Perspectives from the archive

Frank Kim described how resolving application vulnerabilities gradually drew him from development into security.

Maggie Amato recalled how work involving veterans’ health records made the human purpose of a technical project more immediate.

Billy Langenstein traced his event career to handing out water and learning about the people doing the work.

Kenneth Townsend recalled colleagues helping him improve how he led, followed through and understood the business.

Zinet Kemal described learning how to self-publish after her children’s questions inspired a book.

Ravi Khatod recalled learning to explain why a technology investment deserved a place among the customer’s business priorities.

Stef Tschida described carrying journalistic questioning into work helping other people communicate.

Russell Eubanks described initially turning away from invitations to teach because he compared himself with the instructors he admired.

Octavia Howell recalled doing security-related work before she knew all the terminology used to describe it.

Eoin Hinchy described an operations team whose manual workload grew alongside its ability to detect problems.