Searching For New Challenges with Ishuah Kariuki

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/
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Orchestration in Go with Tim Boring

Tim Boring is a senior software engineer at Voltus and author of the book “Build an Orchestrator in Go.” Tim’s story shows us that many programming careers are far from linear. We learn about his struggles with Fortran in college, getting a masters in literature, a career pivot to programming, working at Google, and how things came full circle with his new book on orchestration in Go.
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Get Tim’s book: https://www.manning.com/books/build-an-orchestrator-in-go
Connect with Tim:
Website: https://timboring.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timboring/
GitHub: https://github.com/timboring
Email: [email protected]
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Fortran: http://fortran-lang.org
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Technical Legacy with Joonas Bergius

Joonas Bergius is currently a co-founder at Statype and an early employee of Digital Ocean. We talk about the experience of attending multiple schools in different countries, military service, technology consulting, containers, Kubernetes, and advice for technical entrepreneurs.
Connect with Joonas:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joonas
GitHub: https://github.com/joonas

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/
VMware: https://www.vmware.com/
Heptio: https://github.com/heptio

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