My Career Journey

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My Career Journey Ryan Burgess @burgessdryan

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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

Winnipeg

Internship at manlab

Hired on full time

Clients

Flash games & applications

JavaScript

Toronto

Worked at a few agencies

Front End Engineer

Media clients

Banking clients

Ecommerce clients

JavaScript Frameworks

San Francisco

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

A/B testing

vs

Technologies

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