Tampa Bay mobile developer jobs on LinkedIn as of this morning. Tap to view at full size.
While checking LinkedIn this morning, I noticed that there were a lot of iOS and Android developer jobs in the Tampa Bay area, and many of them didn’t have any applicants (or at least any applicants who applied via LinkedIn).
I quickly cobbled the image above from screenshots of LinkedIn’s Jobs sections that I took this morning. If you know UIKit from SwiftUI or can tell your RecyclerViews from your ListViews and either live in Tampa Bay or want to move to our sunny shores, there’s a lot of opportunity right here, right now.
Screenshot as of July 1, 2021. Tap to view the source.
…and trust me on this one: If you can combine mobile development skills with people skills, you can make a little more.
Learn Android development with GDG SunCoast
We’ve got a GDG (Google Developer Group) right here in Tampa Bay — GDG SunCoast — and they host an Android Study Jam every Wednesday evening. It’s an online event that’s free of charge to attend, and they walk you through Google’s official Android/Kotlin tutorials. It’s a great place to get to know other locals with an interest in Android development, ask questions, and even win prizes!
I’m going to try and catch as many of these as I can. I hope to see you there!
Returning soon: The Programmers of Portables meetup!
A few years back, I started the Tampa iOS Meetup with Angela Don, and over time, it mutated into Programmers of Portables.
The pandemic, my job search, and a lot of work at Auth0 have kept me from holding a meetup in some time, but I’m already working on plans to bring it back. Watch this space, and get ready to learn iOS, Android, and IoT development tricks!
Speaking of Auth0…
Keep an eye on the Auth0 developer blog, where I’m one of the editors. I’m working on a lot of articles about mobile and Python development, and you’ll start seeing them there soon!
Once again, it’s time to list Tampa Bay podcasts that you, the Global Nerdy reader, might find informative, interesting, and illuminating!
In the last list, I listed the podcasts from longest-running to newest. As is the tradition with this list, I’m listing them from newest to longest-running this time. They are:
Space and Things
Friends That Code
The Mike Dominick Show
The 6 Figure Developer
Thunder Nerds
And now, the podcasts…
Space and Things is the newest podcast on this list, and it’s about…well, you get three guesses. Just read its name.
Space and Things features two hosts:
Emily Carney: A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is hosted by the National Space Society.In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters, of which I am a member. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 20,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.
Dave Giles: Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.
STP 43 — We’re joined by author Elizabeth Howell to discuss her new book ‘Leadership Moments from NASA – Achieving The Impossible’ which is co-written with former Canadian Astronaut Dr. Dave Williams who is also a former director of Space and Life Sciences at NASA. The book is set for release on July 6th.
STP 42 — This week we’re joined again by Christina Korp, this time to talk all about her organisation ‘Space For A Better World’ and the the zero gravity flight that is coming up with Apollo 16 moonwalker Charlie Duke. We hear all about her recent flight with Charlie and Nicole Stott, and their tour of the Artemis rocket and space craft at Kennedy Space Center.
STP 41 — This year’s Spacefest will take place from July 15th- 18th at the JW Marrito Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona. We asked one of the organisers Kelsey Poor to come and talk to us about what it is, how it started and why you want to be there. Spacefest is organised by Novaspace, an online store for space art, astronaut autographs and memorabilia. Definitely worth checking out.
STP 40 — This week we talk about Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s Space Coast. We discuss a few of our favourite parts and what not to miss, plus some tips for what to see and do around the area.
STP 39 — This week we’re joined by not one, but two astronauts! Mike Massimino and Garrett Reisman have just started their own podcast ‘2 Funny Astronauts’ – so we asked them if they’d like to come and talk to us all about it and to speak more about life as an astronaut and some of the other wonderful things they’ve been able to do. Not only were they funny, but it’s also pretty damn inspirational.
STP 38 — This week we were joined by legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin to discuss the 50th anniversary of Apollo 14 and Apollo 15. We obviously had some other questions for him too, but we really want to hear about those missions, and boy did he deliver. At 86 years old, he remembered things in such incredible detail and was an absolute pleasure to talk to. This was very kind set up by Max Kaiserman of Luna Replicas (check out episode 15 of our podcast), so he also joined us for this wonderful discussion. We really hope that Max can join us for more chats in the future, a true friend of the podcast.
STP 37 — There have been some things happen in the space industry this week that we’re not happy about, so we speak about that but also offer a positive story as well as we talk to Czarina Salido, founder of Taking Up Space, a charity which sends Native American girls to Space Camp.
STP 36 — It’s finally happened. We’ve got a whole show dedicated to Skylab. That’s right, this week Emily talks us through 5 random facts about Skylab which maybe you knew, or maybe you didn’t, but either way, it’s something she’s incredibly passionate about and thus very entertaining and educational at the same time.
Friends That Code is hosted by Mike Traverso, whom locals may know from the Tampa Bay Google Developers Group meetup and other Google-y events. In this podcast, he showcases…
…some amazing people I know that just happen to write code for a living. Whether they started off intending to code or just happened into it, we get to hear about the types of people you’ll meet, things you’ll get to do, jobs you’ll have along the way, and advice from some awesome coders along the way!
Here are the most the three most recent Friends That Code podcasts:
…a show dedicated to helping developers to grow their career. Topics include Test Driven Development, Clean Code, Professionalism, Entrepreneurship, as well as the latest and greatest programming languages and concepts.
Episode 201 — Sustainable OSS with Rockford Lhotka: Rocky is an open source and distributed systems architect, author, and speaker. He’s currently CTO at Cognizant Softvision and calls Eden Prairie, Minnesota home.
Episode 199 – Redis with Guy Royse: Guy works for Redis Labs as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for sharing what he has learned, Guy goes out into developer communities and helps others build great software.
Episode 198 – DAPR with Cecil Phillip: Cecil is a Cloud Advocate at @Microsoft, Podcaster, Teacher, Swimmer, & Music Lover. Born and Raised in Antigua, he now calls Fort Lauderdale, FL home.
Episode 197 – .NET Data with Jeremy Likness: Jeremy is a Senior Program Manager for .NET Data at Microsoft. His personal mission is to empower developers to be their best. In this episode Jeremy shares all about .NET Data using EF Core, GraphQL, .NET for Spark, and much more. He also speaks about his recent diagnosis and starting a podcast to help others with Parkinson’s Disease.
Episode 196 – .NET 6 Preview with Rich Lander: Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Core team. He works on making .NET Core work great in memory-limited Docker containers, on ARM hardware like the Raspberry Pi, and enabling GPIO programming and IoT scenarios. He is part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. He enjoys British rock and Doctor Who. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.
Episode 195 – Orleans with Reuben Bond: Reuben is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft working on the Orleans distributed systems framework. Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building robust, scalable distributed applications. Orleans builds on the developer productivity of .NET and brings it to the world of distributed applications, such as cloud services. Orleans scales from a single on-premises server to globally distributed, highly-available applications in the cloud.
Episode 194 – Teams and Power Platform with Christina Wheeler: Christina is currently a Principal Solution Architect at Canviz Consulting and part-time Trainer for Critical Path Training. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Christina has knowledge in SharePoint Development, Administration, Branding, and Business Intelligence. She also specializes in search and leveraging ECM features in SharePoint. When teaching, Christina brings her real-world experience to the classroom. Currently residing in Middle Georgia, Christina is a highly respected Microsoft 365 consultant who is extremely active in the technology community. She was the tech editor of “SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog”, co-author of the “SharePoint 2010 Field Guide”, and co-author of “SharePoint 2013 Inside Out.” She enjoys contributing articles to technical websites and often speaks at tech community events and conferences. Christina has a strong passion for technology and when she’s not working on SharePoint, she is either cooking, enjoying photography, spending time with her recently graduated college daughter, and spending time with her lovable dogs.
Of the podcasts in this roundup, Thunder Nerds — “A conversation with the people behind the technology, that love what they do… and do tech good” — has been around the longest, with 283 episodes over five seasons to date. You’ve probably seen the hosts at local meetups and conferences; they’re Frederick Philip Von Weiss and Brian Hinton.
283 – 🔊 Voice Content And Usability with Preston So: In this episode, we get to talk with Preston So, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Oracle. We talk to Preston about his new book VOICE CONTENT AND USABILITY. We discuss the concepts of building conversational designs that are ethical, accessible, and usable.
282 – 🪴 How To Grow Your Own Digital Garden with Maggie Appleton: In this episode, we get to speak with Maggie Appleton, Art Director & UX Designer at egghead.io. We discuss the ethos of Digital Gardening and the value of cultivating ideas in public. We also dive into Maggie’s digital anthropology work and discuss how visual metaphors better shape our understanding of technology.
281 – 💻 Empowering Women in Tech with Arit Amana: In this episode, we get to speak with Arit Amana: Software Engineer, Founder, Writer, Mentor, and Conference Speaker. We discuss Arit’s day-to-day as a Software Engineer and her career journey. We also dive into Arit’s organization OurTimeForTech.org, a nonprofit online program that empowers early-career & career-changing Women in Tech!
280 – 🎹 R&D Content Engineering with Joey deVilla: In this episode, we get to speak with Joey deVilla: Tech Evangelist, Author, Senior R&D Content Engineer, and rock and roll accordionist. We discuss Joey’s new job at Auth0, what it takes to be an R&D Content Engineer, and an array of super cool technologies.
Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 28 through Sunday, July 4, 2021.
This is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy! For the past four years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Don’t forget that this coming weekend is the holiday weekend, with the 4th of July falling on the Sunday. This the one of the slowest weeks of the year, when many people take their holidays, so if your event is scheduled on or near the 4th, make sure you double-check with its organizers to be sure that it’s actually taking place!
Who says you can’t come home again? Tech entrepreneur Byron Crowell comes back to Tampa to rebuild company he found two decades ago, and to spur the next generation of local innovators.
Equity firms acquire pair of homegrown Sarasota tech companies — In separate deals, private equity and asset management firms have acquired a pair of Sarasota homegrown tech companies that specialize in online affiliate and pay-for-performance, or clicks, marketing.
Tech accelerator showcases healthcare disruptors — The Florida-Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA)’s latest Connection to Innovation event welcomed a pair of healthcare startup founders as well as a familiar face in Rachel Feinman, the organization’s former executive director who earlier this year joined Tampa General Hospital (TGH) as vice president of innovation.
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Looking for work in the Tampa Bay area? Check out tomorrow’s virtual event, HireUp Florida Tampa Bay, which happens tomorrow (Thursday, June 24th) from 11:00 a.m. through to 2:00 p.m.!
Here’s their write-up:
This virtual event is powered by HireUP Florida, designed to introduce hiring companies to job seekers as well as provide an opportunity for job seekers to network with each other. In this unique platform, job seekers will have the opportunity to introduce themselves, ask questions, and connect with recruiters for local Tampa Bay staffing firms.
Tickets are first-come-first-served with a wait-list. Register early to secure your spot!
There will be a mix + mingle prior to this event for job seekers to provide event overview details and allow time for networking in a casual environment.
A number of hiring companies will be participating:
Once again, “tickets” to this event are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and there will be a waiting list if the event fills up. Register now and land a job!
Tampa Bay Tech, our local technology council, is hosting poweredUP Tech Tracks,a virtual afternoon conference featuring the Tampa Bay area’s top tech people, tomorrow (Thursday, June 24th) from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. EDT!
Join us for Tampa Bay Tech’s Q2 signature event! This is a *new* program built specifically for our members and even more specifically, for our tech teams, in partnership with our Emerging Tech Leaders Peer Council. Sessions will be “tech talks” provided by our area technologists, FOR our technologists!
There will be over 20 subject matter experts from companies such as Tech Data, AgileThought, Accenture, AHEAD, AWS, CrossBorder Solutions, Jabil, Microsoft, Nutanix, Salesforce, Schellman, and many more!. Jamie Grant, CIO, State of Florida. will be our Keynote Speaker. You don’t want to miss it!
Agenda
Here’s the agenda for poweredUp Tech Tracks, which has main stage sessions, along with four parallel tracks of breakout sessions, all of which are hosted by local and regional people in the tech sector.
Quincy Jordan, Digital Transformation and Enterprise Agile Leader, AgileThought
1:50
2021 Tech Investments Already Paying Dividends
Bryn Norton, Vice President IT Solutions, Lumen
2:20
Digital Experience – From Strategy to Product
Kristen Christensen, Digital Experience Studio Director, Accenture
2:50
Work From Anywhere – Shaping the Future of Digital Workspaces
Chris Feeney, Channel Presales Engineer, Mike Barmonde, Business, IGEL Development Manager & Carl Gersh, Senior Director of Marketing, IGEL
3:20
Data Platform Modernization in Healthcare
Lee Pierce, Healthcare Chief Data Officer, Sirius Computer Solutions
3:50
Five Digital Imperatives and Technology Stitching
Pam Coffey, Field CTO, AHEAD
4:20
Staying Competitive in Today’s War on Talent
Scott Wallin, Senior Director, Kforce
4:50
Closing remarks
Jeremy Wilson, CTO, Amscot Financial & Chair of Tampa Bay Tech
Breakout sessions
There are four tracks of breakout sessions, which start at 1:20, immediately after the “State of the State” keynote:
Data sessions
Cyber sessions
Innovation sessions
Software/agile
Data Sessions track
1:20
Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Programmable Data Infrastructure Alex Hesterberg, Chief Customer Officer, Delphix
1:50
AI/ML Laura Squier, AI/ML Specialist, AWS
2:20
Opportunities on Self-Service Analytics Miguel Medina, Director of Data Integration & Analytics, Jabil
2:50
Understanding Social Media and Data Analysis Eddie Morales and Kaitlyn Brooks, CIW – Certification Partners
Cyber Sessions track
1:20
Safer App Development with the OWASP Top 10 Jonathan Singer, SIEM & SOAR Practice Lead, Guidepoint Security
1:50
Lessons Learned From a Year of Remote Security Assessments Jacob Ansari, CISO
2:20
Supercharging Connected Vehicles with Identity Management (From 0 to 60 in Less than a Second) Bill Nelson, President, Identity Fusion
2:50
Ransomware 2021: “The Call Came From Inside the House…” Christopher Bonavita, Technology Solution Specialist, Lumen
Innovation Sessions track
1:20
Borrowing Digital Innovation & Business Transformation Ideas from Non-Conventional Industries Charlie Lawhorn, Chief Digital Advisor, World Wide Technology
1:50
Driving Digital Accessibility Jacque Madison, Senior IT Manager, Jabil
2:20
Powering Collaboration in the Hybrid Workplace Christy Nelson, Global Vice President Strategy & Partnerships, Cyviz
2:50
Easy Road to Hybrid Cloud with Nutanix Clusters Dwayne Lessner, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix
3:20
Creating Sustainable Computer Science Education Luis De Mendoza, Microsoft TEALS
Software / Agile track
1:20
Agile Assessment: Helpful Remedy or Harmful Toxin? Dan Neumann, Principal Consultant, AgileThought
1:50
Scaling Out An Agile- and DevOps-Driven Organization Donald Bickel, Partner, MercuryWorks
2:20
AWS Lambdas Can Be Much More Cory Parrish, SVP of Engineering, Crossborder Solutions
2:50
Building the Modern Mobile Application Prototype (that actually works!) Russell Youngblood, Solution Architect, Outsystems
3:20
Scaling Your Company with GraphQL, Microservices and Kubernetes Josh Rendeck, Director of Platform Engineering, SecureWorks
3:50
Meet MAS Doug Sullinger, CEO, Vendita
4:20
Cloud Architecture for Disaster Recovery Steve Woodard, Solutions Architect, AWS
With the post-pandemic “Great Resignation” (which is expected to happen soon if it isn’t happening already) comes a great number of job opportunities, especially in the tech sector. For many techies, it’s a chance to move to the next step in their career, and for people just getting into tech, it’s their moment to land their first job in the field. That means a tech job search, which in turn means tech job interviews.
The event will be hosted by Kasandra Perez of Computer Coach, who’s worth getting to know if you want to get into tech and need to pick up some skills. She’ll walk you through the three core areas of the technical interview. namely:
Coding skills,
Problem-solving, and
Personality.
Flow Davis
Providing extra insight into rocking the tech interview will be guest speaker Flow Davis, who’s a Tampa Bay techie with over 13 years of experience developing Digital Marketing Websites and applications for Agencies, Startups & Fortune 500 companies.
At the time of writing, almost 70 people have signed up for this session, which means there are almost 70 Tampa Bay techies who are going to learn tech interview tips, tricks, and techniques that you might not know. Sign up, catch the session, and don’t get left behind!
Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 21 through Sunday, June 27, 2021.
This is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy! For the past four years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s ONLINE and OUTDOOR events
I’m holding off on listing indoor in-person events for a little longer. In the meantime, enjoy this list of events that are either online or in-person and outdoors!
Tampa Bay Tech’s “Tech Tracks 2021” virtual event this Thursday
Tampa Bay Tech is holding Tech Tracks 2021, its big Q2 virtual event on Thursday afternoon. It will feature tech talks provided by Tampa Bay area technologists, for Tampa Bay area technologists. Tickets are $25.00, and are cheaper for Tampa Bay Tech members. Here’s the agenda:
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Video: Tampa Bay’s biggest strengths, weakness and opportunities, according to Silicon Valley executives
Tampa Bay Wave welcomes 15 startups to latest accelerator cohort
From “several hundred” applications, Tampa Bay Wave selected fifteen tech startups from the U.S. and beyond to be admitted to their 2021 TechDiversity Accelerator. Find out more about them here.
7 questions to ask before relocating your startup to Florida
If you’ve got a TechCrunch “Extra Crunch” subscription, you can read the entirely of this article by Embarc Collective’s Lakshmi Shenoy. I don’t have one, so could somebody please tell me what the final 4 questions are?
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