Maxime Rouiller talks with Dave Rael about priorities, working for MIcrosoft, making great experiences, and that relationships matter
Maxime Rouiller has been in the tech industry since the 2000s. He's always been working with .NET for as far as he can remember. He's built his profile on being a master of all trades. He's setup VMs, SharePoint environments, built servers and what not. He's coded from desktop apps to server apps, but he's truly found my passion around the web, however. Since then, he's been consulting independently for 3 years before seeing an opportunity to join Microsoft. He co-manages a local user group in Montreal, and owns his own blog.
If you want to talk bread and bicycling, he's your man.
Chapters:
0:32 - Dave introduces the show and Maxime Rouiller3:52 - Maxime on working at Microsoft10:39 - The Cloud Developer Advocate role and Maxime's typical day12:19 - The evolution of Azure and open source at Microsoft16:15 - How Maxime got started in software19:50 - Keyboarding competency22:52 - Maxime's story of failure - deleting a production database, joining the wrong team26:03 - Choosing the right team30:51 - Priorities and using your time well38:38 - Maxime's book recommendations44:18 - Maxime's top 3 tips for delivering more value46:56 - Keeping up with Maxime
Resources:
Maxime's Social Profile
MSDEVMTL User Group
Scott Guthrie
Cecil Phillip
Microsoft's MIssion
Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Ignite
Turbo Button
The Joel Test
Joel Spolsky
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers - Matt Wynne
Eric Evans on Developer On Fire
Udi Dahan on Developer On Fire
Advanced Distributed Systems Design - Udi Dahan's Course
Explore DDD
Maxime's book recommendation:
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs) - Richard K. Morgan
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
The Art of Unit Testing: with examples in C# - Roy Osherove
Maxime's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
Find the pain points where people are hurting
Focus on your passion
Relationship matters