Episode 68: MJS 069: Lizzie Siegle

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Lizzie Siegle

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Lizzie Siegle. Lizzie is a senior computer science major at Bryn Mawr College, works for Twilio as a contracting developer evangelist, and also contributes to their documentation. She first got into programming when her AP calculus teacher told some of her classmates to attend a one day all girls coding camp at Stanford and she overheard and was interested by it. She was inspired at this camp to pursue a career in coding because she loved that you can build anything with code and be creative. They talk about what got her hooked on coding, why she chose JavaScript, why she chose to work as a developer evangelist, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Lizzie intro
Computer Science Major
Works at Twilio
Greg Baugues was her assigned mentor this past summer
How did you first get into programming?
Grew up in Silicon Valley
Hated STEM growing up
Was inspired at a one day all girls coding camp at Stanford
Loves being able to be creative with code
What was the coding camp like?
Camp was for high-schoolers
HTML and CSS
What was it that got you interested in code?
Seeing the application of code in the real world
Why JavaScript?
Works also in Python, Swift, and Haskell
Loves how versatile JS is
Why developer evangelism?
Internship at PubNub
Loves being able to teach others as an evangelist
What have you done in JavaScript that you’re proud of?
Eon.js
What are you working on currently?
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
And much, much more!

Links:

Twilio
JavaScript
Python
Swift
PubNub
Haskell
Eon.js
@lizziepika
Her newsletter
Lizzie’s Website
Lizzie’s GitHub

Sponsors:

Loot Crate
FreshBooks

Picks

Lizzie

The importance of a mentor or a sponsor