{"id":217,"date":"2020-11-13T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/?p=217"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:54:02","slug":"devon-akers-ba15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/devon-akers-ba15\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon Akers, BA&#8217;15: Translating the Russian Language to Programming Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Senior Software Engineer, Capital One<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-218 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/13210328\/Devon_Akers.jpg\" alt=\"Devon Akers sitting at a table in a restaurant with a window and night view of a city in the background\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devon Akers &#8217;15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/major-minor\/#russian\">Russian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philosophy<\/a> major, Devon is now a Washington, D.C.-based software engineer for one of the nation&#8217;s biggest banks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Studying Russian at Vanderbilt gave me so many more skills than just the language.\u202fI learned to think critically, and now I can apply a rigorous thought process to solve any problem I come across,&#8221; he says. &#8220;My background in Russian was also very useful as I learned to speak new languages&#8211;programming languages. The fact that my education prepared me for my career, even though it seems to be unrelated, speaks volumes about the quality of education I received.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Software Engineer, Capital One A Russian and Philosophy major, Devon is now a Washington, D.C.-based software engineer for one of the nation&#8217;s biggest banks. &#8220;Studying Russian at Vanderbilt gave me so many more skills than just the language.\u202fI learned to think critically, and now I can apply a rigorous thought process to solve any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[3],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/13210422\/Devon_Akers_FI.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/german-russian-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}