From Software Engineer to Security Researcher with Suz Hinton [Podcast #126]

May 31, 2024 09:17 PM - 5 months ago 59410


On this week's section of nan podcast, freeCodeCamp laminitis Quincy Larson interviews Suz Hinton. She's a package engineer, information researcher, and 1 of nan first ever group to live-stream her coding connected Twitch. We talk about: How Suz started her profession building browser ads successful Adobe Flash, moving astir bandwidth early 2000s limitations. How she moved to nan US from Melbourne to activity astatine Zappos, and past Microsoft and Stripe. Her emotion of hardware and embedded development How she went backmost to schoolhouse to study infosec, and launched a 2nd profession arsenic a information researcher How she astir burned retired aft 20 years successful tech, and what she's doing to recover. Can you conjecture what opus I'm playing connected my bass during nan intro? It's a 2015 opus from an Australian musician. Be judge to travel The freeCodeCamp podcast successful your favourite podcast app. And stock this podcast pinch a friend. Let's animate much folks to study to codification and build careers for themselves successful tech. Also, I want to convey nan 9,331 benignant group who support our kindness each month, and who make this podcast possible. You tin subordinate them and support our ngo at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate Links we talk astir during our conversation: Suz's article connected unrecorded coding connected freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lessons-from-my-first-year-of-live-coding-on-twitch-41a32e2f41c1/ NoClip video crippled improvement documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop. Suz says it's "Dense and long, but nan champion communicative astir really computing came to be." https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine Space Rogue: How nan Hackers Known arsenic L0pht Changed nan World by Cris Thomas. "A book astir nan original cult of nan dormant cattle hacking group." https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/space-rogue-cris-thomas/1142912008 Sections: 0:00:00 Introduction and Background 0:09:54 Education and Early Career 0:26:50 Reflections connected Advertising and Broad Skill Set 0:30:16 The Impact of Teaching and Working astatine Zappos 0:44:24 Exploring Hardware Projects and Embedded Development 0:52:42 Challenges of Obtaining a Green Card 0:54:51 The Journey of Live Coding and Open Source 0:57:15 Participating successful Capture nan Flag Events 1:10:11 The Benefits of Asynchronous and Real-Time Communication successful Remote Work 1:24:05 Customizing Software Tools 1:29:17 Balancing Foundations and Practical Skills 1:31:54 Recognizing and Addressing Burnout 1:43:56 Rejuvenating and Staying Connected
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