Becoming the .NET GC Architect with Maoni Stephens

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. 1:37 - Maoni's path to find her GC passion 4:20 - Trying out the PM path with GC 5:15 - What it means to be a GC architect and working with customers 8:40 - 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 #dotnet #developerinterview #dotnetdeveloper