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VFSWD: Soft Skills for Software Engineers - Greg Gzik



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This Vancouver FullStack Web Developer event had Greg Gzik talk to us about "Soft Skills for Software Engineers". Typically we'd cover hard technical skills when it comes to software engineering talks. Yet, soft skills are highly underestimated and can make a profound impact on your software engineering career.

Talk Synopsis
Software engineering is more than just writing code. Knowing programming languages, frameworks, tools, algorithms, and design patterns is important, but these skills are only half the battle. Without understanding how to have a mindset that sets you up for success, your engineering career is likely to stagnate.There are 3 truths about becoming truly successful in the industry:
- Great "hard" skills will get you a great job.
- Great "soft" skills will get you great opportunities.
- The combination of BOTH will get you a successful and rewarding engineering career.

We've seen a ton of great talks in this meetup about the "hard" skills needed to level-up in your career. This talk will focus on the softer side of things like choosing the right company to work for, understanding the valuable proposition you specifically bring to your company, using a process to learn new "hard" skills, and developing a mindset that will keep you moving forward even when you feel demoralized. On top of this, you will have the opportunity to hear advice from other successful engineers about the unique path they took to level-up in their own careers.By the end of this talk, if you take all of this advice to heart, you will have the right mindset to be unstoppable.

Speaker Bio
Greg Gzik is a Senior Software Engineer at Diligent. He was been building enterprise software since 2017 with a primary focus on web applications. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science. Despite being only 25 years old, Greg brings a level of enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge to his work that has accelerated his career trajectory.In his spare time, Greg loves to go on long walks around the city listening to audiobooks, grab a beer at a local craft brewery, or cosy up on the couch to a Netflix stand up comedy special.
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