Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 374 | Tom Elliott - The Right Guidance at the Right Times
Guest:
Tom Elliott talks with Dave Rael about performing, speaking, leadership, user experience, and the joys of the human side of software development
Tom Elliott is an Engineer and Team Lead at Yext, provider of the leading Digital Knowledge Management platform. Tom is a lover of side projects, some of which include Edward, a command-line tool for managing local instances of microservices and Speaker Alert, a mobile app for timing speeches. Outside of technical pursuits, Tom is an avid public speaker, and posts far too many puns on social media.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Tom Elliott
- - What technical speakers can learn from other types of performing
- - Preparation for speaking
- - Tom's side projects and coding hobby
- - How Tom got started in software
- - Solving a problem and sharing the solution
- - Tom's story of failure - falling short on thinking through user experience
- - Learning, doing, and the Pareto Principle
- - Mixed-stack environments and tools that work for you
- - Tom's book recommendation
- - How Tom wound up trying life and work in New York
- - How Tom stays current with what he needs to know
- - Tom on leadership and management
- - Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Tom
Resources:
Tom's book recommendation:
Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Put people first
- Prepare for everything you do
- If you are good at something, you probably won't realize your'e good at it
