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 408: Functionally Fit with Mike Coutermarsh
March 9th, 2022 | 34 mins 35 secs
Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals.
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Episode 407: Get to Senior with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo (hexdevs)
March 2nd, 2022 | 35 mins 43 secs
Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo, the duo behind hevdevs, join Brittany to discuss their new course launch "Get to Senior", sharing your career goals with your manager and how to feel like a promotion was deserved.
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Episode 406: Default to Action with Tanner Johnson and Nick Gervasi
February 23rd, 2022 | 32 mins 8 secs
Tanner Johnson, Engineer, and Nick Gervasi, CTO, of Flowdash join Brittany to talk about why they chose Rails, how customers deploy their app on premise and the design of their internal users dashboard. They wrap up discussing the perks and challenges of all engineers being involved in growth, sales, and marketing at Flowdash.
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Episode 405: Dev Rel and Second Career Developers with Ben Greenberg
February 16th, 2022 | 38 mins 32 secs
Ben Greenberg is a second career developer who previously spent a decade in the fields of adult education, community organizing, and non-profit management. He works as a lead developer relations engineer at New Relic by day and is building hirethePIVOT, a reverse job board for career changers, at night.
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Episode 404: 404: Developer Not Found (Brittany + Jemma)
February 9th, 2022 | 30 mins 30 secs
After a campy true crime start, Brittany and Jemma recap Brittany's first full marathon, Brittany's promotion to Engineering Manager and Jemma brings up the exciting news of YJIT porting to Rust. They wrap up by discussing the tracks for the Railsconf 2022 CFP. Start applying!
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Episode 403: Unlocking More Plasma Supply with Damian Galarza
February 2nd, 2022 | 24 mins
Damian Galarza is the VP of Engineering at Buoy Software. Buoy is building software for good — connected intelligence that unlocks more plasma supply. Brittany, Brian and Damian discuss scaling engineering culture and reflect on technical decisions in a post Rails 7 world.
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Episode 402: UX Hot Takes with Pancakes (Nikki LeServe)
January 26th, 2022 | 25 mins 12 secs
What is an Engineering Lead without her UX Designer? Nikki "Pancakes" LeServe, Senior UX Designer at Textus, joined Brittany to discuss her UX origin story and to respond to Brittany's controversial UX theories. Should design by committee die? Should Bootstrap ever be used? Should some stuff be designed to be difficult to use? Tune in.
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Episode 401: From Frontend to Fullstack with Shameel Abdullah
January 19th, 2022 | 28 mins 49 secs
Shameel Abdullah is a Senior Developer at Shopify. Starting his career with frontend development, he has transitioned to a fullstack developer, working with Rails across multiple startups. He, Nick and Brittany chat about GraphQL and frontend opinions.
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Episode 400: Nothing But Gold Stars All The Way with Collin Jilbert
January 12th, 2022 | 25 mins 57 secs
Joining Brittany to celebrate episode 400(!), Collin Jilbert is a Ruby on Rails Developer at GoRails. They discuss why he committed to Rails so early in his career, his various ambitious projects (Ruby Radar, fleur de ruby), his love of the community and what his new role will entail.
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Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma
January 5th, 2022 | 30 mins 40 secs
Will Ruby 3.1 drop on Christmas (spoiler: it did!)? Jemma and Brittany catch up with the changes from this past year, talk about some resolutions they are planning for 2022 and whether the pursuit for mediocrity should be one of them. Oh yes, they also touch on the release of Rails 7.
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Episode 398: Audiophile: The Meta Episode with Paul Bahr
December 29th, 2021 | 31 mins 38 secs
It's a The Ruby on Rails Podcast x Remote Ruby collab! Brittany is joined with Jason Charnes and Andrew Mason so they can interview the editor of their shows, Paul Bahr, on how he got into podcast editing and the tools you need to get started.
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Episode 397: Game Development in Ruby (Super Bombinhas) with Victor David Santos
December 22nd, 2021 | 25 mins 23 secs
Victor David Santos is a fullstack Engineer at Tremendous and the creator of the Ruby platformer, Super Bombinhas. Victor joined Brittany to share insights on game development in Ruby, how to publish a game to Steam and how generous the gaming community can be.
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Episode 396: Advice My Uncle Told Me with Zachery Hostens
December 15th, 2021 | 25 mins 34 secs
Zachery Hostens is a Senior Rails Engineer at TextUs. He is a self taught techie to his core, who tries to have his hands in all the cookie jars. He and Brittany discuss what it was like working as Wells Fargo as a Rails engineer, how he landed at TextUs and some strategies on finding the hidden Rails developers out there.
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Episode 395: The Holiday Gift Guide Episode (Brittany & Nick)
December 8th, 2021 | 30 mins 35 secs
It's that magical time of the year again. Brittany and Nick catch up on Nick's experience at Rubyconf then dive into their holiday gift picks for 2021. Do you agree? Have more picks? Tweet to @brittjmartin and @Schwad4HD14 with your thoughts.
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Episode 394: Rubyconf 2021 Recap: Live + Virtual (Brittany & Jemma)
December 1st, 2021 | 30 mins 16 secs
Brittany and Jemma record right after Rubyconf 2021 so they could share their experiences and favorite talks both in-person and virtual. Oh, also, this is now a running podcast.
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Episode 392: I'm Actually Totally Happy (Brittany & Brian)
November 17th, 2021 | 28 mins 41 secs
No holiday break on the recruiting front! Brittany and Brian catch up on the Rails recruiting trends. They discuss how companies need to up the ante now that so many are remote first, how interviews should be structured and whether it is worth getting in the door, if it is not for the role you want.