An interview with Matthew Sanabria about his path through (and continued life in) the tech industry. Matthew and I met working at Hashicorp when it was a much smaller company than it is today. In this episode, we spend a lot of time discussing things we've learned and things we wish someone had told us when we got started in System Administration and Software Development.

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

3:00 Switching from Infrastructure to Development

5:00 Linux skills that many Developers are missing

8:00 shoring up your weaknesses

11:00 Agility

14:00 Memorization and Learning

16:30 Dave admits his mistakes

23:15 Steve Yegge callout

26:00 From IT to CS

28:00 Engineering

31:30 ...and overengineering (middle out)

36:00 Teams, Skill Gradients, Companies

39:00 How to grow senior engineers

42:00 How to grow junior engineers

44:45 Agile

49:00 Agile operations teams

51:30 we're taking questions

52:13 Final words from Matthew

Links:

• The tutorialinux YouTube channel
• I'm writing a book! Pre-ordering helps me out in a very direct way. The Software Developer's Guide to Linux: A practical, no-nonsense guide to using the Linux command line and utilities as a software developer.
• My New Packer Course⁠
• My OG Linux Project Course⁠

Some of Matthew's (awesome) YouTube videos:

• Troubleshooting TLS
• A Practical Terraform Intro