The DevLab Podcast
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The DevLab Podcast
From code to customer: scaling systems (and careers) with Josh Hicks from Jumpmind | The DevLab Podcast
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What does it take to go from writing code to leading customer conversations at scale?
Josh Hicks, Senior Technical Sales Engineer at Jumpmind, joins us to talk:
🚀 Scaling to 70K databases and 20M changes/hour
🌧️ When data goes sideways (and how to fix it)
🔁 How to keep engineers engaged as companies grow
💼 What technical sales *actually* looks like
From building SymmetricDS to supporting retailers like Petco and Build-A-Bear, Josh has done it all, and still finds time to write code.
If you’ve ever asked "What’s next after dev?", this one’s for you.
🔥 Discover more about Jumpmind here: https://www.jumpmind.com/
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