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 from 5 to 70 team members Helped scale product from 30K to 10M members
Sof t ware Architect: a love for the plumbing design Sof t ware Developer: reinventing the wheel since ever ScrapOps TM : connecting bash pipes to themselves Bleeding Edge Enthusiast Dial Cranker: turn it up to 11 or bust
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
OUR PLATFORMS:
ABOUT BEHANCE.NET
Showcase and discover creative work The LinkedIn of the creative world Connect best talent with opportunity Decades worth of inspiration, in many creative fields
BE.NET IS OUR MAIN STAGE
SEEN FROM 10K FT
BY THE NUMBERS (BE.NET) ~10M members, in 128 disciplines 120,000 HTTP requests/min 18TB/day image data transferred 500GB/day/single featured project
ABOUT PORTFOLIO
Quickly and easily create fully responsive site from Behance content Optimized production assets, leveraged social e ff ect from the Network
HOW DO WE DO IT?
LEVERAGE BEST-IN-CLASS TECHNOLOGY TO GET THE JOB DONE
OK, NOW WHAT?
HOW TO GO FROM STUDENT CANDIDATE
JUST 5 THINGS:
STEP ONE: YOU’RE NOT LOOKING FOR ANY OLD JOB
Don’t play the numbers. Be picky about who you choose to send your resume to, craf t lovingly. You are not a machine, avoid companies looking for one. Have and display a personality.
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.
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
Always something new to learn, or million of ways to do it better. Recommendation: look for an intersection between technology and a company mission
STEP TWO: DEMONSTRATE A PASSION FOR WHAT YOU DO
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.
JOIN GITHUB. LEARN GIT. Try to not have an empty profile.
This is a new era in development Open-source sof t ware flourishes on Github Pick any language, find and use the best practices Use and contribute back to the community
Solve real-world problems Show o ff your skills, both breadth and depth Contributions aren’t always code-based: contribute diagrams, docs, monitor issues
READ EVERYTHING
Includes articles, blogs, posts, tweets, etc. Keep a pulse on the community, developments Use something like feed.ly to aggregate Become an information sponge
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
New products and solutions get new ways to organize, be an early contributor Introduce isolated group members across related product boundaries, push for collaboration
STEP THREE: HAVE AN OPINION, A CONSISTENT ONE
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
THIS ALSO APPLIES TO WHERE AND WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO WORK SOMEWHERE
Limit talk about common school projects Highlight personal technical challenges, how they were overcome
STEP FOUR: BE SOMEONE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO WORK WITH
CULTURE IS MAKE OR BREAK
“ It’s better to have a hole in your team than an ***hole on your team ” —DAN JACOBS, APPLE INC.
Employers absolutely look for you on social media Have a social network persona Embrace the modern workplace, it is increasingly casual, yet overly competitive
STEP FIVE: DONT BE AFRAID TO FAIL
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
IN CLOSING: NEVER SETTLE
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.
THANK YOU! BRYAN LATTEN // @BRYANLATTEN Come Work With Us! behance-talent@adobe.com
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