Tegan Ashby - Philadelphia Phillies, Assistant Director, Software Engineering

Tegan Ashby is the Assistant Director of Software Engineering for the Philadelphia Phillies. Before that, she worked in the NBA as a Senior Developer of Basketball Systems for the Brooklyn Nets, and as a Developer of Research & Development for the Philadelphia 76ers.. She holds a BA in Linguistics from Penn, and took classes at Cal Berkeley’s Ancient Neat Eastern and Biblical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Graduate Studies program. In this conversation, Tegan talks about…

• What a software engineer does and how it applies to a baseball team.

• What kinds and volumes of data MLB teams deal with.

• The difference between a development job with an NBA team compared to an MLB team.

• What NBA engineering looks like.

• Her background in Linguistics and how it helps her in her profession.

• Advice on sports-specific tools for someone learning software engineering.

• Co-founding the Women In Sports Data and how people can support the initiative.

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Tegan.

Show Links

• Follow Tegan on Twitter: @bunsushi

• Follow Women in Sports Data on Twitter: @WinSportsData

• For more on Women in Sports Data, click here.

• For more on SportsDataVerse, click here.

• To check out Tegan’s website, click here.

• To check out Tegan on LinkedIn, click here.

• Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.

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