team of coaches at Jim Hodapp Coaching.
Most of the insights provided in this newsletter originate from the Refactor SE coaching and mentorship program which we hope will encourage you to consider using our services which can help you achieve better software engineering career outcomes.
If you want to do more than just aimlessly move through your software engineering career, that’s what this newsletter is here for. Written from Jim's experience making software since he was 10 years old, through working as a junior, senior, tech lead, solutions architect, engineering manager, director and software engineering coach (see below for more).
Jim and team bring perspectives from a wealth of technical, relational and leadership experience having worked at multiple small startups, large tech companies like Technicolor, and well-loved projects like Ubuntu and the company (Canonical) behind it.
Jim’s been a contributor to Linux and the numerous open source projects and communities for more than 2 decades including Ubuntu, GNOME desktop, Qt, U-boot and several others.
What to expect?
You’ll get periodic thought-provoking reflections and clear, actionable guidance from the team’s professional career experience as accomplished software engineers and technical leaders.
You’ll enjoy this publication if:
You’ve already begun your software engineering career and feel that you’re unclear on what you want from it.
You are deeply motivated to grow in your core technical, organizational and interpersonal skills so you get better daily results and satisfaction in your daily job.
You want to grow as an engineering leader, whether you have an official manager / team lead title, or not. You want to know how you can better help your engineers grow more intentionally.
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