Founding your own DevOps startup - Tom McLaughlin

In this episode Andy Davis talks to Tom McLaughlin, Founder at ServerlessOps. On the show they discuss the difficulty of hiring for a DevOps role. Andy asks Tom about his career progression. They also chat about Tom founding ServerlessOps and some of the challenges he had to overcome.

Tom likes to ask what does Ops mean in a serverless world? He founded ServerlessOps to help you to design, build, and run reliable serverless systems.

Show Notes:

1.05 From a recruitment perspective how do you articulate what the DevOps role requires and how do you identify what you’re working towards?

3.49 How do you manage to bring on the appropriate people for your team?

5.08 Toms career progression and background.

9.26 Having a disciplined approach to staying on your career path.

11.42 The consumer dictates the pace that technology move at.

13.08 Tom’s current projects. 17.57 Do you think we still need to educate people about the serverless market.

21.07 Still learning about ServerlessOps.