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Ardan Labs Podcast

Sports, Internships, and Startups with Samantha Coyle

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

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Samantha Coyle, a software engineer who went from a high school athlete with little tech exposure to a leading Go developer. Samantha shares her path through college, where she pivoted to computer science, and how she navigated internships at top companies like Dell and AMD. She also discusses her current work at Diagrid, where she helps build cutting-edge cloud-native applications. Samantha's story highlights resilience, continuous learning, and the importan...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Our Lives podcast. Our special guest today is the one, the only Samantha Coyle.

0:25.7

Look who we have here.

0:27.6

Now, if you are on YouTube watching, you would see the big giant smile that Samantha always has a smile on her face.

0:36.4

It's awesome.

0:41.7

How's it going, Samantha? Pretty good. No complaints. Good Wednesday so far. And I just ate, so I'm happy. Ah, you're not going to feel sluggish and tired now.

0:49.3

You feel energized. I hope so. You look happy about lunch.

0:55.9

That's, you know, I don't usually eat until lunch.

0:58.5

So sometimes I get that same feeling like it's finally lunchtime I can eat.

1:03.7

Wow.

1:04.5

Well, it was leftover spaghetti and it was made with like homemade tomatoes and all that good stuff so extra good for this batch

1:14.5

you were dreaming about it all day like for lunch happens it in fact i had made some um sausage

1:23.8

yesterday and i was dreaming about it all day for lunch too. So we're in the same boat.

1:27.9

We're the same boat for a good lunch today. All right, enough of that nonsense, Samantha.

1:33.4

We're here to kind of learn about you. So let's start with giving everybody, give me like the one

1:41.7

minute spiel. I call it the spiel.

1:44.2

I don't know where I got that word from.

1:45.7

Maybe growing up in New York or something.

1:48.0

But give me the one-minute spiel on what you're doing today.

1:52.0

So what is Samantha busy working on today?

1:56.5

Wow.

1:57.3

Well, there's a lot of aspects to what I do.

1:59.9

And I try to find a good balance of my time. So for work, I do a lot of aspects to what I do, and I try to find a good balance of my time.

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