Podcasts Technology Screaming in the Cloud The New Way to Become an Engineer with Christie Brandao

The New Way to Become an Engineer with Christie Brandao

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.

b'Christie Brandao is a software engineer at Branch Insurance, a startup that uses serverless infrastructure to sell home and auto insurance more efficiently. Prior to this role, she worked as a developer at the LHT Group. In a previous life, she was also a Twitch.tv Partner and gained over 4 million views and 30,000 followers in that position. She\\u2019s also a graduate of App Academy, a full-stack engineering boot camp.\\n\\nJoin Corey and Christie as they talk about what it\\u2019s like to work for an insurance startup, Christie\\u2019s thoughts on whether her four-year degree or boot camp experience better prepared her for her role at Branch, how serverless technology empowers Christie to do her best work while ignoring things like availability and scalability, how Branch was running on AWS credits for two years and why that\\u2019s mind-boggling, Christie\\u2019s advice for people interested in learning serverless technology, and more.'