Hi, my name is Calvin Bushor and I am a software engineer, technologist, and thought leader. I've built web applications professionally for over ten years, using tools like NodeJS and REST along the way.
Now, I focus my skills and energy leading others. I help people unlock their Super Powers and level up to become the best versions of themselves. If the team happens to build some sweet stuff too, that's a bonus!
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Oh, and I can speak German! Aufiedersehen!
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Dad: “You Have To Know How To Finish!”
Meet my dad, Mark. He is one of the pillars of my foundation. Someone who has made me into the person I am today. My life is filled with lessons he and my other pillars have taught me about the world and being a human on it. My dad’s number one lesson he taught me was, “you have to know how to finish,” a mantra...
What are your Super Powers?
Really, what are your Super Powers?
This is a question I asked my leadership team looking to challenge all of us to think deeper about what our strengths truly are. (Learn the Super Power Discovery activity.) Usually, when others are asked what their strengths are, most people will say the usual lame stuff like, “I am hardworking,” or “I am always on time,” and people rarely go deeper than the surface to figure out what really sets them apart. Guess what? Most people...
Crossroads: Going from Developer to Leader - Slides
QL Tech Con Quicken Loans Technology Conference September, 2016
QL Tech Con is an annual technology conference put on by Quicken Loans, a company rated Computer Worlds number one place to work in IT three years in a row. This conference hosted many speakers from around the nation touting top technology trends and topics. QL and their family of companies also has many speakers sharing and educating about topics like security, BIG data, technology leadership, and more.
I presented "Crossroads: Going from Developer to Leader", a leadership talk about my adventures into the role. I talk about what it is like evolving my mindset from writing code every day and into someone leading others, mentoring and inspiring a team of people every day. I share some vulnerable moments throughout my journey and ultimatly, my crossroads, the moment where I considered going back to development and instead doubled down on leading people.
API Strategery - Slides
Michigan Dev Fest Google Developer Conference May 17th, 2014
Michigan Dev Fest is a developer conference put on by the same people that lead the Detroit Google Developer Group. This was a very fun conference where top technologists around the country presented the latest and greatest in tech. IOT (internet of things) was really big this year, demonstrating where the world is going with connecting everything to the internet.
I presented "API Strategery", a talk focused on REST APIs and why decoupling your UI from your applications logic enables you to do so much more in the future. Today, this is an old concept, but so many of us fail by putting our application logic so close to our UIs. This really limits our ability to innovate and pivot when we realize new ideas and opportunities. "API Strategery" was recieved well at Michigan Dev Fest and it was a fun presentation to give.
The fourth annual One Dev Day Developer Conference occured on November 17th, 2012 and I presented my "Oh Node You Didn't" slide deck about some of the core concepts within Node.js. The conference had it's best turn out with over 600 technology professionals and some great presenters from all over the country. The conference was hosted at Cobo Hall and sponsored by Quicken Loans, a big proponent of awesome technology in Detroit.
This was my first large presentation and it went really well. "Oh Node You Didn't" is an hour long presentation covering Node's non-blocking, event driven architecture, event emitters and socket.io.
I show off a few, real-time applications, like Swarmation, and the audience participated and laughed along.
One Dev Day was a blast!