#136 Developer and inventor with 27 software patents – Angie Jones Interview
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Angie Jones. She's a developer and holder of 27 software patents. She's worked at companies like IBM and Twitter, doing both test engineering and developer advocacy.
We talk about:
- How a bad performance review from her boss early in her career taught her to be less timid and more vocal about her ideas.
- How she invented lots of software testing processes and holds 27 software patents.
- Her work at IBM, Twitter, and other big tech companies.
- How feature development and test development are completely different disciplines, which each require dedicated practice and their own mindsets
- Her interest in the game Second Life and the possibility of virtual worlds
- How she uses AI for debugging and test engineering
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's a 1992 Acid Jazz song.
Also, I want to thank the 9,779 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Test Automation University learning paths: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/learningpaths.html
- Angie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techgirl1908
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | No one is like handing out these sorts of opportunities out of charity. |
| 0:05.7 | Like they just are not, right? |
| 0:07.7 | And so if the seat at this table, then that means that you earned it. The |
| 0:23.6 | The Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of Freecodecamp.org. |
| 0:58.7 | Each week, we're bringing you insight from founders, developers, and ambitious people getting into tech. |
| 1:04.5 | This week, we're joined by Angie Jones. |
| 1:08.7 | She's a teacher, speaker, developer, and holder of 27 software patents. |
| 1:15.5 | She's also the global vice president of developer relations for TBD, which is a financial |
| 1:20.9 | technology company. |
| 1:22.6 | Angie, it's great to have you here. |
| 1:24.4 | Thanks, Quincy. |
| 1:25.4 | Good to be here. |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | You're somebody whom I have admired for many |
| 1:30.4 | years and, you know, you've been involved with the Free Code Camp community in the past as well. |
| 1:36.6 | We, we, I think you were at lockdown conf. Back in the day. Yeah. Yes. That's right. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah. When the pandemic hit and everybody was first |
| 1:46.0 | going into lockdown, we had this conference and yeah, it was cool to have you there too. So, |
| 1:50.8 | yeah, much overdue like having you here on the Free Code Camp podcast. Yeah, I'm honored to be |
| 1:57.8 | here. A huge fan of you, Quincy, as well as Free Code Camp. |
| 2:03.8 | So the pleasure is all mine. |
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