Welcome back, listeners. Today we are continuing our series entitled The New Notification Stag for Developers,

brought to you by our longtime friends and sponsors of the Code Story podcast, Currier.

As a reminder, Currier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification

experience that your customers expect.

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Well, today I have another special guest on the Code Story podcast, Drew Youngworth.

He's a senior software engineer at Currier and has spent the last 12, 13 years in

software working in robotics, working in motorsports, and is today working on the automations

portions of the Courier platform. Drew, thank you for being on the show today.

Thanks so much for having me. Absolutely. Before we go too far into our topic for today, tell me and my audience a little bit more

about you. I'm originally from Boise, Idaho. My whole career started at a company called

Recluse Motorsports, working on their inventory management system. And then from there, I was in

robotics, automating small factories, helping robots make just tiny parts that were made out of C&C aluminum and that sort of thing.

And now I live in San Francisco working for a courier.

I love to play video games, work out.

I have a dog that I love taking into the dog park.

And then I also code for fun,

believe it or not, but I've got a few side projects. I'm building a programming language and that

sort of thing. Awesome. Well, let's dive into the meat of a bit. So you're an engineer. You've got

12, 13 years experience being a software engineer. Tell the audience. So how much of an engineer's job is

automating processes? Oh, it's a, it's a huge portion of our job. So one side of things is just

making user interfaces that look pretty. And I wouldn't call that automation, but I'd say

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