GitHub, Code, and Family with Brittany Ellich

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5 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In this engaging conversation, Brittany Ellich shares her journey from a young gamer to a senior software engineer at GitHub. She discusses the challenges of finding her career path, the importance of education, and her experiences in the tech industry, including the significance of mentorship and the impact of coding standards. Brittany's unique perspective as an all-end engineer and her passion for learning are highlighted throughout the discussion. 00:00 Introduction 04:40 First Me...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the OnLabs podcast, our special guest today, all the way from the internet.
0:23.3	I haven't asked her yet where she's from.
0:24.9	Brittany, Ehrlich, did I just say your name, Eric?
0:27.9	Ehrlich, I'm so bad with names, but I love that name, actually.
0:31.6	That's got to be a cool name, right?
0:33.2	Like, Eleg, get over here.
0:35.1	Eleg, what are you doing?
0:36.6	Like, I can hear that.
0:37.7	Like, it's just, it's like a strong last name.
0:40.5	So, so I love that.
0:42.2	All right, Brittany, tell everybody a little bit about, I call it the elevator pitch.
0:48.8	So give us everybody your like sort of two-minute elevator pitch on what you're doing today so yeah
0:55.2	I'm I'm Brittany Ellick like you said I am based in the Pacific Northwest near Portland
1:00.3	Oregon and I currently work at GitHub I'm a senior software engineer there I'm currently on
1:08.2	the billing team but I've worked on a couple different teams now.
1:11.6	I call myself an all-end engineer.
1:13.6	I just am a generalist that likes to do a little bit of everything.
1:17.6	I've tried specializing and it's just not for me.
1:19.6	So I like, I like doing everything.
1:21.6	I love that.
1:23.6	Either you're, like, I'm like, I want to learn like 80% of one thing and just know a few things and that's good.
1:31.0	And then like my business partners like you.
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