Favorite Parts Of Working In The Software Industry As A Software Engineer
Matthew, a Software Engineer III at Big Tech, enjoys the industry's diversity and how it intersects with various disciplines. A key benefit is the ability to "be a bit of a dabbler," working alongside professionals from different fields like medicine or law, and even potentially pursuing interests like quantum computing, which is a personal academic passion.
Interdisciplinary Applications, Technological Diversity, Quantum Computing, Problem Solving, Collaboration
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Matthew Gagliardi
Software Engineer III
Big Tech Company
University of San Diego
U.C. Berekely . M.A. mathematics
Mathematics, Data Science, Statistics, Philosophy
Arts, Entertainment & Media, Technology
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
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Video Highlights
1. Software engineering offers opportunities to work in diverse fields like medicine, law, FinTech, and biotech, even without formal training in those areas.
2. The field allows for collaboration with experts from various disciplines, such as physicists and scientists in quantum computing, providing unique learning experiences.
3. The speaker expresses excitement about the potential to contribute to cutting-edge fields like quantum computing, highlighting the industry's capacity for continuous learning and growth.
Transcript
What do you enjoy most about your industry?
I enjoy how diverse it is in terms of expertise and how it basically touches every discipline you can imagine. If you're interested in medicine, you don't have to be a doctor, but you can work on cutting-edge medical technology as a software engineer.
If you're interested in law, you don't have to be a lawyer, but you can work alongside lawyers on legal discovery software. This applies to FinTech, biotech, you name it.
If you're the kind of person who wants to be a bit of a dabbler and apply general ideas to problem-solving in very diverse spaces, I think it's the coolest industry there is. You'll get to work with and talk to people you wouldn't if you were in a much more focused industry. That, to me, is the coolest thing.
Personally, my deepest academic interest right now and where I would love to be is working on quantum computing. That is a very new field. If you're in that field, you'll be working with physicists and scientists, and I think that's tremendously exciting.
I have a lifetime's worth of books on quantum computing that I'm barely putting a dent in. This is a possible thing I could end up doing because I'm in this industry, even though I may not have the perfect academic background for it. So that's my favorite thing about the industry.