Stand out from the herd

$ whoami

10+ years of key punchingCommunity involvedPeople personManagement oriented

CTO Zyrcle

@OrestesCAorestes.ca@gmail.com

Zyrcle

8 peopleapp-centric startup

● Backed by ENISA● Pre-selected for Lanzadera● Attending Startup Next by Google for

Entrepreneurs● Starting Embarca / Catalunya Startups● Competing at Sonar 2015

why?

disclaimer

Not uncommon

Tech/stack specialists “gangs”Tunnel visionDisregarding by defaultProne to conflict

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454

Work experience:● 30% 2-5 years● 20% less than 2 yearsEducation: ● 41% self-taught● 60% works side-projects less than 5 hours/week Community: forums, conferences, meetupshttp://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015

Influences

The gaps

Online presence/visibility

LinkedInTech blogMedium storiesHomepage

The gaps

English

International teamsTelecommuting gigsGetting into a tech hub

The gaps

DevOps

Set up your tech stackSCM includes infrastructureVirtualization and containers are so hot

The gaps

Agile Scrum/XP

Leading roles manage processYou already have technical prowess

The gaps

Business

Lean Startup/AnalyticsIntrapeneurs are very valuable

Learning

Pet projectOfficial docs, tutorialsNoteworthy projects, common use casesConferencesLocal user groups

Be the change that you wish to see in the world

Don’t limit yourself or othersCollaborate in other areasQuestion assumptionsProvide objective argumentsKeep learning

be someone you’d like to work with

thanks!

References:The Interpreterhttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2Kyle Simpson - You Don’t Know JShttps://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS