Kathyleen Beveridge

Born in Vietnam :D
She didn’t have the traditional education like most people
Undergrad at Santa Clara
NBA at USC (not traditional since she waited to get NBA)
Studied abroad in Spain
she lived in the Bay Area and had the opportunity to live abroad
Maya angelou: my mission in life is not nearly to survive, but to thrive, and share my passion
She worked at 3 companies for a long time
Create technology that makes life better for everyone everywhere
She like working with people like us to make an impact on the world
A priority is doing something that the world wants
What she did in her companies had a macro impact on the world
She is senior director of marketing and sales and works closely with the R&D director

Finance degree
Maya Angelou poet
First job = Investment banker w Wells Fargo (didn’t enjoy it)
Switched careers to high tech
First tech job was at HP
Took six months off and worked at Qualcomm
Works at Thermo Fisher Scientific (25,000 employees upping to 125,000) < she is senior director of marketing and sales
Similarities in mission statements= tech for good of the people, use tech to help people
Loves high tech because she loves the impact (global/macro effect) in producing products for people in the world
Her role: senior director of marketing and commercial sales= works with rnd director (stage gates = voice of customers)
People in her team work w the “scrum master” and uses “scrum process/team” (frontend/backend/etc) to create plan and promote products
HP: “Create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere”
Qualcomm: “Inventing tech the world loves”
Thermo Fisher Scientific: “Enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer”

Kris Porter:

Software engineer (SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure) <- not writing code all day
UCLA for Elecrtrical Engineering
Failed first computer science (stay motivated and don’t have to know where in tech degree you want)
Masters degree in electrical engineering from cal state LA
Job where fixed computers/tech
Got job at start up GPM (email marketing automation which was like DevOps)
Worked at NBC Universal (streaming media infrastructure)
He moved down here because his girlfriend moved here
Worked at Qualcomm (forced Mort to hire him LMAO)
Dev ops job, automation
2 years ago started working at twitter
worked on API which requested from client and retrieve info from all users and resurface important stuff back to client
He has worked at a whole bunch of different places and he was always learning
Data structures/algorithms/Python/etc very important and used a lot rest API slowly moving to Graph QL at Twitter
Data scientists = analyze customer demand/use (also non-technical role)
Most important qualities in tech industry: continuous learning (learning how to learn), resilience (don’t fear stuff in the news), go for it (even if in job for short period of time = still learning and gaining skills), good listener (in normal terms) and then translate into tech
he moved all around California
He went to UCLA
He got C’s in his computer classes but still ended up taking it as a career
Learning the Linux operating system is a marketing skill
He started doing Dev Ops stuff, meaning he deployed his software

Focused on Communication Systems and Computer Networks
(Cs 31) Failed…
Enjoyed stem classes at Livermore High School
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal State LA
POV if you feel like you’re bad a comp sci = KEEP SLAYING
Researched networked sensors (robot swings between trees and scans/takes data on environment) < deployed in Costa Rica jungle
Learned about Linux here
Was introduced to Qualcolmm in 2014 (Mr. Mort. hired him :0)
Currently works for Twitter (#workedforElonsince2021)
Twitter timeline = API that goes to twitter database and retrieves info from many users)
Twitter used to use all rest APIS but now moving to GraphQL
He continues to learn (doesn’t get bored in industry)
you don’t have to follow one path, you can learn in many different areas
Twitter trains new employees for three weeks
Streaming Media Infrastructure for 2012 Olympic Games.
Center for Embedded Networked Centers
Networked Info Mechanical Systems (NIMS)
Twitter Projects
New DataCenter Deployment
Migrating HomeTimeline to GraphQL

Planned in a group with other engineers to coordinate in Agile Methodology
Short sprints
different engineers worked together to plan things
The concept of agile is important because they did projects in a span of 6-12 months

When you see a company shuffle = look for new jobs DON’T WAIT
Qualcomm uses GitLab = repositories cost money = analyzed download levels to predict when to archive/delete repositories
Kathyleen uses databases and data science to predict sales, weather (wine harvest), etc. Non-technical roles = recommending clients to buy certain things/do things

KRIS:

KATHY:

Be adaptive
Career paths won’t always be a straight line
Best technicians: listen and solve technical requirements (can explain in non-technical terms)
Something they had to Learn:
To be adaptive
Be able to pass code tests (code has to work)