Friday Night Live with Ethan and Aleksey
summary
A casual on-stage conversation traces a 30-year career from NCSA Mosaic → Netscape to a delivery role at EPAM focusing on healthcare and life sciences, arguing for engineering values that minimize technical debt and prioritize SDLC, testing and stakeholder engagement. Concrete failures include a mobile rollout where users rejected first-day production, teaching that rollout and change management matter as much as code. Current work includes building an iOS app with a son and exploring AR/VR; the view is pro-continuous learning and cautious optimism about AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:54Show description and AI-generated portraits
- 4:01Ethan’s career and personal background
- 8:57Delivery journey and career challenges
- 15:17Engineering DNA and quality mindset
- 21:41Adapting to constant change
- 24:54AI future and existential uncertainty
- 29:33Memorable failure and lessons learned
- 31:58Audience questions and closing remarks
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