MJS 042: Kassandra Perch

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Kassandra Perch This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kassandra Perch. Kassandra is a return guest from JavaScript Jabber episode 197. Kassandra is a developer relations engineer for IOpipe, that does AWS Lambda monitoring and visibility in the server-less space.  Kassandra talks about her journey into program through game sharks or programming game cartridges. Also, furthering her interest in programming was taking computer science courses in college, and getting a part-time job in the technology field during college while networking. Kassandra shares her favorite contributions to javascript and open source projects.  In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming? Game Sharks Game Cartridges Austin Meetup Group and JavaScript Working in the open source community  College courses Contributions - Nodebotanist  Interest in education  and being autistic  Child of a teacher  Serving the community  Helping people with projects  IOT - Internet of Things Building Robots Serverless  What are you working on now?  AVR Girl and much, much more! Links:  https://www.iopipe.com https://github.com/nodebotanist https://github.com/noopkat/avrgirl http://johnny-five.io IOpipe Picks Kassandra Sue Hitten Johnny 5  Serverless Framework  Charles  VS Code Azure pluggin  Serverless Framework Amanda Silver interview  More VS Code Interviews on Dev Chat TV