My Career Journey
Ryan Burgess@burgessdryan
Software Engineer Manager at Netflix@burgessdryan
Where the journey starts
Thought I wanted to be a web designer
Fell in love with code
Did a lot of Flash
We were doing table layouts
Internship at manlab
Hired on full time
Flash games & applications
Worked at a few agencies
Front End Engineer
Ecommerce clients
JavaScript Frameworks
Lead Front End Engineer
Legacy 5 year old codebase
Supporting 25 languages
Updated technologies
Promoted to Front End Engineer Manager
Software Engineer Manager
Lead our Acquisition UI team
We build the Netflix signup flow
Cross-platformiOS, Android, TV, Website
Advice I’d like to share
Finishing school is only the beginning
Always be learning!
Don’t try to learn it all at once
Work on side projects
It’s ok to recreate ideasthat have already been done
Get involved in open source
Don’t be scared to ask for help
Attend events(meetups, conferences, workshops)
Follow conversations on Twitter
Questions?@burgessdryan