Career Focus Interview with a Senior Python Developer

Today as my guest I am hosting Anton Delgado, who currently works as a Senior Python Developer and before spent 7 years for Big 4 firm.

I will discuss with him how he made the transition from Audit to Consulting and finally Software Development. In our conversation we discussed how you can always continue learning thereby developing new skills, asking the tough questions of whether you want to continue the career track you started after university, how technology is changing and impacting the world around us and many other interesting topics.

Bookmark:

 0:00 - 4:25 Introductions

4:25 - 8:10 University overall and 1^st Career Choice

8:10 - 11:45 Big 4 Experience and a passion for programming emerges

11:45 - 18:05 Expectations and how your career will evolve over time

18:05 - 25:09 Day to day work in Big 4 and how the transition to programming happened

25:09 - 37:21 Working styles discussion and how to manage people

37:21 - 51:23 Technology discussion on development and capabilities (and how the financial world runs on Excel)

51:24 - 53:54 Hobbies

53:54 -54:54 10 years in the future

54:54 – 56:54 Top 3 Apps

56:55 – 59:20 Advice and final comments

Note: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in no way reflect the views of any organization, company, or institution.

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