Christie Brandao is a software engineer at Branch Insurance, a startup that uses serverless infrastructure to sell home and auto insurance more efficiently. Prior to this role, she worked as a developer at the LHT Group. In a previous life, she was also a Twitch.tv Partner and gained over 4 million views and 30,000 followers in that position. She’s also a graduate of App Academy, a full-stack engineering boot camp. Join Corey and Christie as they talk about what it’s like to work for an insurance startup, Christie’s thoughts on whether her four-year degree or boot camp experience better prepared her for her role at Branch, how serverless technology empowers Christie to do her best work while ignoring things like availability and scalability, how Branch was running on AWS credits for two years and why that’s mind-boggling, Christie’s advice for people interested in learning serverless technology, and more.