MRS 030: Cameron Dutro

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: MRS 030: Cameron Dutro
• Website: Ruby Rogues
• Feed URL: https://feeds.feedwrench.com/RubyRogues.rss
• Duration: 00:39:09
• Published: 2018-02-08 05:03

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Cameron Dutro

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Cameron Dutro. Cameron is a return guest from Ruby Rogues. Currently, Cameron works at Lumosity, a company that creates brain games & brain training application for web and mobile.  Cameron mention working on the platform team working with internationalization.

Cameron talks about his journey into programming, starting at the age of 4 and being fascinated an IBM 85XT computer and flight simulator games. Cameron describes is early interactions with programming in elementary and high school. Then moving into a professional field after college at Twitter and eventually at Lumosity. Cameron talks about his next projects and his contributions to the Ruby community.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get introduced to programming?
• At the age of 4, Cameron was fascinated with computers and games
• In elementary started writing games with Basic and Visual Basic 6
• Wrote a prank program
• In high school moved to C# and.Net
• Windows and PC
• Got a computer science degree
• Work at Flutter and Twitter
• Then joined Lumosity
• 2011 - Twitter as a startup
• Ruby Projects
• Ruby Gem  - Arrow Helpers
• Turbo Sprocket Rails 4
• Games at Lumosity
• What are you working on these days?
• Password and Login app
• Pron PDF - TTFunk
• Masters in Computer Science in the works
• Should I get a degree? Advantages? - NO
• Getting a job in tech?
• When you might need a degree - AI, Machine Learning
• and much, much more!

Links:  

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/camerondutro
• https://github.com/camertron
• http://camerondutro.com
• @camertron
• https://www.lumosity.com
• https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/267-rr-internationalization-with-cameron-dutro
• Platform Engineer and Dev Ops Opening at Lumosity!

Picks

Cameron

• The Far Side Comic Strips
• The Fox Trot
• Sunday Comics
• Amazon Lightsail
• Mental Health - Preventing Burnout

Charles

• Recording interviews with speakers at conferences
• Sponsorship for conferences
• Video Recording Kit
• Zoom H6