Thorsten Ball is a Staff Engineer at Sourcegraph and also the author of two self-published books. He currently focuses on assisting development teams within the company and correcting scaling issues for large clients. In this episode, he takes us through his journey from growing up in small town Germany to starting a band in Berlin and finally ending up as a Staff Engineer.
00:00 Introduction
05:30 Journey Begins
07:30 First memory of a computer
13:00 Technology in the family
19:00 Interests growing up
21:30 Thoughts after high school
25:40 Living in Australia
36:50 Getting into programming as a career
43:20 Leaving UPS
59:00 Moving closer to home
1:07:25 Finding Sourcegraph
1:09:30 Discovering Golang
1:20:10 Current tasks at Sourcegraph
1:30:45 Contact Information
Connect with Thorsten:
Website: https://thorstenball.com
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Sourcegraph: https://sourcegraph.com/search
Golang: https://go.dev
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