Mourjo Sen
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I have been working in the industry as a software engineer for 6+ years, mostly in the backend and data stacks. I am a software engineerby trade and a software artisan at heart!
Here are five things I'd love to tell you more about over coffee:
- I grew up in India, found my calling for Software Engineering in France during my Master's at Inria.
- I am interested in concurrency, distributed systems, performance engineering.
- I write code, love to write about code and talk about code. I recently spoke at In/Clojure 2019 and at re:Clojure 2020.
- I am currently working at Gojek as a backend engineer, previously at Helpshift.
- I love music from a bygone era: the 60s, 70s, 80s: from Queen to Sir Elton John to David Bowie.
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The metacircular impact of teaching FP
45 Mins
Case Study
Advanced
Doordash recently made their software engineers deliver food to better understand how the product works. https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1475953356644532230
Likewise, organisations that hire junior engineers should also explore into teaching/mentoring to better understand how to not just build a team but to create a self-sustaining legacy.
Over the last five years, I have taught programming to six people. The most consciously intentional effort being in the last eight months, where I taught programming to an experienced individual from a field that is completely unrelated to Computer Science. https://otee.dev
In this talk, I wish to summarise my findings about what I thought would work, what actually worked, and what I could improve on in hindsight.
It is also a critical appreciation of how functional programming concepts play a role in expediting the learner’s journey, even though it’s hard at first.
Lastly, I also wish to introspect on how the act of teaching has changed the way I think: primarily on how teaching has made a better engineer at my day job.
Footnote: Learning by teaching, oddly resembles the metacircular evaluator popularised through SICP.
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