Web Assembly, Golang, and Perl With Damian Gryski

Damian Gryski is a Principal Software Developer at Fastly who was highly advanced throughout his academic career and always had an interest in math. He works on TinyGo support for Fastly’s computed edge product and has been working with Golang for 10+ years. In this episode he takes us on a journey through his path to becoming an accomplished Software Engineer. 00:00 Introduction 09:30 Creating the timeline14:25 What type of programs were you writing?19:20 Did you struggle with math? 23:00 Being advanced in high school24:40 What were your parents like? 26:15 Interest in juggling30:40 Thoughts heading into university34:00 Was university difficult?37:44 Graduating university and internships42:00 Post Graduate Jobs48:50 What was exciting about writing Perl? 55:30 Getting into Golang1:02:50 Moving on from Booking.com1:09:50 Discussing Wasm1:20:20 Contact infoConnect with Damian: Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgryskiMentioned in today’s episode:Fastly: https://www.fastly.comBooking: https://www.booking.com/Perl: https://www.perl.org/Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs