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Ardan Labs Podcast

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

This podcast features intimate conversations with engineers who are in the forefront of building or teaching technology. Join us as we learn how our guests got started in tech, the type and level of education they've obtained, their work history, and personal stories about their journey. We publish the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and the Web biweekly on Wednesdays at 12pm US Eastern Time. Subscribe and STAY TUNED!
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Ardan Labs Podcast - Always Be Working Towards Your Goals with  Bryan Liles
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02/03/21 • 60 min

Bryan Liles is a Principal Engineer at VMware where he is working on the Telco & Edge Cloud BU team building telecom software that runs on Kubernetes. We examine Bryan’s unique path to success, which he credits to being goal focused and knowing his worth, among other things. He talks candidly about how his encounters with racism and poor leadership led to his frequent job hopping. This leads Bill to re-evaluate some of the criteria he uses when looking at a resume.

Connect with Bryan:
LinkedIn
Twitter
Mentioned in today’s episode:
VMware
Heptio
Want more from Ardan Labs?
You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

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Ardan Labs Podcast - Web Development and Cloud Computing with Colby Fayock
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10/12/22 • 88 min

Colby Fayock is currently a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary who teaches the tools of the web and Cloudinary implementation. Colby takes us on a journey through creating websites in highschool to using cloud technologies and landing a job at Cloudinary.
Connect with Colby:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/colbyfayockTwitter: https://twitter.com/colbyfayockGithub: https://github.com/colbyfayock
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colbyfayock/

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Cloudinary : gr-sea-gg-brand-home-base
React: https://reactjs.org
Element84: https://www.element84.com
Inktober : https://inktober.com
00:00 Introduction

01:20 What are you currently doing today?

05:35 What were you focused on in high school?

10:01 Building websites and hobbies in high school

14:52 Finding a major at Penn-State

19:31 Thoughts on graduate school

21:37 Finding jobs after university

28:40 Technology for web development / Moving jobs

37:17 Realizing you’re underpaid and moving forward

40:30 Working at ThinkGeek

47:24 Getting ”the boot” / Front-end and back-end relationships

58:10 Exploring for new opportunities

1:02:38 Working at Element84

1:07:45 Using serverless technology

1:15:38 Landing at Cloudinary

1:19:50 What is your current role at Cloudinary?

1:21:36 How is your company measuring success?

1:27:56 Contact info
Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!
Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

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Ardan Labs Podcast - Searching For New Challenges with Ishuah Kariuki
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03/16/22 • 87 min

Ishuah Kariuki is a software engineer at Microsoft. We talk about what it was like growing up in Kenya, the struggle of learning about computers with limited access to them, changing jobs as a means for career advancement, and more.
Connect with Ishuah:
Website: https://ishuah.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ishuah_
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishuah/
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Microsoft Expanding in Africa: https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/features/furthering-our-investment-in-africa-microsoft-opens-first-africa-development-centre-in-kenya-and-nigeria/
Windows 3.0: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_3.0
Radio Africa Group: https://radioafricagroup.co.ke/
BRCK: https://brck.com/
Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!
Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alp
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alp
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

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Ardan Labs Podcast - Building Confidence in Your Skills with Ukiah Smith
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07/08/21 • 67 min

Ukiah Smith is a Software Engineer at Apple, using Go to write API’s for internal teams. After graduating with an art degree, Ukiah’s path into tech was anything but traditional. Being a self-taught programmer, he didn’t always have the confidence in his skills. However, he was able to shift his career from design to front-end development to technical support. Eventually turning that into his current job at Apple.
Connect with Ukiah:
ukiahsmith.com
twitter.com/ukiahsmith
Mentioned in today’s episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
https://www.louisvillehardcore.com

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You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

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Ardan Labs Podcast - Piano Mastery to Cloud Computing with Guinevere Saenger
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02/17/21 • 57 min

Guinevere Saenger is a Software Engineer on the Development Lifecycle Team at Github. We hear about the challenges of pursuing a career in music and how, through an unbelievable turn of events, she has since transitioned to a successful career in tech! Although its clear Guinevere put in the work to get where she is today, she is outspoken regarding the lucky breaks she received in tech versus music.
Connect with Guinevere:
LinkedIn
Github
Twitter

Mentioned in today’s episode:
kube-service-exporter
Ada Developers Academy
Samsung SDS Cloud Native Computing Team
Github
Want more from Ardan Labs?
You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!
Work with us: https://www.ardanlabs.com/my/careers/

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Shahar Azulay is the CEO and co-founder of groundcover and a multi-time R&D leader, bringing in a lot of experience in the world of machine learning having worked as a leader in companies such as Apple, DayTwo, and Cymotive Technologies. In this episode, Shahar takes us on his journey through the tech industry leading up to the creation of groundcover.

00:00 Introduction

01:37 What is Shahar Doing Today? / Tech Talk

16:30 First Memory of a Computer

20:15 Thoughts of University and the Army

35:00 Moving on from the Army

43:27 Hacking on Connected Cars

47:40 Moving to DayTwo

51:48 Entering a Management Position

57:28 Going Back to School

1:09:15 Starting groundcover

1:20:00 Using groundcover

1:27:20 Price Model of groundcover

1:34:18 Contact Info

Connect with Shahar:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shahar__azulay

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahar-azulay-54156bb4/

groundcover site: https://www.groundcover.com/contact

Mentioned in today’s episode:

Docker: https://www.docker.com/

groundcover: https://www.groundcover.com/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses : https://ardanlabs.com/education/

Live Events : https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/

Blog : https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog

Github : https://github.com/ardanlabs

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Ardan Labs Podcast - Google, Tech , and Go with Teiva Harsanyi
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12/13/23 • 86 min

Teiva Harsanyi is a software engineer at Google, specializing in backend development and distributed systems. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing resilient, responsive, scalable, and maintainable systems. He is also the author of the book “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”. In this episode, Teiva discusses his journey to becoming a published author and Software Engineer at Google.

00:00 Introduction

00:53 What is Teiva Doing Today?

04:05 First Memory of a Computer

17:20 Thoughts for University

25:00 Engineering School Curriculum

32:20 Interests Going Through University

35:40 First Jobs in Tech

42:00 Working for a Helicopter Company

52:40 The Next Opportunity and Moving Countries

58:37 Discovering Go

1:03:40 Finding Utility Warehouse

1:11:00 Joining Docker

1:16:50 The Experience Working at Google

1:19:00 Writing “100 Go Mistakes”

1:25:30 Contact Info

Connect with Teiva:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/teivah

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teiva-harsanyi/?originalSubdomain=fr

Teivas Book: https://www.manning.com/books/100-go-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them

Mentioned in today’s episode:

Docker: https://www.docker.com/

Utility Warehouse: https://uw.co.uk/about-us/careers

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses : https://ardanlabs.com/education/

Live Events : https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/

Blog : https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog

Github : https://github.com/ardanlabs

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Ardan Labs Podcast - From Music to Open Source with Jeremy Saenz
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11/23/22 • 82 min

Jeremy Saenz is a Senior Software Engineer at Synadia who works with maintaining an open source messaging platform called NATS. In this episode he takes us on his journey from music production and product management to becoming an accomplished engineer.

00:00 Introduction

06:15 What is your first memory of a computer?

08:50 High school interests

19:30 After High school decisions

23:00 Entering the workforce

27:10 Getting into game engine design

38:15 What was your first task at Kajabi?

42:00 How does Go end up on your radar?

47:00 Writing Martini

52:35 What is Product Management?

55:10 The velocity of change

1:03:58 Moving away from product

1:09:35 Deciding to work on NATS

1:17:30 Jeremy’s workshop topics

1:20:40 Contact Info

Connect with Jeremy:

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/thecodegangsta

Mentioned in today’s episode:

NATS: https://nats.io

Kajabi: https://kajabi.com

Synadia: https://synadia.com

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/

Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/

Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog

Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

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Ardan Labs Podcast - Finding a Model for Open-Source with Alex Ellis
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12/22/21 • 80 min

Alex Ellis is the Founder of OpenFaaS, an open-source project focused on making it simple to deploy serverless functions with containers. Alex tells stories of breaking the family computer with Linux, hacking his school and the challenges he faced as a teenage programmer. We learn all about what led him to create OpenFaaS and the barriers you encounter when trying to grow an open-source project.
Connect with Alex:
https://www.openfaas.com
https://www.alexellis.io
https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Camino De Santiago: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/destinations/europe/land/spain-walking-el-camino/
Everyday Go (Book by Alex Ellis): https://openfaas.gumroad.com/l/everyday-golang
Serverless for Everyone Else (Book by Alex Ellis): https://openfaas.gumroad.com/l/serverless-for-everyone-else
Zero to OpenFaas in 60 months (GopherCon Talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzwBmHkP-rQ
Want more from Ardan Labs?
You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

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Ardan Labs Podcast - The Journey to a PhD with Anna-Katharina Wickert
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09/28/22 • 63 min

Anna-Katharina Wickert is currently pursuing her PhD in computer science with a focus on security and organizer for the Golang User meetup in Frankfurt, Germany. From programming at the age of 13 to deciding to pursue a PhD, she provides valuable insight into her journey through years of education.
00:00 Introduction
04:53 First Memory Using a Computer
09:53 Interests and College Decisions
25:09 Takeaways from the degree
27:06 Why Decide to Stay In School
32:31 Mastering in Security
37:33 After The Masters degree
39:23 How Did You Discover Go?
40:53 Deciding to do a PhD
43:55 What's Involved with getting a PhD
50:34 What's your Dream Job?
54:41 Native Fuzzing in Go
1:00:49 GopherCon EU 2022
1:02:57 Contact info
Connect with Anna:
LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/anna-katharina-wickert-60597a142/en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/akwickert
Mentioned in today’s episode:
GopherCon EU: https://gophercon.eu
GopherCon Talk 2022: https://youtu.be/yTvK8lzhENo
Frankfurt Rhein-Main Gophers Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/gophers-frm/
Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!
Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

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How many episodes does Ardan Labs Podcast have?

Ardan Labs Podcast currently has 104 episodes available.

What topics does Ardan Labs Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Computer Science, Tech, Kubernetes, Podcasts, Technology, Education and Engineering.

What is the most popular episode on Ardan Labs Podcast?

The episode title 'From Music to Open Source with Jeremy Saenz' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Ardan Labs Podcast?

The average episode length on Ardan Labs Podcast is 83 minutes.

How often are episodes of Ardan Labs Podcast released?

Episodes of Ardan Labs Podcast are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Ardan Labs Podcast?

The first episode of Ardan Labs Podcast was released on Nov 9, 2020.

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