Ardan Labs Podcast

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 Introduction04:53 First Memory Using a Computer09:53 Interests and College Decisions25:09 Takeaways from the degree27:06 Why Decide to Stay In School32:31 Mastering in Security37:33 After The Masters degree39:23 How Did You Discover Go?40:53 Deciding to do a PhD43:55 What's Involved with getting a PhD50:34 What's your Dream Job?54:41 Native Fuzzing in Go1:00:49 GopherCon EU 20221:02:57  Contact infoConnect with Anna: LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/anna-katharina-wickert-60597a142/enTwitter: https://twitter.com/akwickertMentioned in today’s episode:GopherCon EU: https://gophercon.euGopherCon Talk 2022: https://youtu.be/yTvK8lzhENoFrankfurt 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

Episode Description:Brian Terry is a senior solutions architect on the ISV Integrations team at AWS (formerly with the Cloud Formation team). We hear about his unique journey from being a star athlete, to racing motorcycles, and eventually completing 2 master’s degrees and landing his dream job.   Connect with Brian:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ineedhelpbrian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-t-b3276250/ GitHub: https://github.com/brianterry Mentioned in today’s episode:AWS Cloudformation: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ AWS On Air: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/live-video/aws-on-air/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 

Sonja Price is a career strategist, salary advisor, leadership coach, and the founder of Dynamo Careers. We learn all about Sonja’s journey from being employee #2 at a startup in the early 2000’s to finding her passion for helping others to advance their career. You’ll hear tips on negotiating, how to ask for a raise, and how to get to where you want to go in your career.Connect with Sonja:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonjaprice/Dynamo Careers: https://dynamocareers.com/ Mentioned in today’s episode:Pivot Point System (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Pivot-Point-System-Unlock-Career/dp/1092945598The Infinite Leader (Book): https://dynamocareers.com/the-infinite-leader-book Why Should You Change Jobs Every 2-3 Years? (Blog): https://dynamocareers.com/change-jobs-every-2-3-years Free Assessment: https://dynamocareers.com/assessment 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 

Ron Minnich is the President of the Plan 9 Foundation and a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. Ron has been on the forefront of many technologies, starting his journey with computers as a kid in the 1960’s. We hear stories of building relay computers, cluster infrastructure research, supercomputing, LinuxBIOS (coreboot), Plan 9, & his present day work at Google. Connect with Ron:Email: rminnich@gmail.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/corebootLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronminnich/ Plan 9 Foundation: https://plan9foundation.org/Coreboot (LinuxBIOS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot  Mentioned in today’s episode:Gemini 2 Launch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_2 Geniac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac (Book) The Elements of Networking Style: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Networking-Style-Animadversions-Intercomputer/dp/0595088791 (Book) Software Tools: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Brian-W-Kernighan/dp/020103669X (Book) Computer Lib/Dream Machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines OpenSUSE Talk (June 2022): https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC22/program/proposals/3767 IBM Blue Gene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Blue_Gene Emulytics: https://www.sandia.gov/emulytics/ 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 

Florent Biville maintains the official Go driver at graph database company, neo4j. We talk about the challenges and benefits of constantly learning new languages, interviewing at large companies, consulting life, and the importance of building trust through consistency. Connect with Florent:Twitter: https://twitter.com/fbivilleWebsite: https://florent.biville.net GitHub: https://github.com/fbiville Mentioned in today’s episode:neo4j: https://neo4j.comGo Driver Documentation: https://neo4j.com/developer/go/ 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 

Steve Wade is a founding engineer at KSOC Labs, a cloud-native SaaS platform built to remediate Kubernetes security risks in real time. We talk about the struggles around playing professional soccer, the importance of saying yes to opportunities, finding fulfillment in your career, and LOTS of Kubernetes chat.Connect with Steve:Twitter: https://twitter.com/swade1987Website: https://www.stevenwade.co.uk/GitHub: https://github.com/swade1987Mentioned in today’s episode:KSOC Labs: https://www.ksoc.com/Cuelang: https://cuelang.org/Kelsey Hightower on healthz: https://vimeo.com/173610242Want 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/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Daniel Whitenack is a co-host of the Practical AI podcast and a data scientist with SIL International. In one of our more technical episodes, we hear about Daniel’s journey from computational physics in college to using artificial intelligence for language processing. Tune in for a conversation on ethical AI, endangered languages, real-time translation, and more!Connect with Daniel:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwhitenaWebsite: https://datadan.io/ Email: dan_whitenack@sil.orgPractical AI podcast: https://changelog.com/practicalai Gopher Slack Channel: https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/ Mentioned in today’s episode:SIL International: https://sil.orgMultilingual AI: https://ai.sil.org Federated Learning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning Microsoft Flight Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator Babel Fish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_Fish_(website) Data Science with Go (GopherCon 2016): https://youtu.be/D5tDubyXLrQ Pachyderm: https://www.pachyderm.com/ Nvidia Grace Hopper: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-cpu/ 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 

Adelina Simion is a technology evangelist at Form3 and teaches courses on Go with LinkedIn Learning. We learn about Adelina’s passion for learning new things and now sharing that knowledge with others. Tune in to learn how someone becomes a LinkedIn Learning instructor, tips on interviewing, thoughts on changing jobs to add skills, and more.Connect with Adelina:Twitter: https://twitter.com/classic_addetzLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelina-simion/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/adelinasimion  Mentioned in today’s episode:LinkedIn Learning courses: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/adelina-simionGoLab Conference: https://golab.io/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/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Ian Lewis is a developer advocate at Google Cloud. In this podcast episode, Ian shares some of his insights on how to be a productive engineer when the codebase is in another language, how to build a successful conference, navigating the job market, containers, security and more. Connect with Ian:Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanMLewisLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmlewis/Website: https://www.ianlewis.orgMentioned in today’s episode:Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/Commodore 128: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128Unibasic: https://www.unibasic.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/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Mark Thompson is a senior developer relations engineer at Google. Mark has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge with younger engineers. We hear about his experience growing up in Chicago, overcoming adversity & peer pressure, navigating the job market, interviewing at Google, and much more!Connect with Mark:Twitter: https://twitter.com/marktechsonWebsite: https://marktechson.comEmail List: http://marktechson.dev/welcomeWant 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/blogGithub: https://github.com/ardanlabs