Bill Sourour is the founder of DevMastery.com, the founder and president of technology consulting firm Arcnovus, and a frequent consultant for the Canadian government.
Through DevMastery, Bill offers a weekly newsletter full of tips and resources to help developers program better and advance their careers. Bill has 20 years of experience as a programmer and architect, which he uses to help both individual developers and large organizations as a teacher and consultant.
Bill's secondary passion was for acting; after studying theatre at Concordia University, he balanced both pursuits for years until he decided to fully commit to his tech career.
In today's conversation, we talk about the early days of Bill's career balancing his tech and theatre passions, how he got into consulting and started a business, his advice for people who want to work freelance, his goals for helping developers with the DevMastery newsletter, and more.
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S5E9: Why Tech Careers Are Great for Introverts and Extroverts
S5E8: How to Keep Going When Transitioning into Tech Gets Hard
S5E7: How to Make a Midlife Career Change Into Tech
S5E6: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome When Working in Tech
S5E5: How to Come up with Coding Projects to Build
S5E4: How to Stay Motivated as You Learn to Code
S5E3: How to Decide What Programming Languages to Learn
S5E2: 14 Different Tech Careers That Could Be Your Next Job
S5E1: How to Decide if Tech is For You (And What to Do Next)
S5E0: Introducing Season 5 of the Learn to Code With Me Podcast
S4E21: The End of Season 4
S4E20: Projects and Portfolios: a Hands-on Approach to Learning to Code With Ashu Desai
S4E19: From Learning to Code on a Phone to Working for an MIT Startup With Elvis Chidera
S4E18: An Introduction to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency With Chris Castiglione
S4E17: Learning to Code While Working Full Time With a Family With Michael Tombor
S4E16: Coding Bootcamp or College Degree? With David Yang
S4E15: How to Teach Yourself Data Science With David Venturi
S4E14: Pregnancy and Parenthood in the Tech Industry With Vidya Srinivasan
S4E13: Pursuing a Career in Machine Learning With CTO Allan Leinwand
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