The Humans of DevOps Podcast Series

Brendan O’Reilly, co-founder of DayshaDevOps and an Agile Coach, dives into the pitfalls of silos in remote teams. He shares innovative strategies for breaking down these barriers, promoting collaboration through tools like book clubs and hackathons. The discussion highlights the nuances of giving feedback remotely and emphasizes the importance of fostering a sense of shared goals. Brendan draws inspiration from sports coaching to advocate for versatility in team dynamics, ultimately encouraging continuous improvement and connection among team members.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Jonathan Schneider, co-founder, and CEO of Moderne. They discuss how remote teams can overcome challenges using VR, the benefits of VR for remote teams, and how VR impacts code quality and developer productivity. View a short clip of the VR experience. Jonathan Schneider previously led the engineering effort around large-scale automated code refactoring at Netflix, where he founded the open source OpenRewrite project. On the Spring Team at Pivotal, he led the site reliability engineering team and founded the popular Java metrics library Micrometer. He is the author of O’Reilly’s "SRE with Java Microservices.” Thanks to our episode sponsor Kolide! Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Have questions, feedback or just want to chat? Send us an email at podcast@devopsinstitute.com Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/humans-of-devops-podcast/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Christian Wiklund, co-founder and CEO of unitQ. They discuss why DevOps should prioritize real-time customer feedback in their decision making, the importance of fast feedback cycles and more! Prior to unitQ, Christian and Niklas Lindstrom founded Skout, a social app with over 50 million users that was acquired by The Meet Group in 2016. Christian is a native Swede, an avid surfer, a prolific tomato grower, and a proud father of three. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Have questions, feedback or just want to chat? Send us an email at podcast@devopsinstitute.com Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/humans-of-devops-podcast/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Dr. Gautham Pallapa, DevOps Institute Ambassador, founder of Transformity and an executive advisor for VMware. He discusses the human skill of empathy - what it is, why it's important in DevOps, how to be more empathetic and more. Learn more about Gautham's book, "Leading with Empathy" here: https://etransforms.com/ As the founder of Transformity and an Executive Advisor for VMware, Dr. Gautham Pallapa works with C-Suite and executives at Fortune 1000 enterprise customers in transforming their strategy, processes, technologies, culture, and people to achieve their objectives and business outcomes. His mantra is “Transform with Empathy” and has successfully led several business transformations and cloud modernization efforts in various industry verticals. Gautham is an agile coach, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a SAFe Agilist, and an Ambassador for the DevOps Institute. He writes/talks/works on transformation, elevating humans, helping underprivileged people, and giving back to the community. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Have questions, feedback or just want to chat? Send us an email at podcast@devopsinstitute.com Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/humans-of-devops-podcast/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Eric Chapman, DevOps Institute Ambassador and Principal Consultant at Liatrio. He discusses dynamic learning capability – what it is, why it’s important to software and DevOps organizations, dojos and more. Eric Chapman is a Principal Consultant at Liatrio, helping clients deliver software faster and safer. With a background in software development, he has spent the past 20 years architecting, building, and enabling software systems for large complex organizations spanning the US Government, Healthcare, Financial, and eCommerce sectors. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Have questions, feedback or just want to chat? Send us an email at podcast@devopsinstitute.com Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/humans-of-devops-podcast/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined once again by Pauline Narvas (@paulienuh) and Leonardo Murillo (@murillodigital) for the first-ever Humans of DevOps panel! They chat with host Jason Baum on what imposter syndrome is, why imposter syndrome affects certain groups more, how to identify imposter syndrome, how to combat it and more. Pauline Narvas is a Community Engineer at Gitpod and community founder of Ladies in DevOps. Pauline is an international speaker, blogger at pawlean.com and host of the By Pawlean podcast. Pauline is also an ambassador for Code First Girls and the author of the DevXDigest newsletter. Pauline was on episode 58 of the Humans of DevOps where we learned about her journey into tech, including starting to code and build websites at age 8, the importance of community and finding your tribe, cloud developer environments and so much more! If you didn't catch that episode, please be sure to listen. Leonardo Murillo is a Cloud Native Technologies Expert, DevOps Institute Ambassador, Co-Chair GitOps Working Group. Leo was on episode 45 of the Humans of DevOps where we learned about his journey into IT at 13 years old, founding the second BBS in Costa Rica, being an assistant network administrator for the first commercial ISP in the country at age 15, becoming an IT Director at age 20. If you didn't catch that episode, please be sure to listen. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Have questions, feedback or just want to chat? Send us an email at podcast@devopsinstitute.com Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/resources/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined once again by DevOps Institute Ambassador, Professional speaker, Straight Talk for Government chapter President, Senior Principal with MITRE Corporation and all-around Rockstar Tracy Bannon (@TracyBannon). Tracy discusses the human skill of proactive honesty - what it is, why it's important to software and DevOps organizations, how to be honest, proactive versus reactive and more. Trac was on episode 44 of the Humans of DevOps where we learned about her journey into IT and being a dev married to an ops. If you didn't catch that episode, please be sure to listen. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Have questions, feedback or just want to chat? Send us an email at podcast@devopsinstitute.com Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/resources/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by DevOps Institute Ambassador and Technical Evangelist Marco Coulter. Marco discusses the human skill of delegation - what it is, why it's important, how to delegate, tips and more. Marco Coulter, (he/him), @marcocoulter Marco has an over 20-year history of guiding companies globally in technology adoption. Published in Forbes and CIO magazines, he is a sought-after consultant; advising and reviewing strategic plans with dozens of large enterprises and start-ups. A former startup CTO, Marco brings experience from all sides of technology including business units, product and development teams spread through USA, EMEA and APAC. Marco’s focus earned him the nickname of “tech-whisperer” for his skills in translating business drivers for a technical audience and technical concepts for business leaders. When taking a rare break from technology, Marco can be found traveling the world or harvesting fresh vegetables from his NYC garden. Read more about delegation from Marco Coulter. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/resources/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Pauline Narvas of Gitpod. Pauline discusses her journey into tech, including starting to code and build websites at age 8, the importance of community and finding your tribe, cloud developer environments and so much more! Pauline Narvas is a Community Engineer at Gitpod and community founder of Ladies in DevOps. Pauline is an international speaker, blogger at pawlean.com and host of the By Pawlean podcast. Pauline is also an ambassador for Code First Girls and the author of the DevXDigest newsletter. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership. Please visit https://www.devopsinstitute.com/resources/ for a lightly edited transcript.

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Kristen Buchanan, founder of Edify. Find out how DevOps principles can be applied to people and team management, what the future of work holds and so much more! Kristen Buchanan is the CEO and Founder of Edify, an AI platform that builds high-performing engineering teams, starting with onboarding. She started her first company in 2014 and built onboarding programs for companies such as AWS Elemental, Puppet, OpenSky Alibaba, Cirium (FlightGlobal), Cloudability and more. Kristen is passionate about developing the future of high-performing engineering organizations so that engineering teams can build better products, faster. Want access to more content like this? Gain the tools, resources and knowledge to help your organization adapt and respond to challenges by becoming a professional member of DevOps Institute. Engage in one of the fastest-growing DevOps communities today! Get started for free: https://www.devopsinstitute.com/membership/ Use promo code HODPOD21 at this link for 20% off your Premium Membership.