Garret Hamann is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Google working on Google Play. He has worked for several large corporations for extended periods of time. He worked for Nokia for ten years. He shares his experience working for large corporations.

You can find Garret on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamanng

What You Will Learn:

• What great developers do at large corporations
• The difference between a manager and a coach
• When a junior developer is ready to become a senior developer

Colleen Reidelbach is CRO at Acklen Avenue. She is the host of the podcast Build Better Tech, a podcast on how the nation’s leading companies use tech as a business strategy to win. She gives her advice on the best ways to work with clients as a great developer and communicator.

You can listen to her podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-better-tech-how-the-nations-leading-companies/id1486402397

What You Will Learn:

• The conversations that great developers need to have
• How to talk with clients in an effective way
• How to work with non-technical clients

Jeremy DeYoung has been building software applications for about the last 20 years. He also has worked with many startups. He is a self-defined coder but not a developer and goes through the distinction. He shares how he got into programming without going to college. He talks about the dangers of creating code just to impress your boss as opposed to creating good code that works well.

What You Will Learn:

• How to be a great Senior Developer
• The benefits of the 18-month rule
• Pair Programming
• The rule of 7 backups