[melbourne-pug] Can I buy someone lunch to talk about Python

[Sebastiaan Stoffels]

Hi Rory,
Many thanks for your email.

I have considered a Technical Pre-sales role in my current company ( and
past employer ), and in my experience, these are more Sales than
development. i.e. still managed by the Sales org. Until you get to
Specialist SA's and Consultants, but at least in Red Hat, that still
doesn't include dev work. Which is what I'd really like to build my new
career on.

I'd ideally like to work building Cloud/Web Applications, and work on back
end more than front end. Embedded could also be an option, and I actually
quite enjoyed learning C ( although I'm just a beginner there, but I get
stuff like Pointers, memory management etc ). I did the EDX Harvard CS50x
course, which was amazing. Just need to do my final project for that! Was
good to get some exposure to Computer Science aspects.

I do have a Github with a few tools I've built -
https://github.com/Sebastiaan76

The most substantial one is  a web scraper and database loading tool to
download FX Tick Data. Feel free to critique! :)

Perhaps I could come to Windsor some time and chat? Otherwise, will you be
at the Python Meetup on Monday?


Kind Regards



On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:04 AM Rory Hart <hartror at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sebastian
>
> Lots of people here that could help but we all have a wide variety of
> career paths. Is there a particular area of IT you’d like to get into?
>
> Off the top of my head:
>
> * web dev (lots of jobs)
> * phone apps
> * devops
> * data science
> * embedded
>
> With your sales experience a technical pre-sales career path such as
> solution architect could leverage your existing skillset.
>
> Lastly I am always happy to offer my opinion (ask my colleagues), our
> offices are in Windsor however. Would be happy to have a phone call.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rory Hart
>
> On 4 Feb 2019, at 2:19 pm, Sebastiaan Stoffels <
> seb at sebastiaan-stoffels.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Just wondering if there are any experienced Python Developers working in
> the CBD that I could buy lunch and ask some questions / get advice on a
> potential, major, career change from I.T. Sales into Python Development.
>
> I'd be keen to address such topics as:
>
>    - Are bootcamps worth the money? If so, which ones do employers look
>    favourable upon?
>    - How 'good' do I need to be before applying for a Junior Python
>    Developer position?
>    - Identify any other things I don't even know / haven't considered.
>
> I've taught myself Python over the past year or so, and can figure out
> most things given the time, but I have no clue how ready ( or not ) I might
> be. I have zero people in my sphere that are developers to ask these dumb
> questions!
>
> So, free lunch at a nice venue ( within reason - no Rockpool! ).
>
> Happy to discuss via phone, email, whatever is preferred.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> --
> Sebastiaan Stoffels
> Ph 0419 216 676
>
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Sebastiaan Stoffels
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