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HELLO // BRYAN LATTEN // DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE @ ADOBE //@BRYANLATTEN ABOUT ME Binghamton Alum (07), worked on lots of things Joined Lockheed Martin. Did not compute. Moved to NYC, joined a weird startup in Union Square Grew

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HELLO

// BRYAN LATTEN // DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE @ ADOBE //@BRYANLATTEN

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ABOUT ME

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Binghamton Alum (’07), worked on lots of things Joined Lockheed Martin. Did not compute. Moved to NYC, joined a weird startup in Union Square Grew from 5 to 70 team members Helped scale product from 30K to 10M members

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Software Architect: a love for the plumbing design Software Developer: reinventing the wheel since ever ScrapOpsTM: connecting bash pipes to themselves Bleeding Edge Enthusiast Dial Cranker: turn it up to 11 or bust

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Behance: founded by Scott Belsky + Matias Corea Bootstrapped with paper products, online think tank, an annual conference, and productivity tools Series A with USV in mid 2012 Acquired by Adobe Systems in early 2013

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OUR PLATFORMS:

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ABOUT BEHANCE.NET

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Showcase and discover creative work The LinkedIn of the creative world Connect best talent with opportunity Decades worth of inspiration, in many creative fields

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BE.NET IS OUR MAIN STAGE

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SEEN FROM 10K FT

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~10M members, in 128 disciplines 120,000 HTTP requests/min 18TB/day image data transferred 500GB/day/single featured project

BY THE NUMBERS (BE.NET)

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ABOUT PORTFOLIO

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Quickly and easily create fully responsive site from Behance content Optimized production assets, leveraged social effect from the Network

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HOW DO WE DO IT?

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LEVERAGE BEST-IN-CLASS TECHNOLOGY TO GET THE JOB DONE

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OK, NOW WHAT?

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HOW TO GO FROM STUDENT CANDIDATE

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JUST 5 THINGS:

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STEP ONE: YOU’RE NOT LOOKING FOR ANY OLD JOB

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Don’t play the numbers. Be picky about who you choose to send your resume to, craft lovingly. You are not a machine, avoid companies looking for one. Have and display a personality.

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Avoid shops looking for cogs in a machine Seek out hard problems in uncharted territory Look for a huge learning curve. Show excitement about diving into the deep end.

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Maintain outlook for unlimited growth potential Knowledge today is likely automated tomorrow The person that automates themselves out of a job will never be fired

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Always something new to learn, or million of ways to do it better. Recommendation: look for an intersection between technology and a company mission

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STEP TWO: DEMONSTRATE A PASSION FOR WHAT YOU DO

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Have the “hunger inside you” - Malcolm Jones Showcase an burning desire to learn Holds especially true in technology, where each job is a moving target.

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Try to not have an empty profile.

JOIN GITHUB. LEARN GIT.

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This is a new era in development Open-source software flourishes on Github Pick any language, find and use the best practices Use and contribute back to the community

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Solve real-world problems Show off your skills, both breadth and depth Contributions aren’t always code-based: contribute diagrams, docs, monitor issues

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READ EVERYTHING

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Includes articles, blogs, posts, tweets, etc. Keep a pulse on the community, developments Use something like feed.ly to aggregate Become an information sponge

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Attend local meetups (meetup.com or related) Get feedback from peers, community members Go to Hackathons. Make weird Hackathon friends Polish quick and dirty projects for showcase

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New products and solutions get new ways to

  • rganize, be an early contributor

Introduce isolated group members across related product boundaries, push for collaboration

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STEP THREE: HAVE AN OPINION, A CONSISTENT ONE

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Determine what, but most importantly, why State your religion upfront (vim vs. emacs) Focus on objectives, best practices, and usage Stand your ground, when appropriate

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THIS ALSO APPLIES TO WHERE AND WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO WORK SOMEWHERE

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Limit talk about common school projects Highlight personal technical challenges, how they were overcome

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STEP FOUR: BE SOMEONE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO WORK WITH

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CULTURE IS MAKE OR BREAK

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It’s better to have a hole in your team than an ***hole on your team

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—DAN JACOBS, APPLE INC.

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Employers absolutely look for you on social media Have a social network persona Embrace the modern workplace, it is increasingly casual, yet overly competitive

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STEP FIVE: DONT BE AFRAID TO FAIL

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Being burned is incredibly useful, so long as we learn from our mistakes. Experience is worth its weight, but measure progress by your corrections over time

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IN CLOSING: NEVER SETTLE

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You are a representative of this school, both past and present scholars are counting on you. You’re going to do great things. You just have to figure out which ones.

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THANK YOU!

BRYAN LATTEN // @BRYANLATTEN

behance-talent@adobe.com Come Work With Us!