Saron chats with Laura Thorson, Program Manager at GitHub. Laura talks about how she was always interested in singing, dancing and music growing up which led her to UCLA on a scholarship to play the oboe. She tells us about her experience at UCLA and her decision to go to a coding bootcamp after graduation as opposed to searching for a job with her English Lit degree. Laura then describes the jobs she landed after bootcamp at Salesforce, Twitter, Meta and now GitHub and how LinkedIn played a huge role in helping her land these opportunities.
Show LinksLaura Thorson is a program manager, former engineer and design enthusiast who loves developing technical programs and scaling them for optimal impact. Currently, she manages GitHub's third-party, community global sponsorship presence and the Speaker Bureau program. In her spare time, she can be found watercoloring at the beach with her husband and son in sunny Southern California.
S8:E8 - What it's like to be in a computer science class (David Malan)
S8:E7 - How do you transform your career? (Kanika Tolver)
S8:E6 - How to make the workplace more inclusive (Nicole Sanchez)
S8:E5 - UX in healthcare (Danielle Smith)
S8:E4 - How to get hired (Kevin Lozandier)
S8:E3 - Coding without code (Joanna Smith)
S8:E2 - How to build a community (Michael Berhane)
S8:E1 - From police recruit to developer (Tim Heuer)
S7:E8 - How do you build a great product? (Ryan Hoover)
S7:E7 - When things go wrong at work (Jaime-Alexis Fowler)
S7:E6 - What are progressive web apps? (Frances Coronel)
S7:E5 - What does it mean to be offline-first? (Carmen Bourlon)
S7:E4 - What's a compiler? (Thorsten Ball)
S7:E3 - Can you do open source full-time? (Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Liles)
S7:E2 - How do I level up? (Ben Orenstein)
S7:E1 - Moms who code (Bekah Hawrot Weigel)
S6:E8 - What do you need to know about security? (Kyla Guru)
S6:E7 - From nanny to developer (Sudie Roweton)
S6:E6 - How do I learn design? (Laura Elizabeth)
S6:E5 - Should you start freelancing? (Devon Campbell)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free