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Thankful for the AWS Community Builders Program & Building + AWS Step Functions 101
Career, DevOps Brian H. Hough Career, DevOps Brian H. Hough

Thankful for the AWS Community Builders Program & Building + AWS Step Functions 101

Discover how the AWS Community Builders Program fosters career growth with a global network, exclusive training, and mentorship. Learn to build a holiday-themed AWS Step Function state machine as a tribute to the program's leaders, showcasing the community's spirit of collaboration and support while learning how Step Functions and State Machines work with AWS Lambda Functions.

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Road to re:Invent: Our 1st Tech Conference (AWS All Builders Welcome Grant)
AWS, Career Brian H. Hough AWS, Career Brian H. Hough

Road to re:Invent: Our 1st Tech Conference (AWS All Builders Welcome Grant)

In this Tech Stack Playbook® CHATS, I'll be joined by 4 amazing guests to deep dive into all of the excitement around one of AWS' most incredible programs available to early career and underrepresented builders: the AWS All Builders Welcome Grant. Here's what's on tap: Why we wanted to apply for the AWS ABW Grant program, What attending our first global tech conference was like, What we thought re:Invent would be like vs. the reality, Top highlights from AWS re:Invent, Our favorite keynotes and sessions, Application tips for those thinking of applying, and Why you should apply.

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Builders Sesh with AWS Community Builders (Sully Martinez & Olumuyiwa Kolayemi)
AWS, Career Brian H. Hough AWS, Career Brian H. Hough

Builders Sesh with AWS Community Builders (Sully Martinez & Olumuyiwa Kolayemi)

On the Tech Stack Playbook today, I'm going live with 2 of my favorite builders, Sully Martinez & Olumuyiwa Kolayemi, to talk about tech, life, building on AWS, and what we've been up to. We are all AWS Community Builders across different categories, and we're going to be discussing how the program has helped us personally, professionally, and as builders in tech. We'll also be talking about how we got started building in the cloud, and what areas of tech we are most excited about, what we are planning on building next, and more…

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Recapping AWS re:Invent 2021
AWS, Career Brian H. Hough AWS, Career Brian H. Hough

Recapping AWS re:Invent 2021

Join us for a casual, fun, vibey chat where we break down all of the excitement of AWS Re:Invent 2021, the announcements, the workshops, the sessions, and everything we're excited about going into 2022 🤩 For this Tech Stack Playbook CHAT, I'm joined by fellow AWS Community Builders Diamond Jorsling-Purvis (@EngineeredCurlz) and Lou Bichard (@OpenUpTheCloud) and Andrew Brown (@AndrewBrown), along with AWS & cloud engineers Taruna Mangar (@TarunaMangar), Sully Martinez (SullyMartinez7), and Matt Morgan (@NullishCoalesce)…

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How to Get Started with Low-Code / No-Code with Wilián Iralzabal (Zabal Media)
Career, Entrepreneurship Brian H. Hough Career, Entrepreneurship Brian H. Hough

How to Get Started with Low-Code / No-Code with Wilián Iralzabal (Zabal Media)

Wondering what Low-Code / No-Code is and want to learn more? 👨‍💻💭 In this episode of the Tech Stack Playbook, I sit down with Wilián Iralzabal (@wilian_iralzabal, founder of Zabal Media, the creator of One Minute Designer, and a former Product Designer at Google. We had an awesome conversation this afternoon about all things entrepreneurship, design, tech trends, and low-code / no-code…

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Are Hackathons Just for the Pros? — Tech Stack Playbook LIVE With HackerEarth
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Are Hackathons Just for the Pros? — Tech Stack Playbook LIVE With HackerEarth

This week, I had an amazing conversation on Instagram LIVE with HackerEarth (@hackerearth), one of the leading online virtual hackathon platforms with a 5+ million developer community and an online learning platform assessing 80+ developer skills. Hackathons have played such an important role in my career, helping me learn new skills at a fast rate, see how to build technology up close, and they continue to be a great way to network, level up skills, and make incredible connections. When HackerEarth reached out to me to do an IG LIVE to answer the question "are hackathons just for the pros?" I of course had to take them up on their offer…

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The Value of Community & the AWS Community Builders Program with Linda Vivah — Tech Stack Playbook
AWS, Career Brian H. Hough AWS, Career Brian H. Hough

The Value of Community & the AWS Community Builders Program with Linda Vivah — Tech Stack Playbook

This week, I had an amazing conversation on Instagram LIVE with Linda Vivah (@lindavivah on Instagram and @lindavivah on Tiktok ), a software engineer from NYC, the founder of Coding Crystals (@codingcrystals), and a fellow AWS Community Builder. I thought the conversation was too good to just stay on Instagram, so that's why I made a whole episode out of it…

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