Intro and Interview with Alvaro Pereda

Welcome to The Rules of Software Development podcast.

I am Andrew Woods, a software development manager with 14 years experience in software. I have worked as a Java developer building out GSM messaging systems, a front-end developer using JSP, JavaScript and Struts, and later became an Android specialist. I've worked in the big companies and the smaller companies. I've worked with teams of 20 people, 5 people and as a sole developer, and recently I've been thinking about software professionalism and how it affects the development of a software product.

This show is aimed at talking to different guests from different areas of the software industry about what, in their opinion, makes a professional software developer.

This episode will introduce the show and we will talk to Alvaro Pereda, a technical lead at Infocare, an e-Health Startup in Dublin, on how he views professionalism in software.

Alvaro has over 15 years experience working in software. He has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry and has projected his career from the Java developer to a mobile expert to leading and managing teams.
Alvaro is the man who introduced me to Clean Code, TDD and many of the software principles that allow the development of scalable, testable and maintainable systems. As such, Alvaro is the perfect guest for the first episode of this show.

During the episode we will discuss many topics, like:

OKR's The Pomodoro Technique Working with different personalitiesand a whole lot more

Alvaro also gives us a book recommendation that he feels everyone should read: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Micheal Feathers

Support the show

The Rules of Software Development

Where can you listen?

Episodes