I spoke at Teesside University

Well, this morning was quite an interesting one as I gave a lecture to a bunch of Teesside University students and staff, which is something I've never done before! I wanted to talk about something quite general that everyone could gain something from, so I decided to talk about Engineering at Visualsoft and the Technology we use.

I actually only had a 20 minute slot to speak, but my talk ended up taking 53 minutes. I basically talked until someone else needed the lecture hall! So what did my talk cover?

• Brief introduction to myself and Visualsoft
• Noteworthy stats from our Platform
• Our Tech Stack
• Our Recent Wins/Achievements
• Tools & Software we use
• Our Tech Disciplines
• Our Current & Future Initatives
• Lessons we've learnt over 27 years

This was about as general as I could get, without getting into things too specifically. The benefit with keeping it this general, is that the same talk could work for pretty much every company, this was just our take on it.

I also gave students some parting advice, that working in the industry I've definitely had first hand experience in:

• Build a Portfolio
• Embrace New Technology
• Believe in Yourself

I got really positive feedback afterwards. It's definitely something that took me out of my comfort zone, but I'm glad I did it. This was good practice ahead of a talk I'm giving next month about PestPHP!