Brittany Martin
Brittany Martin is an Engineering Manager at Shogun, co-host of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, and she plays roller derby for Steel City Roller Derby under the pseudonym “Merge Conflict”.
She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and she tweets at @brittjmartin
Brittany Martin has hosted 399 Episodes.
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Episode 473: Personal Branding & Strongly Held BBQ Opinions with Cody Norman
June 7th, 2023 | 32 mins 3 secs
Making his podcast debut, Cody Norman is a former Loan Officer and current Independent Ruby on Rails consultant. He enjoys mentoring, working with early career developers and is an Engineering Mentor at The Agency of Learning. He joins Brittany to discuss personal branding, the importance of showing up every day and how he approaches mentoring early career developers.
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Episode 472: All I Wanted Was An Environment Variable (thoughtbot) with Victoria Guido and Joe Ferris
May 31st, 2023 | 30 mins 2 secs
Victoria Guido, Managing Director of Business Development and DevOps Strategy, and Joe Ferris, CTO, of thoughtbot stop by to talk about Victoria's recent trip to Ruby Kaigi, thoughtbot's contributions to the Ruby / Rails communities, goals for their podcasts, Platform Engineering for Ruby on Rails engineers and the thoughtbot Incubator program.
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Episode 471: RubyKaigi 2023 Recap (Brittany + Jemma)
May 24th, 2023 | 27 mins 5 secs
The moderator of Ruby Committers and the World, Jemma, answers all of Brittany's questions about her recent trip to Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan for RubyKaigi 2023. The pair talk about Matz's keynote, the panel and Jemma's recent work on YARP.
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Episode 470: A Smorgasbord of Topics (Brittany + Nick)
May 17th, 2023 | 33 mins 25 secs
Brittany and Nick are back together again! Brittany talks about on boarding as an Engineering Manager at Shogun as a Shogie. The two discuss standup preferences, multi-timezone communications, bonding over incidents and Nick's latest venture: rChat.
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Episode 469: Railsconf 2023: A Ruby Community Podcast Live!
May 10th, 2023 | 37 mins 22 secs
Listen to Brittany Martin (The Ruby on Rails Podcast), Jason Charnes (Remote Ruby) and Paul Bahr (Peachtree Sound) as they interview guests from the community on a live podcast at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, GA.
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Episode 468: Railsconf 2023 Recap with Drew Bragg and Joël Quenneville
May 3rd, 2023 | 38 mins 12 secs
Joël and Drew join Brittany post-conference to discuss their experience at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. The trio thank the organizers, share tales from speaking and discuss their favorite talks. They wrap by discussing the new Ruby Central individual memberships and their conference plans for the rest of the year.
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Episode 467: The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino
April 26th, 2023 | 33 mins 26 secs
Amanda Perino is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Rails Foundation. Brittany interviewed Amanda and the pair discuss all of the exciting initiatives coming out of the Foundation, the Rails community members who are helping with the efforts and advice coming from other software communities.
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Episode 466: Pairing on Code and Conference Talks with Selena Small and Michael Milewski
April 19th, 2023 | 32 mins 27 secs
Selena Small and Michael Milewski are a pair of Senior developers from Melbourne, Australia that not only love to pair on code but getting ready for a world tour of conference talks. Fresh off the roles as co-MCs for Rubyconf AU, the pair speak with Jemma and Brittany about why they are advocates for pairing, some pairing horror stories and how they would describe the Australian Ruby community.
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Episode 465: Why Companies Don't Hire Juniors with Alex Ghiculescu
April 12th, 2023 | 33 mins 58 secs
Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Workforce.com, a workforce management product built on Ruby on Rails. The topic of hiring Juniors has been a common theme lately but he joins Brittany and Brian to discuss why companies are actually avoiding it. The trio debate in-office training, salaries and promotions.
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Episode 463: The Tightly Coupled Book Club with Mina and Aji Slater
March 29th, 2023 | 36 mins 7 secs
Mina Slater (she/her) is a senior developer with Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps, platform engineering and SRE team. Aji Slater (they/them) is a development team lead at thoughtbot on Lift-Off, thoughtbot’s team that specializes in new product development and launch. Together, they guest on the podcast to discuss their new podcast: The Tightly Coupled Book Club. They pitch the concept to Brittany, ask Brittany for advice and discuss feedback from Brittany's initial listen.
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Episode 462: Scarpe Diem: Seize the Shoes (Brittany + Nick)
March 22nd, 2023 | 34 mins 49 secs
What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is trying to tackle on a side project. Nick shares his experience at a coveted Sandi Metz workshop and they wrap on a personal update from Brittany.
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Episode 461: ccyalater and Merge Conflict Hit the Track! with Colleen Leonard
March 15th, 2023 | 33 mins 48 secs
Colleen Leonard has been working in tech since 2015, first as a Front-End Developer and then as a recruiter. She is currently a Technical Recruiter at Test Double. She joins Brittany to chat technical recruitment in Part 1 and then roller derby in Part 2. Let's roll.
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Episode 460: The State of Rails Hiring in 2023 (Brittany + Brian)
March 8th, 2023 | 33 mins 1 sec
In 2022, "Rails Hiring is Still Hot" was our most listened to episode! By popular demand, Brian is back to give us the state of the Ruby on Rails hiring market for 2023. Brittany and Brian discuss his clients, advice for those who have a job and advice for those who are seeking a role in this weird market.
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Episode 459: Blue Ridge Ruby with Jeremy Smith and Mark Locklear
March 1st, 2023 | 32 mins
Jeremy Smith is a designer/developer who runs a tiny one-person web studio called HYBRD. Mark Locklear is a Web Developer and Project Manager at the Extension Foundation. Together, they are co-hosting Blue Ridge Ruby, a two-day, single-track conference featuring ten speakers, plus lightning talks. The conference will be held at the historic Masonic Temple in downtown Asheville on Thursday, June 8th and Friday, June 9th.
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Episode 458: LEARN Academy with Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman
February 22nd, 2023 | 40 mins 48 secs
Brittany has a trio today! Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman from LEARN Academy join her to discuss the academy's origin story, curriculum and how they garner interest for their program. They dive deeper into their internship program and how an internship is one of the most accessible ways to start bringing juniors into the team.
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Episode 457: This Week In Rails with Emmanuel Hayford
February 15th, 2023 | 26 mins 55 secs
Emmanuel Hayford is an independent Rails Consultant and a co-editor of "The Weeks in Rails". He excitedly tells Brittany his favorite upcoming features for Rails 7.1 and his favorite features that shipped with Ruby 3.2. They wrap the episode discussing why community content is so important.