Kairsten Fay

I recently published an article on the Meta Developers Blog where I compare being part of Facebook’s Open Source Tooling team to working in a restaurant’s back of the house.

I perform my comedy story, "Bassnectar", about a misguided college student's night out. See me at 1:14:00.

I have a couple of cameos giving advice on how to become a self-taught software developer.

Get promoted by honing your written communiction skills.

Surround yourself with allies, step by step.

I wrote in detail about my study plan for my 2020 job hunt.

A memoir of my transition to tech.

A Slack bot that finds the latest web.archive.org copy of links in a message. Useful for getting around paywalls.

A recording of the talk I gave with accompanying slides.

@Northeastern University - Seattle

@IHME Women in Tech affinity group

A beginner-friendly tutorial I wrote to introduce people to React with hooks.

@Write/Speak/Code, Seattle

@Bedford lab meeting

A 3.5 hour lesson created by volunteers of Software Carpentry.

@Own Your Expertise - Write/Speak/Code, Seattle

@University of Washington eSciences Institute