Data & Dev with Jon and Mel
·S2 E10
S2E10: Career Path to Principal Architect - A Convo with Kexin Xie of Salesforce
Episode Description
Kexin's story is a great demonstration that sometimes building a career in tech is more about seeing and taking the opportunities placed before you rather than having a pre-planned series of steps to follow. In this episode we talked about:
- Intro and College in Australia
- Freelancer
- Learning in Industry
- Machine Learning at scale
- Distributed Computing
- Hiring for Distributed Computing roles
- Culture: China, Australia, USA
- Role of Software Architect
- Advice on finding the first role
- Closing Questions
You can find and follow Kexin on LinkedIn, Twitter and Github