DOP 241: From Restaurant Server to KubeCon Keynote in Under 4 Years
Posted on Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023
Show Notes
#241: On today’s episode, we go in depth with one of our friends, Whitney Lee. You may know her from her Enlightening series on Tanzu.TV or maybe from the You Choose videos she does with Viktor.
But did you know just over 4 years ago, she was a server in a vegetarian restaurant and since that time she’s spoken five times at KubeCon conferences - 2 of which were keynotes? What’ll you’ll learn is that just because you don’t have a CS degree doesn’t mean that you can’t do great things in tech.
Guests
Whitney Lee
Whitney is a lovable goofball who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. This past fall, Whitney co-presented a silly yet informative keynote about platform building at Kubecon NA 2022. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on Tanzu.TV, and she also co-hosts the streaming show You Choose! - a ‘Choose-Your-Own-Adventure’-style journey through the CNCF landscape . And not only does Whitney rock at tech - she literally has toured playing in the band Mutual Benefit on keyboards and vocals.
Hosts
Viktor Farcic
Viktor Farcic is a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and published author.
His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences (latest can be found here).
He has published The DevOps Toolkit Series, DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development.
His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog TechnologyConversations.com.
Links
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