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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Boris Paskhaver

Boris Paskhaver is a New York City-based software engineer, author, and consultant. He\u2019s also been an online educator on Udemy since 2016.

After graduating from New York University in 2013 with a degree in Business Economics and Marketing, Boris worked as a business analyst, systems administrator, and data analyst for a variety of companies including a digital marketing agency, a financial services firm, and an international tech powerhouse. At one of those roles, he was fortunate enough to be challenged to build several projects with Python and JavaScript.\xa0

A small work interest quickly blossomed into a passionate weekend hobby. Eventually, Boris left his former role to complete App Academy, a rigorous full-stack web development bootcamp in NYC. The rest is history.

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Quotes

\u201cA lot of times I would start with excel and think about something I would do typically in excel and try to replicate it in python and pandas\u201c

\u201cI wanted to go to the hardest bootcamp and I chose App Academy because it had the lowest admission rate. I wanted to invest fully.\u201d

\u201cApp Academy took a percentage of the first year\u2019s salary rather than charge a huge tuition fee up front. After 4 years in college and 200K in debt I was not eager to invest in educational experience again with that model. I wanted someone who was willing to invest in me.\u201d

\u201cBootcamp was harder than being an engineer on a day to day basis\u201d

\u201cPandas is excel on steroids. It allows you to do the same operations you do in excel. When you\u2019re dealing with large datasets in excel your limit is about 1 million rows. And even when you have more than about 3000, it begins to slow down.\u201c

\u2014Boris Paskhaver

Key Milestones

1. Boris accidentally got into Python programming while at Indeed.com.\xa0
2. Boris actually landed his first couple of jobs in tech before doing a bootcamp.\xa0
3. Why did Boris decide to enroll in App Academy Bootcamp?
4. How did Boris get involved as an online educator on Udemy?
5. Boris also wrote a book \u2013 \u201cPandas in Action\u201d, from Manning Publications

Additional Resources

Boris\u2019s book \u201cPandas in Action\u201d from Manning Publications \u2013\xa0

Data Analysis with Python by Wesley Kinney \u2013 https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/python-for-data/9781491957653/

Check out App Academy Bootcamp \u2013 https://www.appacademy.io/bootcamp-prep?location=san-francisco

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