Brandon Mathis: Modern Software Engineering & App Security - Imperial Security Bureau Podcast 15

Brandon Mathis is a talented Full Stack Developer in Raleigh, NC currently serving as CTO of vTestify. He runs Triangle Devs, a prominent local meetup/slack/discord group. He is a lifelong tinkerer, coder & product builder. He's also a husband, dad, gamer, and writer. His has a focus on web development using: Javascript (Node, React, ect), Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, Chef), DevOps (AWS, Ansible, Docker), Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Design, REST API Development, and SQL/NoSQL. If you're trying to build high quality software products at scale and planning to leverage local Raleigh talent you should start by scheduling a conversation with Brandon.

GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathisbrandon/
Website: www.brandonmathis.me
GitHub: https://github.com/BrandonMathis
Triangle Devs: https://triangledevelopers.com/
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/triangle-devs/

TIMESTAMPS:
1:36 - Favorite movie
5:28 - Star Wars chat
9:07 - Acolyte cancellation
13:57 - How he landed in software engineering
21:26 - Golang vs Rust
24:59 - His favorite language
26:58 - JavaScript vs TypeScript
29:57 - Where he recommends newbies start coding
33:09 - Would he recommend getting in a dev career
35:05 - GitHub Go-Pilot
37:21 - Dev skills becoming part of life
43:03 - Mac or PC
46:15 - Alfred on Mac
46:43 - Spotlight on iPhone
51:28 - His recent focus on Cybersecurity
54:34 - Polyfill.js hack
58:48 - Reallocation from QA to Cybersecurity
1:00:17 - Why can't devs test their own code
1:04:44 - No size company is immune to cyber attacks
1:05:34 - Ethics of storing passwords properly
1:08:26 - What happened to Agile / Scrum
1:13:32 - Best way to measure dev performance
1:19:53 - Cheaply made Agencyware vs American Made Software
1:21:24 - Boeing Disasters
1:28:14 - Roller skates vs Rollerblades
1:29:50 - Snowblades
1:31:18 - Future of AI writing code
1:34:19 - What Shopify did to eCommerce development
1:36:17 - TikTok shop vs YouTube
1:37:49 - Gen Z never leaves social media
1:39:00 - Where can you find Brandon

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