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Episode 269: Taking Your Own Path to Being a Cloud Native Developer

Episode Summary

Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza talks about their path to becoming a cloud engineer, how it felt at their first professional tech job, the problems they enjoy solving, and what kinds of things people are stumbling on in cloud engineering.

Episode Notes

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza @Twitter

Recording date: Feb 1, 2024

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza on YouTube
• Learn to cloud
• Do More with AI and GitHub Copilot, keynote at All Things Open by Gwyneth
• All Things Open conference
• Gwyn’s github
• GitHub Copilot
• Microsoft Developer
• From Zero to Cloud Engineer in 6 months
• Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
• The Phoenix Project book
• Semantic Kernel
• Learning How To Learn, by Barbara Oakley
• The Woobles - crochet kits for beginners
• Express Yourself: “It’s not what you look like when you’re doin’ what your doin’”

Timejumps

• 00:30 Are you a YouTuber?
• 01:51 Introducing Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza
• 07:23 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:28 What was your journey into tech?
• 13:40 How did you feel joining a professional tech jon?
• 19:09 What kind of tech is interesting you?
• 21:43 What are problems you enjoy trying to solve?
• 24:23 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 25:22 What are some interesting ways to get a new job in 2024?
• 29:03 What are people stumbling on in cloud engineering?
• 31:08 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.