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Ardan Labs Podcast

Community, Mentorship, and Education with Roxana Rodriguez-Becker

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

Ardanlabs, Golang, Computer Science, Technology, Tech, Kubernetes, Go Time Podcast, Ardan Labs, Docker, Tech Careers, Education, Bill Kennedy, Engineering

57 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Roxana Rodriguez-Becker shares her journey from being a middle school librarian to transitioning into the tech industry. She discusses her educational background, her experiences in teaching, and the challenges she faced while raising a medically complex child. Roxy also talks about her passion for coding, her personal projects, and her aspirations to find a job in software development. Throughout the conversation, she emphasizes the importance of community, mentorship, and c...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Arn Labs podcast, our special guest today is Roxy Rodriguez Becker.

0:23.9

Oh, you know, Roxy, I've been excited to talk with you. I've got a bunch of guests lined up this week, but you are the one I've wanted to talk to.

0:31.8

You just started showing up on my Twitter feed, which I don't know why. Twitter's gotten really weird. I like old Twitter

0:40.0

where my feed used to be pretty consistent. Now it's like, I guess I don't use any of the other

0:46.6

apps, so I feel like it's what Instagram would or TikTok would look like today. Anyway, regardless

0:53.0

of that, you started showing up on my Twitter feed.

0:56.1

I don't know why, but I thought your background was interesting, and I thought it would be,

1:00.8

you'd be a unique guest for the show.

1:02.6

So one, thank you for joining us and talking us today.

1:08.3

All right, I ask everybody in the beginning to kind of give everyone the two

1:12.3

minute spiel on what they're doing today. Okay. So I am currently a librarian information specialist.

1:20.8

I'm a middle school librarian. And I taught math for about 10 years. And about a year and a half ago I started the transition into tech right now, like through programs like 100 Debs and Scrimba.

1:36.9

I'm a front end dev, but I'm trying to finish the 100 Deves program so that I can be full stack.

1:43.3

I've never heard of the 100 devs program. that I can be full stack. I've never heard of the 100 devs program.

1:46.7

I'm actually really new to all these programs that are sort of out there.

1:51.2

Like I know the boot camps, my wife took a boot camp at Iron Hack and she learned like for three

1:57.0

months, all the front end stuff.

1:59.1

So I'm kind of familiar with that, but talk to me a little bit about this 100.

2:02.9

What did you call it again?

2:03.6

The 100.

2:04.8

100 devs.

2:06.1

100 devs.

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