Follow Your North: How Detouring Your Career Can Help It Grow
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A personal-career narrative that shows how following curiosity rather than a fixed plan enabled a nonlinear path across research (Perl for DNA), internships, IT operations, consultancy, NGOs/cooperatives, and many tech companies. It names concrete technologies and practices—TDD, refactoring, evolutionary design, continuous deployment—and describes applying agile methods at organizations from startups to Globo.com, Yahoo, Netflix and government, culminating in leading an agile engineering team as Engineering Director at Nubank. The talk shares lessons, mistakes and a guiding philosophy to help listeners consider their next career steps.
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