Colby Fayock is currently a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary who teaches the tools of the web and Cloudinary implementation. Colby takes us on a journey through creating websites in highschool to using cloud technologies and landing a job at Cloudinary.
Connect with Colby:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/colbyfayock
Twitter: https://twitter.com/colbyfayock
Github: https://github.com/colbyfayock
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colbyfayock/
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Cloudinary : gr-sea-gg-brand-home-base
React: https://reactjs.org
Element84: https://www.element84.com
Inktober : https://inktober.com
00:00 Introduction
01:20 What are you currently doing today?
05:35 What were you focused on in high school?
10:01 Building websites and hobbies in high school
14:52 Finding a major at Penn-State
19:31 Thoughts on graduate school
21:37 Finding jobs after university
28:40 Technology for web development / Moving jobs
37:17 Realizing you’re underpaid and moving forward
40:30 Working at ThinkGeek
47:24 Getting ”the boot” / Front-end and back-end relationships
58:10 Exploring for new opportunities
1:02:38 Working at Element84
1:07:45 Using serverless technology
1:15:38 Landing at Cloudinary
1:19:50 What is your current role at Cloudinary?
1:21:36 How is your company measuring success?
1:27:56 Contact info
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