Episode

Desktop and Meta-programming with Amanda Hinchman

· 47 mins

In this episode we chat to Amanda about how she joined the Kotlin community and the work she's been doing around test automation. As well as the current status of development fatigue that many suffer from.

About Amanda Hinchman

A Grinnell '17 alum from the sunny state of Florida. Merely at the beginning but specializes in UI development producing large-scale projects in sales enablement.
College provided experience for data-driven development for analysis in social inquiry, Android development, as well as front-end engineering internships at Prudential and Cisco. More notably, a sculpture artist.

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