Ticket Into Tech: An online panel on software engineering in San Diego
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According to the Wall Street Journal, San Diego is one of the top five cities responsible for 90% of US high-tech job growth. This has led to a high demand for skilled tech talent but not enough skilled workers to fill the roles.
Join us online to talk about the massive tech opportunities in San Diego, and learn how it’s possible for dedicated, serious learners to transition into high-paying tech roles (on average $90,624 according to Glassdoor).
Leaders in the tech scene will discuss their own tech journeys and share career advice. Attendees will also learn how beginners can rapidly skill-up to the professional web developer level with the right training and support—regardless of career background.
Guests will also have a chance to talk with reps from the newly launched USD Coding Bootcamp powered by Fullstack Academy. Fullstack is a Y-Combinator backed bootcamp with the nation’s best student outcomes (think jobs at Google, Facebook and JP Morgan). Its unique, foundational teaching approach has proven especially powerful for beginners.
Agenda
Group introductions
Discussion topics:
How to get a high-paying job
Current & future states of San Diego tech
Q&A with panelists
Panelists
Randy Camp is a senior software engineering manager with Teradata, where his team is responsible for creating the software used by all customer sites to keep their Teradata systems up-to-date. Prior to Teradata, Randy worked with good friends at a local software start-up, Musicmatch, which was ultimately acquired by Yahoo! He stayed with his team, running the Yahoo! San Diego office for several years. Randy started his career with Hewlett-Packard, working at offices both in San Diego and Barcelona, Spain. Randy graduated from San Diego State University with a BS in Computer Science and completed UCSD's Leadership and Management Program.
Amy Schools is a back-end Python developer at ISS Governance, a financial data company, where she works on data engineering projects and internal tools. In 2016 she attended a bootcamp and got her first tech job through an apprenticeship. Before switching to the tech industry, she majored in International Relations at UC Davis and taught English as a foreign language in Europe. At work, she enjoys working with APIs, the Django framework and SQL, and outside of work, she enjoys reading, writing and pretty much anything artistic.
Carny Cheng is VP, Engineering at Measurabl, a commercial real-estate sustainability SaaS company. As part of his role he is responsible for the engineering, operations, and data science teams. Carny works closely with the CTO and product teams to deliver impactful features to the Measurabl platform. Prior to Measurabl, he has worked at multiple startups, helping build scalable applications and infrastructure. Carny holds degrees in Economics and Computer Engineering from UCSD and a Master of Computation Science from SDSU.
With a background in software development, data analytics and genomics, Alexis Perumal has been working at the intersection of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Next Generation Sequencing for the past 7 years at Illumina, the world leader in DNA sequencing. At Illumina he leads operations for the Software and Informatics organization. This group is at the forefront in enabling personalized medicine by delivering value through genomic data in the cloud. Key applications including oncology and rare undiagnosed genetic disease (RUGD), such as the 100,000 Genomes Project in the UK. Prior to Illumina, Alexis worked in software development and image processing at Hewlett-Packard involved in color inkjet printing and the digital photography revolution. At HP he started as a software developer focused on image processing algorithms, was awarded 4 patents, and then went on to lead development teams and manage large interdisciplinary development programs. Alexis has a BS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine and an MBA in Finance, Marketing & Operations from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling (mountain and road), ultimate frisbee, soccer and hiking.
Nimit Maru is co-founder and CEO of Fullstack Academy, the top-rated tech bootcamp on Course Report, Google, and Switchup. After launching a career in tech that brought him to Cerner and Yahoo!, Nimit began collaboration with college friend David Yang to build the coding curriculum that would eventually become Fullstack Academy. Fullstack opened in 2013 and now boasts a community of over 2000 graduates nationwide.
Fullstack Academy was recently ranked the #1 coding bootcamp in the U.S. Learn more at https://www.fullstackacademy.com.