Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 021 | Sally Lehman - Developers as Customers, Finding Opportunity
Sally Lehman is an email geek. She grew up in various small towns in Oregon and Washington, and is a recent transplant to Tempe, AZ. Her first computer experiences were with EMACs, MS-DOS, and Ski Free when she was <5 years old. She built out the Puppet and CI/CD server infrastructure for GoDaddy email marketing and Madmimi.com, and maintains uptime on a range of GoDaddy's existing email products. Sally's favorite movie is Office Space, and she makes a mean Tiramisu. She is a Bit Flipper and Three-Quarter-Stack Developer, as well as the Self-appointed Savior of bad SPF records.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Sally Lehman
- - Sally's definition of value
- - The things that "light Sally up"
- - How Sally got started in software
- - The developer as an overworked and underpaid servant
- - Sally's story of failure, having to improvise and find another path when plans don't pan out
- - How Sally turned disappointment into opportunity
- - Sally's greatest success story, recognizing a problem and digging deep to acheive mastery
- - How Sally stays current with what she needs to know
- - Sally's book recommendation
- - The things that have Sally most excited about her present and future
- - The greatest sources of pain in Sally's life and work
- - The things about which Sally like to geek out apart from software
- - Sally's predication for the future of software
- - The nature of coding in the future
- - Sally's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Sally
- - Farewell
Resources:
Sally's book recommendation:
Sally's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Take care of your health - physically and emotionally
2. Listen to the people around you and exercise empathy
3. Care about the result and get things done
