Kathyleen Beveridge Notes
- Lived in Spain and moved to San Diego in 2004
- Was a finace major and when graduated worked at Wells Fargo
- Worked as a broker
- Started her high tech carrer HP
- Switched and then worked at Qualcomm
- HP Inc: Create technology that makes life better for everyone, every where
- Qualcomm: Inventing the tech the world loves
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer
- At Thermo Fisher her job is to think if the product fits with the market
Kris Porter Notes
- Software Engineer- SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure
- Livermore High School alum and enjoyed STEM classes
- Enrolled in UCLA for electrical engineering
- Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cal State LA
- Did research at an undergraduate school
- Worked to make a robot that deployed in Costa Rica and scoutted the environment
- Systems of engineer at a start up, GPM
- Intro to Devops, transition to Qualcomm
- Began working at Twitter
- CCNA training
- Streaming Media infrastructure
- Twitter Projects: New DataCenter Deployment and Migrating HomeTimelineto GraphQl
- Continuous learning is important
- The best people to work with listen to the requirements and then they translate it to how technology can solve the requirement
- Problem solving can be used in other carrers that don't necessary require coding
- Coding can help to investment and finace because you can use understanding of algorithms and patterns