Origin Stories #8 - David Okun - Kitura

In this episode of Origin Stories I speak with David Okun of IBM and Kitura. We discuss how he got started as a kid building Geocities websites for Dragonball Z, and how he ended up as a developer evangelist for IBM working with the Kitura team helping bring Server Side Swift to the community. Be sure to stick around for the story of how he got his job at IBM and our discussion about luck being involved in everyone's journey. It's good stuff.

Origin Stories is a series of interviews with iOS developers from the community where we discuss how they got their start in this industry. We discuss how they first became interested in code, what resources they used to learn, how they got their first job and much more.

David's Twitter

https://twitter.com/dokun24

Server Side Swift w/ Kitura Book

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1

Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer:

https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin 

Books, hoodies and goodies: 

https://seanallen.co/store

If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2

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Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links):

Ray Wenderlich Books:

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Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials:

https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24

Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: 

https://gumroad.com/a/762098803

Learn Advanced Swift Here: 

https://gumroad.com/a/656585843

My Developer & YouTube Setup: 

https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen