PARENT DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Host
- Director of Engineering at GitHub
Allison McMillan is a Director of Engineering at GitHub. She's worn many hats including community builder at the University of Michigan, software developer, and Managing Director of a national non-profit. She is a Mozilla Tech Speaker and speaks on a variety of topics including mentorship, working remotely, and being a parent in tech.
Speaking about and doing research on being a parent and developer is what inspired Allison to start the Parent Driven Development podcast. She has a 5-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter. When Allison is not coding, you can find her encouraging her son's climbing skills, making funny faces at her daughter, or pretending she has time to bake. She lives in the Washington, DC area.
Allison McMillan has hosted 52 Episodes.
Anna Mackenzie joins the podcast to talk about The Parenting Playbook, a book she co-authored that helps startups navigate how to create quality policies that support parents.
Brandon Hays joins the panelist to discuss how the pandemic has impacted parenting, co-parenting and the new responsibilities that come along with it.
Job Titles:
- Co - Host
- Senior Engineer at HashiCorp
Chris Arcand is a senior engineer at HashiCorp where he works on Terraform, a tool for building, changing, and versioning cloud infrastructure. He organizes RubyMN, and as a public speaker has had the privilege of speaking at major conferences as close as the American Midwest and as far as Kyoto, Japan. Beyond programming he enjoys ice hockey, backpacking, and fulfilling his responsibility as a native Minnesotan to making pointless connections to Minnesota at every opportunity.
Chris Arcand has hosted 11 Episodes.
JC has worked primarily as a web developer in many industries, including communications, financial, and e-commerce.
During this time his family has grown to four children and two dogs. They keep him and his wife busy and keep life interesting.
He's also an amateur musician and considers himself a decent guacamole maker.
After all these years, he may be starting to figure things out, but there's still a lot to learn.
JC Avena has hosted 15 Episodes.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Chief Executive Officer of All Our Kin
Jessica Sager is the co-founder and chief executive officer of All Our Kin, a nonprofit that trains, supports and sustains family child care providers to ensure that children and families have the foundation for success in school and in life. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School, Jessica co-teaches a Yale University seminar on "Child Care, Society, and Public Policy". She has provided commentary on child care issues for Time, The Hill, New America, and Education Week. She currently lives in New Haven, CT, with her husband and their fifteen-year-old daughter.
Jessica Sager has been a guest on 1 episode.
Today we sit down with Jessica Sager, co-founder and CEO of All Our Kin, to discuss the changes of child care during COVID-19 and how we can help make positive changes in our own communities.
Josh Puetz is a developer with almost 20 years of experience making mistakes and telling stories about them. A veteran of several startups, he's currently a senior software engineer at Codeship, focusing on building tools to help other developers write better code.
He lives in a small town in Wisconsin with his husband and 10-year-old daughter. When's he not trying to figure out what to make for dinner, he enjoys photography and gaming.
Josh Puetz has hosted 23 Episodes.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Uplift Parents
Mike McQuaid is a father of two and lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a senior engineer at Github where he's worked for the last six years. In his free time, Mike is the package leader for the Homebrew package manager. He also likes going to the gym, walking his dog and hosting the Balancing Dad Podcast for working fathers.
In this episode, co-founders Anne Halsall and Sara Mauskopf join the show to talk about creating the app Winnie: a place where crowdsourced information is spread amongst parents that relays important information such as childcare, activities, and advice.
Scott Hanselman joins the podcast to talk about his approach on allowances for parents, why they're important and how exactly they can benefit the entire family.