Carl Tashian

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⚙️ Creative technologist & engineering leader
👨🏻‍💻 Senior Staff Engineer, Special Projects at Smallstep
🏡 Based in San Francisco
🏳️‍🌈 he/him

Past lives:
♻️ Co-founder & VP of Engineering at Trove
🚗 Built Zipcar’s technology

More about Carl

Deep copy

  • At Dynamicland, The Building is The Computer
  • A brief history of random numbers
  • The moment you realize every server in the world is vulnerable
  • What developers should know about networks

Shallow copy

  • ‘The Art of Computer Programming’ by Donald Knuth
  • Programming is like travelling the world
  • Managing technical debt
  • How to pair program
  • How I helped my partner learn to code
  • The complete guide to choosing a programming language (and buying a mattress)
  • The hidden bets of Agile
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