For this month’s episode we have Maoni Stephens, the owner for the .NET GC. She’s a deep domain expert in garbage collection for over 15 years and has a lot of interesting learnings to share about building a career towards the architect path. We discuss everything from getting the most out of of mentors, building learning into a career, the critical skill of debugging others’ code, developing confidence and perseverance towards her goals.
[01:37] – Maoni’s path to find her GC passion
[04:20] – Trying out the PM path with GC
[05:15] – What it means to be a GC architect and working with customers
[08:40] – Building out tooling to automate her job
[14:55] – Most recent career learning – working with a team instead of one-woman army
[17:39] – How did Maoni know she had found her area and finding a critical mentor?
[22:41] – How did she decide that she needed a change in her job and put her plan into action?
[24:51] – Learning to debug as career accelerator
[29:00] – On persistence and confidence
[32:33] – Finding computers after college
[34:20] – IRC as key career maker in the 90’s, AGAIN!
[35:25] – Getting the most out of a great mentor
[39:20] – Mentors for non-technical areas, learning soft skills, influence without authority
[41:10] – Instilling new habits of interactions
Steve Carroll (msft)
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