Today as my guest I am hosting Anton Delgado, who currently works as a Senior Python Developer and before spent 7 years for Big 4 firm.
I will discuss with him how he made the transition from Audit to Consulting and finally Software Development. In our conversation we discussed how you can always continue learning thereby developing new skills, asking the tough questions of whether you want to continue the career track you started after university, how technology is changing and impacting the world around us and many other interesting topics.
Bookmark:
0:00 - 4:25 Introductions
4:25 - 8:10 University overall and 1st Career Choice
8:10 - 11:45 Big 4 Experience and a passion for programming emerges
11:45 - 18:05 Expectations and how your career will evolve over time
18:05 - 25:09 Day to day work in Big 4 and how the transition to programming happened
25:09 - 37:21 Working styles discussion and how to manage people
37:21 - 51:23 Technology discussion on development and capabilities (and how the financial world runs on Excel)
51:24 - 53:54 Hobbies
53:54 -54:54 10 years in the future
54:54 – 56:54 Top 3 Apps
56:55 – 59:20 Advice and final comments
Note: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in no way reflect the views of any organization, company, or institution.
Today as my guest I am hosting Anton Delgado, who currently works as a Senior Python Developer and before spent 7 years for Big 4 firm.
I will discuss with him how he made the transition from Audit to Consulting and finally Software Development. In our conversation we discussed how you can always continue learning thereby developing new skills, asking the tough questions of whether you want to continue the career track you started after university, how technology is changing and impacting the world around us and many other interesting topics.
Bookmark:
0:00 - 4:25 Introductions
4:25 - 8:10 University overall and 1st Career Choice
8:10 - 11:45 Big 4 Experience and a passion for programming emerges
11:45 - 18:05 Expectations and how your career will evolve over time
18:05 - 25:09 Day to day work in Big 4 and how the transition to programming happened
25:09 - 37:21 Working styles discussion and how to manage people
37:21 - 51:23 Technology discussion on development and capabilities (and how the financial world runs on Excel)
51:24 - 53:54 Hobbies
53:54 -54:54 10 years in the future
54:54 – 56:54 Top 3 Apps
56:55 – 59:20 Advice and final comments
Note: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in no way reflect the views of any organization, company, or institution.