MAS 047: Tara Z. Manicsic

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Tara Z. Manicsic

This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Tara Z. Manicsic. Tara is a developer advocate for Progress, is on their Kendo UI team, and is also a Google developer expert on the Web Technologies team. She first got into programming in the second grade when she learned Logo and came back to development when she was asked to do Crystal Reports at Harvard Law School. They talk about how she found Women Who Code, the importance of understanding open source software, having a support system, what is was about Node that got her excited, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Tara intro
Very excited and fascinated with the web
Helped to start up React Round Up as a panelist
Her experience as a developer
Started out as a business school dropout
How did you first get into programming?
Learned Logo in the second grade
Loved the ability to help people and create change
Crystal Reports at Harvard Law
CS courses with tuition assistance
Getting back into CS
Being a non-traditional student
Finding Women Who Code
First job as a Node software engineer
How did Women Who Code help you?
OpenHatch
Being familiar with open source software
The importance of having support
How did you first get into JavaScript?
Seeing jobs for Ruby on Rails
Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber
NG conf
Her intro to the Angular community in person
And much, much more!

Links:

Progress
React Round Up
Crystal Reports
Women Who Code
Node
OpenHatch
JavaScript
Ruby on Rails
Matt Hernandez on JavaScript Jabber
NG conf
Angular
@Tzmanics
tzmanics.com
Tara’s GitHub

Sponsors:

Loot Crate
FreshBooks

Picks

Charles

Get a Coder Job Course
Golf Clash

Tara

Connect.Tech
DevFest Atlanta
Cedar Point