DEV Community: Joey Laguna

Team 11 Recap

Joey Laguna — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:37:06 +0000

The Collab Lab’s 11th cohort (TCL-11) wrapped up a few weeks ago! This cohort brought with it four amazing members with a very strong technical skill set and amazing collaboration skills. All the members of this cohort would make an excellent addition to a development team (some of them already do), and if you are hiring you should 100% reach out to them!

This cohort consisted of Brandon Lee, Kathy Lambert, Stefanie Davis, and Volha Hancharova. The mentors were Jennifer Batara, Joey Laguna and LaQuita Gollman.

The cohort hit the ground running, and even from the first week there were architectural decisions being made that would help the development process in the weeks to come.

Collab Lab really focuses on gaining and improving collaboration and working in a development team, and this cohort knocked it out of the park. Aside from their weekly pairing sessions, code reviews and pull requests were a joy to see from the cohort. The right amount of detail went into each pull request so you knew exactly what you were looking at. They even included testing instructions!

To wrap up, I would like to say that it would be an absolute joy to work with any of these amazing folks on a development team. Check out our Who We Are page to get in contact with them!

Cohort 5 Recap

Joey Laguna — Sun, 31 May 2020 18:11:42 +0000

Collab Lab’s 5th cohort wrapped up a few weeks ago! You should totally hire this bunch. They're so amazing!

This cohort took place during uneasy and troubling times for all. I hope I speak for everybody that was involved that this was something I looked forward to every week and was a shining light in the darkness.

This cohort consisted of Aisling Hennessy, Diane Kim-Lim, Jennifer Batara, and Jon Bascos. The mentors were Lauren Beatty, Stacie Taylor-Cima and Joey Laguna.

This group really put the Collab in Collab Lab. After only a few weeks, the team on their own was working like a real software development team. They really focused on getting a strong understanding of the requirements each week. Each week their code review skills improved and their communication as a team was on point! By the end of the cohort, the group was getting weekly requirements knocked out early and started opening their own issues and making tickets!

After this cohort, Jennifer and Aisling went on to a new pilot program from Collab Lab. There should be more info on that coming soon!

What I'm really trying to say from all this is that this is an excellent group of software developers and you should totally hire them! Checkout our About Us page to get in contact with them!

I'm running my first tech workshop next week. Any general advice?

Joey Laguna — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:41:31 +0000

I'm running my very first workshop/tech talk next week on React! I will be teaching the basics of React and building a simple To Do list application.

I intend for the workshop to be mostly live coding with a few slides here and there.

As someone who has never done this before, I'm looking for any advice on giving a talk/workshop, live coding, handling slides, calming nerves, etc. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I'm Joey Laguna

Joey Laguna — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 02:45:26 +0000

I have been coding for [number] years.

You can find me on Twitter as @joey_laguna

I live in [city].

I work for [company]

I mostly program in these languages: [languages].

I am currently learning more about [topic].

Nice to meet you.