#1 The Journey of Jakub Kozłowski

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Jakub discovered his passion for programming since he was 10 y.o. He encountered different challenges and had to make decisions that changed his educational path, this helped him to grow professionally.
Jakub is a senior software engineer at Disney Streaming, an open source contributor, he gives talks in different Scala meetups and conferences and he is a content creator.
He shared some of his learnings and talked about the challenges that he faced during his journey.

He gave advice on how to ask for promotion and how time management is important and more helpful tips that he has learned along the way.

Subscribe to Jakub's Youtube Channel
And follow him on Twitter

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Notes:

[1:08] The education path

[4:22] Starting his programming journey

[11:31] Finding a mentor helps to grow faster

[25:55] Applying for his first job

[27:47] The obstacles Jakub faced at the beginning

[37:45] Lucky vs opportunist

[42:31] The progress in Jakub's career after his first job

[49:06 ] The obstacles and the challenges Jakub has faced

[1:04:43] The educational content: Scala talks, blog posts and youtube tutorials

[1:28:28] Advice

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