Lightning Talks from Emily Harber
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Early career developer recounts concrete outcomes: self taught then bootcamp trained under Socratic coaching, hired at Shopify and paired with a senior on the same project using Slack calls and shared project sessions to debug and learn. Pairing accelerates access to internal resources, builds confidence in explaining code, and produces a surprising reversal — a mentor with eight years of experience asks for opinion and collaboration leading to role reversal where mentee teaches and true peership.
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