April and Emily discuss FinTech with Sherry Ruan, an Application Developer in the proprietary trading industry for over 7 years. They talk about getting a career in FinTech, innovation, emerging technologies, ethical dilemmas, their experiences and more.

It's the battle of the software development methodologies! Emily and April dive into different methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and XP. They discuss each methodology and its pros and cons. Then the duo get into their experiences and discuss their preferred ways to work.

In this episode April and Emily are joined by their friend AC Hardy, a software content analyst and recent Chicago transplant, to discuss remote work. The trio will discusses their experiences with remote work, embarrassing zoom stories, their remote work tips, and more.

It's season 3 and April and Emily get into the second part of quantum computing! Emily leads the discussion as they talk about the various different quantum software and libraries and dive into the modern applications of quantum computing.

Resources:

• Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction by Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak
• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen
• IBM Quantum Experience https://quantum-computing.ibm.com
• Qiskit textbook https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html
• DWave https://www.dwavesys.com
• Quantumcomputingreport.com
• Builtin Quantum Applications Blog https://builtin.com/hardware/quantum-computing-applications
• The Post Quantum World podcast by my colleague Konstantinos Karagiannis
• Follow Emily on instagram @emilyinquantum

In part 1 of the season finale, Emily talks about her two favorite subjects: quantum computing and cats. April and Emily discuss the basics of quantum computing, the challenges facing this field, and different quantum hardware. We explain topics like Schrodinger's Cat, superposition, entanglement, decoherence, NISQ, annealing.

Sources

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen

Quantum Annealing Explained - D-Wave Systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfkXjzzYOo&list=PLPvKnT7dgEsvVQwGgrlUVXBa2J6PAW8a4&ab_channel=D-WaveSystems

April and Emily explain computer hardware, operating systems, and tips for building your own personal computer. April leads the discussion answering questions like: How do you build a computer? What are the components that make up these machines we use every day? What's the difference between HDD and SSD?

Resources:

• Intel blog - How to Build a Gaming PC https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/gaming/resources/how-to-build-a-gaming-pc.html
• PC Part Picker https://pcpartpicker.com/
• Build a PC Reddit: Beginner's Guide https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/wiki/beginnersguide

Emily and April talk with special guest Erin Bailey. They discuss building a security education framework for developers. Learn about how to create specific training based on your company’s tech stack and identify key vulnerabilities.

These resources below will give you hands-on training on all sorts of different kinds of vulnerabilities! The more you learn about them, the more capable you are of preventing them.

1. https://owasp.org/

The Open Web Application Security Project - you can find their top 10 vuln list on the home page, they have lots of other good info there too

2. https://www.hackthebox.com/

Hands on hacker training

" take your cybersecurity skills to the next level through the most captivating, gamified, hands-on training experience"

3. https://ctf101.org/

CTF (capture the flag) basics

4. https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/

Hacking smart contracts (Solidity)

In this episode, April and Emily talk about their experiences as perfectionists dealing with imposter syndrome. They describe the different types of perfectionism and imposter syndrome, discuss how these concepts relate, give their tips, and bust some myths.