Monica Lent - Tech and Travel Blogger, Software Engineer #106

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Monica Lent

Monica Lent is an American software engineer and engineering manager living and working in Berlin, Germany.

She started coding when she was 10 years old, and hasn’t stopped since then. In her 10+ year technical career (not including coding as a kid 😉), Monica has worked in a wide range of domains such as cloud services, natural language processing, e-learning, and fintech.

She has taken on roles ranging from individual contributor to technical lead and manager.

Most recently, she was leading a distributed team of 15+ frontend engineers at SumUp, a German fintech company. During her time there the company grew from 80 people to more than 1,500 people over the course of 5 years.

Today, Monica is building her own startup called Affilimate, a tool that helps bloggers earn more from their content with actionable affiliate analytics. It’s currently in private beta, but you’re welcome to email her for an invite or about partnership opportunities. In my spare time, Monica blogs about travel and photography on Not a Nomad Blog, which reaches over 60,000 unique readers per month.

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Quotes

“I never really planned to blog for money or to be a successful blogger. So when I started this travel blog it was primarily just to document my time living in Europe. During that Time I also learned more about photography so it became sort of like a side project for me. And slowly what happened over time is Google became more and more interested in my content.”

“If you want to write technical tutorials it’ll be a better investment of your time to optimize for SEO. So in the future, when you’re googling your own problem, you come across your own blog post. You just have to put yourself in the mindset of whoever will be discovering your content.”

—Monica Lent

Additional Resources

Learn more about Affilimate – https://affilimate.com/about/

Learn more about Blogging for Devs – https://bloggingfordevs.com/

Check out Monica’s blog travel blog – https://notanomadblog.com/

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