TikTok and Short Form Content for Developers with Linda Vivah
Today Corey talks with Linda Vivah, newly employed as developer advocate at AWS. Linda talks about using Tiktok for education and community, and then about her recent career move to AWS. Corey and Linda discuss what it might look like for AWS to transition to offering more short form content, as well as the Tiktok algorithm and “going viral.” They wrap up the interview by talking about the potential challenge of moving from short form content back to long form.
Full Description / Show Notes
- Corey and Linda talk about Tiktok and the online developer community (1:18)
- Linda talks about what prompted her to want to work at AWS (5:29)
- Linda discusses navigating the change from just being part of the developer community to being an employee of AWS (10:37)
- Linda talks about moving AWS more in the direction of short form content, and Corey and Linda talk about the Tiktok algorithm (15:56)
- Linda talks about the potential struggle of going from short form to long form content (25:21)
About Linda
Linda Vivah is a Site Reliability Engineer for a major media organization in NYC, a tech content creator, an AWS community builder member, a part-time wedding singer, and the founder of a STEM jewelry shop called Coding Crystals. At the time of this recording she was about to join AWS in her current position as a Developer Advocate.
Linda had an untraditional journey into tech. She was a Philosophy major in college and began her career in journalism. In 2015, she quit her tv job to attend The Flatiron School, a full stack web development immersive program in NYC. She worked as a full-stack developer building web applications for 5 years before shifting into SRE to work on the cloud end internally.
Throughout the years, she’s created tech content on platforms like TikTok & Instagram and believes that sometimes the best way to learn is to teach.
Links Referenced:
- lindavivah.com: https://lindavivah.com
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