When I joined the Twilio Developer Evangelism team in 2014, we spent a lot of our onboarding practicing the "five minute demo" where we live-code a Twilio app from scratch. I thought this was dumb, mostly because live-coding is so damn hard.
Six weeks into the job I watched Jeff live-code a Twilio app in front of 10,000 people at IBM Connect. It was as if he was saying to all of us, "Yeah, live-coding is hard. And if I can do this in front of 10,000 people, you can do it at your local Ruby meetup."
It was the first of many, many times over my nine years that Jeff led by example, set the bar, and pushed us all to reach levels we didn't know we were capable of. Working under Jeff's leadership was the privilege of a career.
Six weeks into the job I watched Jeff live-code a Twilio app in front of 10,000 people at IBM Connect. It was as if he was saying to all of us, "Yeah, live-coding is hard. And if I can do this in front of 10,000 people, you can do it at your local Ruby meetup."
It was the first of many, many times over my nine years that Jeff led by example, set the bar, and pushed us all to reach levels we didn't know we were capable of. Working under Jeff's leadership was the privilege of a career.
I can't wait to see what he builds next.