In this episode I talk with Irina Guberman. We talk her entry into programming, coming across Erlang at the “perfect time”, importance of learning multiple paradigms, programmable hardware, and more.Our Guest, Irina Guberman@irina_guberman on Twitteriguberman on GithubConference AnnouncementsCall for presenters is now open for Velocity London 2017. Visit http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/68627 for more information and to submit your proposal.The Call for Presenters is now open for Software Architecture in London, UK. Visit http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/68630 for more information and to submit your proposal.flatMap(Oslo) is a FP-conference with focus on Scala and the JVM, taking place on May 2nd and 3rd in Oslo, Norway. Please go to http://2017.flatmap.no/ to learn more.ElixirConf EU will be taking place on May 4th and 5th with tutorials on May 3rd. For more information visit: http://www.elixirconf.eu/OSCON will be taking place May 8-11 in Austin, TX. For more information and to register visit: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/50016, and use code USRG for 20% off most passes.LambdaConf 2017 will be taking place May 25th – 27th in Boulder, Colorado. Visit http://lambdaconf.us for more information.Elm Europe will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Paris, France. Visit http://elmeurope.org/ for more information and to register. ZuriHac 2017 will be taking place in Zurch on the 9th-11th of June. For more information, and to register visit https://zurihac.info/Oslo Elm Day is a one-day conference about Elm taking place June 10th in Oslo, Norway. Visit https://osloelmday.no/ for more information and to register.Curry On Barcelona will be taking place June 19-20th. For more information, visit http://www.curry-on.org/2017/.O’Reilly Fluent Conference will be taking place June 19–22, 2017 in San Jose, California. Visit http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/61309 to find out more and to register, and use code USRG for 20% off.EuroClojure will be taking place in Berlin, Germany on July 20th & 21st. Visit http://2017.euroclojure.org/ for more information and to keep updated.BusConf will be taking place the 3rd-5th of August in Frankfurt, Germany. Registration is open, and more information can be found at http://www.bus-conf.org/.The Strange Loop CfP is open! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House. To submit your CfP, visit http://thestrangeloop.com/.LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About IrinaHow Irina got into software developmentWhat made software development click and be “addictive”SuperCardHow Irina got introduced to ErlangJavaRecruiter email mentioning ErlangProgramming Erlang by Joe ArmstrongFinding Erlang at the perfect timeChicago Erlang CommunityMartin J. Logan’s on Episode 13Eric B. Merritt on Episode 20Garrett Smith on Episode 56Encountering “Why should I learn another language” questionsFeeling the pain that Erlang has already solvedElixirLisp Flavoured Erlangmnesia in ErlangWhatsApp“A language that has a database built in”The beauty of “doing nothing” to support concurrency and distribution“I like solving problems by doing nothing”Starting to learn Erlang in 2010Learn You Some Erlang for Great GoodErlang and OTP in ActionImportance of marketing and documentation for languagesPhoenix FrameworkFalse idea of “These tools will speak for themselves”Erlang Performance LabMichal Slaski presenting Erlang Performance Lab at Erlang and Elixir Factory SF 2017Learning how to understand how to structure Erlang applicationsBuilding a Cache chapter in Erlang and OTP in ActionImportance of learning and understanding new paradigms“Letting go of everything you learned before”ScratchHardware Definition LanguagesVerilogEmpowering devices for IoT with Erlang and FPGA at Erlang and Elixir Factory SF 2017Learning a language better by learning other languagesRacketBeautiful Racket by Matthew ButterickHour of CodeFPGA – Field-programmable gate arrayAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.