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 424: Women On Rails and VirtualCoffee.io with Aurelie Verrot
June 29th, 2022 | 29 mins
Enchanté. Aurelie Verrot is a developer originally from France who now lives in California. She is Software Engineer at Zendesk, working in the i18n team. She answers all of Brittany's questions about working at Zendesk, translating the beloved Women On Rails newsletter and VirtualCoffee.io.
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Episode 423: Featuring Some of the Nicest People in Rubydom (Brittany + Nick)
June 22nd, 2022 | 32 mins 1 sec
Brittany and Nick took a foray into handheld console gaming before celebrating Nick's new role at Shopify on the Ruby/Rails Infra team. They chatted about their favorite parts of Railsconf including Nick's Ruby Archaeology talk and Shopify's Railsconf Afterparty Twitter Space. Also, Past Rubies is back!
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Episode 422: Object Shapes and Open Source (Brittany + Jemma)
June 15th, 2022 | 31 mins 11 secs
Brittany had questions about how to contribute to Ruby but luckily, Jemma was here to explain the process and explain her most recent proposal: Object shapes for Ruby. Object shapes are a technique for representing properties of an object. The two then debate reaching sustainable open source software.
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Episode 421: I've Been Here For Awhile with David Hill
June 8th, 2022 | 30 mins 31 secs
David Hill is a Staff Software Engineer with CareRev. He just gave his first ever conference presentation at RailsConf 2022, titled “React-ing to Hotwire”. He is thinking about starting a podcast (yes!) so he asks Brittany her thoughts on co-hosts and topics.
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Episode 420: The Railsconf 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel
June 1st, 2022 | 43 mins 43 secs
Live from Portland, OR is the Ruby Podcast Panel recording from Railsconf 2022! The panelists discuss why they are loyal to podcasting, the state of the Ruby and Rails communities, opening doors for juniors into our industry and themes they noted from the conference.
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Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian)
May 25th, 2022 | 24 mins 48 secs
Brian is back with his insights on how the Rails hiring market is fairing, the differences between JS and Rails recruiting, whether avoiding whiteboarding is a good sign and how companies can effectively evaluate potential developers.
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Episode 418: Flash Forward to Railsconf Day 2 with Andrea Fomera
May 18th, 2022 | 31 mins 23 secs
Andrea Fomera is a Senior Software Developer at Podia who finds enjoyment in updating dependencies and crafting high quality, robust and maintainable code. She and Brittany flash forward to Railsconf Day 2 to discuss Andrea's talk, goals for the conference and an epic quest to find the best donut in Portland.
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Episode 417: Treading Water & Panel Planning (Brittany + Jemma)
May 11th, 2022 | 29 mins 26 secs
Fresh off of treading water in a sweatsuit for a swim test, Brittany called up Jemma to do a live brainstorm for the Railsconf 2022 Podcast Panel. After discussing Jemma's team trip to London for Shopify, they go over the panel participants, moderation strategies and potential topics.
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Episode 416: Tackling Technical Texts with Steve Lynch
May 4th, 2022 | 35 mins 10 secs
Steve Lynch is an Engineering Manager at Root Insurance, working with a full-stack team on a Rails and React stack. Brittany invited Steve on to the show to discuss Engineering Management and his Rubyconf talk, "I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts" so she could tackle some texts on her bookshelf.
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Episode 415: Respect & Retros with Andrew Strovers
April 27th, 2022 | 28 mins 32 secs
Andrew Strovers is a Senior Software Engineer out of Omaha, Nebraska. Being that he has serious opinions on trust and communication in the workplace, he was the perfect guest to discuss retros: how to reward vulnerability, adjust to the remote components and incorporate fun.
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Episode 414: The RoR Podcast x Coders Coders Crossover Event with Drew Bragg
April 20th, 2022 | 44 mins 11 secs
Brittany interviews Drew Bragg, the Staff Engineer at Within3 and the host of the new Code and the Coding Coders who Code it podcast about his origin, his love of the Ruby community and their experience at Sin City Ruby. The pair then switch host seats and Drew interviews Brittany about her love of burpees, what she is working on, her blockers and what she currently finds interesting.
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Episode 413: Positivity and railsdevs with Joe Masilotti
April 13th, 2022 | 29 mins 20 secs
Joe Masilotti is an independent developer who specializes in Ruby on Rails, iOS, and automated testing. He helps clients port their Rails apps to iOS with Turbo Native. Brittany and Brian talk with Joe about building railsdevs in public, the challenges he has faced and the technical decisions he is proud of. They wrap up by discussing Joe's upcoming "Porting your Rails app to iOS with Turbo Native" workshop he has been inspired to do.
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Episode 412: Plant Killers (Brittany + Jemma + Emily)
April 6th, 2022 | 33 mins 6 secs
Emily is guesting as co-host this week with Jemma and Brittany! The trio celebrate Emily's new role at Shopify and discuss taking breaks between roles. Emily and Brittany just wrapped up reviewing CFPs for Railsconf so Jemma asks them about the patterns they observed. They wrap up by talking about their (not) green thumbs and home desk setups.
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Episode 411: Sin City Reunion (Brittany + Nick)
March 30th, 2022 | 32 mins 24 secs
Brittany and Nick gush about their long awaited reunion at Sin City Ruby in Las Vegas. They talk about talk prep, hype music, and even costume changes. After discussing how to pull off a company onsite and remote whiteboarding, they wrap by sharing their thoughts on "No Railsconf".
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Episode 410: Ruby Loyalty and Engineering Management with Ufuk Kayserilioglu
March 23rd, 2022 | 30 mins 34 secs
Ufuk is the Engineering Manager of the Ruby Infrastructure team (Jemma's team!) at Shopify. After transitioning his career from physics to software development, Ufuk has had the fortune of working with lots of interesting technologies at various levels of the stack. He, Jemma and Brittany chat about management philosophies, why he remains excited about Ruby and what is the ideal role for Shopify in the larger Ruby ecosystem.
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Episode 409: Ruby on Trails with Jennifer Konikowski
March 16th, 2022 | 34 mins 2 secs
Jennifer Konikowski had been doing mostly Rails since 2012, though is currently taking a detour and working in Go at Splice. She and Brittany talk about what lead her to Pittsburgh, her fitness journey and tips.