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HELLO // BRYAN LATTEN // DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE @ ADOBE //@BRYANLATTEN ABOUT ME Binghamton Alum (07), worked on lots of things Joined Lockheed Martin. Did not compute. Moved to NYC, joined a weird startup in Union Square Grew

  1. HELLO // BRYAN LATTEN // DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE @ ADOBE //@BRYANLATTEN

  2. ABOUT ME

  3. Binghamton Alum (’07), worked on lots of things Joined Lockheed Martin. Did not compute. Moved to NYC, joined a weird startup in Union Square Grew from 5 to 70 team members Helped scale product from 30K to 10M members

  4. Sof t ware Architect: a love for the plumbing design Sof t ware Developer: reinventing the wheel since ever ScrapOps TM : connecting bash pipes to themselves Bleeding Edge Enthusiast Dial Cranker: turn it up to 11 or bust

  5. Behance: founded by Scott Belsky + Matias Corea Bootstrapped with paper products, online think tank, an annual conference, and productivity tools Series A with USV in mid 2012 Acquired by Adobe Systems in early 2013

  6. OUR PLATFORMS:

  7. ABOUT BEHANCE.NET

  8. Showcase and discover creative work The LinkedIn of the creative world Connect best talent with opportunity Decades worth of inspiration, in many creative fields

  13. BE.NET IS OUR MAIN STAGE

  14. SEEN FROM 10K FT

  15. BY THE NUMBERS (BE.NET) ~10M members, in 128 disciplines 120,000 HTTP requests/min 18TB/day image data transferred 500GB/day/single featured project

  16. ABOUT PORTFOLIO

  17. Quickly and easily create fully responsive site from Behance content Optimized production assets, leveraged social e ff ect from the Network

  22. HOW DO WE DO IT?

  23. LEVERAGE BEST-IN-CLASS TECHNOLOGY TO GET THE JOB DONE

  25. OK, NOW WHAT?

  26. HOW TO GO FROM STUDENT CANDIDATE

  27. JUST 5 THINGS:

  28. STEP ONE: YOU’RE NOT LOOKING FOR ANY OLD JOB

  29. Don’t play the numbers. Be picky about who you choose to send your resume to, craf t lovingly. You are not a machine, avoid companies looking for one. Have and display a personality.

  30. Avoid shops looking for cogs in a machine Seek out hard problems in uncharted territory Look for a huge learning curve. Show excitement about diving into the deep end.

  31. Maintain outlook for unlimited growth potential Knowledge today is likely automated tomorrow The person that automates themselves out of a job will never be fired

  32. Always something new to learn, or million of ways to do it better. Recommendation: look for an intersection between technology and a company mission

  33. STEP TWO: DEMONSTRATE A PASSION FOR WHAT YOU DO

  34. Have the “hunger inside you” - Malcolm Jones Showcase an burning desire to learn Holds especially true in technology, where each job is a moving target.

  35. JOIN GITHUB. LEARN GIT. Try to not have an empty profile.

  37. This is a new era in development Open-source sof t ware flourishes on Github Pick any language, find and use the best practices Use and contribute back to the community

  38. Solve real-world problems Show o ff your skills, both breadth and depth Contributions aren’t always code-based: contribute diagrams, docs, monitor issues

  39. READ EVERYTHING

  40. Includes articles, blogs, posts, tweets, etc. Keep a pulse on the community, developments Use something like feed.ly to aggregate Become an information sponge

  41. Attend local meetups (meetup.com or related) Get feedback from peers, community members Go to Hackathons. Make weird Hackathon friends Polish quick and dirty projects for showcase

  42. New products and solutions get new ways to organize, be an early contributor Introduce isolated group members across related product boundaries, push for collaboration

  43. STEP THREE: HAVE AN OPINION, A CONSISTENT ONE

  44. Determine what, but most importantly, why State your religion upfront (vim vs. emacs) Focus on objectives, best practices, and usage Stand your ground, when appropriate

  45. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO WHERE AND WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO WORK SOMEWHERE

  46. Limit talk about common school projects Highlight personal technical challenges, how they were overcome

  47. STEP FOUR: BE SOMEONE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO WORK WITH

  48. CULTURE IS MAKE OR BREAK

  49. “ It’s better to have a hole in your team than an ***hole on your team ” —DAN JACOBS, APPLE INC.

  50. Employers absolutely look for you on social media Have a social network persona Embrace the modern workplace, it is increasingly casual, yet overly competitive

  51. STEP FIVE: DONT BE AFRAID TO FAIL

  52. Being burned is incredibly useful, so long as we learn from our mistakes. Experience is worth its weight, but measure progress by your corrections over time

  53. IN CLOSING: NEVER SETTLE

  54. You are a representative of this school, both past and present scholars are counting on you. You’re going to do great things. You just have to figure out which ones.

  55. THANK YOU! BRYAN LATTEN // @BRYANLATTEN Come Work With Us! behance-talent@adobe.com

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