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330
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Mentoring Developers with Shashi Lo

Recorded:
August 19, 2024
Released:
October 3, 2024
Episode Number:
330

Matt and Mike had a great conversation with Shashi Lo this week! Shashi is a senior software engineer at Microsoft and founder of Gridiron Survivor - an open source NFL Survivor pool SaaS application that’s designed to help the junior developers working on it further their skills and knowledge through real-world experience. Unlike self-taught personal projects, Shashi walks us through how his mentees on the Gridiron Survivor project are guided through corporate standards such as writing clean code and covering all the bases with proper testing - concepts that may seem superfluous on small portfolio project, but are a must-have in a corporate setting.

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Questions/Topics

  • Can you give a bit of a background on what mentorship was like for you when you started in the industry?
  • What are the different types of mentorship new developers can look for?
  • Gridiron Survivor some text
    • Can you give an overview of what it is right now?
    • What is the vision for the future?
    • How can our audience participate/follow along?
  • As a mentor, what are your biggest pain points?

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Want to learn more?

Read more about this topic with an extensive companion article by Michael LaRocca: Bridging the Skills Gap: Empowering Junior Developers Through Apprenticeship Programs