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.

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