Y7K x Alvaro Videla - From selling street food to working for Microsoft
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#Talk
How can we get started in the tech world? Does anybody can do it? Once I'm working in tech, how can I move forward in my career? Is it too late to for me to have a shot in tech? In this talk, Alvaro will try to answer all these questions while sharing his life story, where he learn to program in the Uruguayan countryside, without an Internet connection, and eded up working in some of the biggest tech companies in the world.
#About
Alvaro Videla works as Developer Advocate for Microsoft Azure. A former RabbitMQ core-dev, before moving to Europe he used to work in Shanghai where he helped building one of Germany biggest dating websites. He co-authored the book "RabbitMQ in Action" for Manning Publishing. Some of his open source projects can be found here: http://github.com/videlalvaro . Apart from code related stuff he likes traveling with his wife, listening/playing music and reading books. You can find him on Twitter as @old_sound (https://twitter.com/old_sound).