Full Stack Journey 080: Career Transitions Via Cloud, Infrastructure, And Content Creation With Rishab Kumar

Episode 80 features Rishab Kumar, developer advocate at Twilio. He and Scott Lowe discuss his career journey. Specifically, Rishab focuses on three key things he learned that helped enable important career transitions for him. Specifically, Rishab and Scott discusses how learning these things affected Rishab’s career:

  • A cloud provider (AWS, in Rishab’s case)
  • Infrastructure as code (IaC) and the importance of faster releases
  • Writing, public speaking, and video creation

For each of these areas, Rishab and Scott talk over the following questions:

  • Why learn this thing? What prompted it?
  • What resources did you use?
  • What challenges did you run into?
  • How did you overcome these challenges?

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You can find of all Rishab’s contact information at rishabkumar.com.

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