Episodes
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
#019 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Donnie Berkholz (Platify Insights)
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D., is the founder & chief analyst at Platify Insights, the only analyst firm for technology platforms. Before that, he was SVP Product Management at Percona, the unbiased open-source database company, where he led product management, design, and community.
Previously he served as VP Products & Advisor at Docker, where he built a developer-focused product strategy with a product-led growth model, with his contributions resulting in a 4x year-over-year increase in ARR. His extensive experience includes acting as Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners, leading the DevOps transformation at travel-tech leader CWT (fka Carlson Wagonlit Travel), advising upon development, DevOps and data science at industry-analyst firms 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global) and RedMonk, and leading more than 250 open-source contributors at Gentoo Linux. He also spent more than a decade in computational & experimental drug discovery and biochemistry, including a fellowship at Mayo Clinic.
Donnie holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from Oregon State University, where he specialized in computational structural biology, and dual B.S. and B.A. degrees in biochemistry and chemistry from the University of Richmond.Follow Donnie on Linkedin & Twitter
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
#018 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Pavel Brodsky (Forter)
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Pavel has been a Backend Engineer for years before switching to a DevOps role at Forter — the leading trust as a service unicorn startup. Three years ago, he transitioned into an Engineering Manager role in a team responsible for Forter's CI/CD pipelines and internal developer platform. Since becoming an EM, he has been focused on maintaining happy and effective teams, and he is passionate about developer experience.
Check out Pavel's blog: https://islandofsignal.com/ and his talk from PlatformCon 2023 https://2023.platformcon.com/talks/the-roadmap-impact-a-blueprint-for-success
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
#017 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Nilesh Gule (DBS Bank)
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Nilesh is a Vice President at DBS Bank, where he leads the design and implementation of scalable and innovative solutions using hybrid cloud, big data, and emerging technologies. He has over 2 decades of experience as a software developer, architect, and leader in various domains such as BFSI, healthcare, and retail. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure since 2018 and the first Docker Captain in Singapore for his excellent contributions to technical communities.Nilesh is passionate about learning, adopting, and experimenting with new technologies, and sharing his knowledge and insights through blogging, speaking, and organizing events. He is a certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps, and Data Engineer Associate, and a co-organizer of the Microsoft Azure Singapore user group. He lives by the motto of coding with passion and striving for excellence.-------------------------------------
Follow Nilesh on social: YouTube: https://youtube.com/@nilesh-guleBlog: http://www.handsonarchitect.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/nileshguleLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nileshgule/Github: https://github.com/nileshgule
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
A very special K8s4Humans episode with two absolute rockstars! 🤘🏼👨🏼🎤🇧🇷👨🏼🎤🤘🏼☸️ Marcelo Quadros is a Software Expert at Mercado Libre Brazil, the largest marketplace in Latin America. With over 13 years of experience, he specializes in developing and architecting complex systems for diverse domains. Currently, he contributes to the Cloud & Platform team, building a platform that manages over 26,000 microservices and supports 12,000 developers. Outside of work he likes to play with his daughter and loves to watch a good rock ’n’ roll concert.
☸️ Juliano is responsible for the Cloud & Platform teams at Mercado Libre, the largest marketplace and fintech in Latin America. He focuses on improving the experience and efficiency of the development team, creating and maintaining features and services in the Internal Development Platform (IDP), and all non-IDP infrastructure. He has been working in IT for over 20 years, leading teams with a very technical bias. Juliano loves playing video games, especially Zelda, and listening to Pink Floyd!
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
#015 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Sébastien Goasguen (Nvidia)
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Sebastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster in the late 90s when they were still called Beowulf clusters while working on his PhD; he has been working on making computing a utility since then. He has done research in grid computing and high-performance computing and with the advent of virtualization moved to cloud computing in the mid-2000s.
He is the co-founder of Trigermesh, the OSS cloud-native integration platform. Previously a Senior Director of Cloud Technologies at Bitnami and a senior Open Source Solutions Architect at Citrix, where he worked primarily on the Apache CloudStack project, helping develop the CloudStack ecosystem.
Sebastien is a project management committee member (PMC) of CloudStack and Apache Cloud and a member of the Apache Software Foundation, he focuses on the cloud ecosystem and has contributed to dozens of open-source projects. Sebastien is currently working for Nvidia and already has 3 O'Reilly books under his belt, available on Amazon:> The Kubernetes Cookbook> The Docker Cookbook> 60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
#014 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Pini Reznik (Container Solutions/re:cinq)
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Pini Reznik is the CEO and Co-Founder of re:cinq, a Green Software Services business that is helping save the world by reducing carbon emissions produced by Software and IT systems. Former Software Engineer, long-time manager, tech executive, and entrepreneur.
Pini was previously, CTO and Co-Founder of Container Solutions, a Cloud Native Services business, where he participated in and led dozens of cloud-native transformations and collected extensive hands-on experience in both technical and organizational aspects of the transformation.He is also the author of O'Reilly's Cloud Native Transformation book.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
#013 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Ian Nowland (Datadog)
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Ian has been in the software development industry for over 25 years, with the last 14 in management. That includes a long stint in AWS EC2 and a shorter stint at a quant hedge fund Two Sigma. Up until recently, he served as SVP of Core Engineering at Datadog, managing about half the engineering org that built the company's core data and platform systems. Ian is now enjoying his post-Datadog days and working on a new book about platform engineering.
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
#012 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Hans Kristian Flaatten (NAV)
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Hans does Platform Engineering at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) responsible for the NAIS platform. NAIS is an application platform built to increase development speed by providing our developers at NAV with the best possible tools to develop and run their applications.Previously Chief Consultant and DevOps Practice Lead for TietoEVRY where he drove culture and competency building for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Cloud Native practices internally and for customers in public government, telecom, banking, and insurance sectors.Open Source, DevOps, and Cloud Native evangelist. Member of the Node.js Foundation where Hans manages the test and release of official Node.js versions and the official Docker Image for Node.js with 10M+ downloads. Organiser of DevOps Bergen, Bergen NoSQL User Groups, and Co-Organiser of the DevOps Days Oslo Conference.
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
#011 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Charity Majors (Honeycomb.io)
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Charity is an ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io. Before this, she worked at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Lab on infrastructure and developer tools, and always seemed to wind up running the databases. She is the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering, and loves free speech, free software, and single malt scotch.
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
#010 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Joshua Burgin (VMWare)
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Joshua Burgin is a seasoned product and technology executive with a track record of building profitable businesses and high-performance teams in both startups and established companies. He specializes in growing diverse, mission-driven organizations who ship technology products that delight customers & deliver business results.
Currently, as the VP of Product & Strategy for VMware’s multi-billion-dollar Product & Cloud Services business, he leads initiatives in customer experience, software engineering consistency, onboarding, lifecycle management, devops, and security. Joshua also collaborates with the CEO, COO, CTO, and the senior leadership team to address operational, strategic, and corporate integration challenges.
Prior to joining VMWare in 2022, he spent nearly 8 years at AWS in a variety of executive roles, most recently as the General Manager for the AWS Outposts business, responsible for engineering, product management, design, marketing and business development. Before Outposts, Joshua worked as Chief of Staff & Technical Advisor to AWS’s most senior executives – Charlie Bell and Andy Jassy – tracking key industry trends, formulating strategy, and developing in-depth solutions to business & technical challenges. From 2014-2019, Joshua was a Director/General Manager in Compute Services, where he was responsible for multiple lines of business, including EC2 Spot, Reserved Instances/Savings Plans, Auto Scaling and Private Pricing. During this time, he sponsored and led the successful acquisitions of ClusterK, Thinkbox & Nimble Collective – playing a pivotal role in driving the post-acquisition integration, launch and growth of new AWS services based on the acquired companies’ technology.
From 2000-2014, he held product and technology executive roles at several startups, including Zynga, where he drove the development of their in-game advertising platform, increasing Ad revenue from under $5M to $150M/year, a 600% increase in under 3 years.
Joshua began his career in 1997 as one of Amazon’s first 100 employees, one of Amazon’s first 100 employees, working as a software engineer when the company only sold books online, and the entire staff fit on a single floor of an office building. He is a named inventor on over 20 patents and is in high demand by the media, often invited as a keynote speaker at global conferences focused on innovation, DevOps, and cloud computing. In his spare time, he advises several early-stage startups and occasionally shares thoughts and insights via his Substack.
Outside of the office, Joshua enjoys exploring new cuisines and traveling around the world with his wife and two children. At home, their household is a lively one, bustling with the antics of their beloved dog and cat.Follow Joshua on social: Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | YouTube
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About Kubernetes for Humans
The Kubernetes for Humans Podcast is hosted by Itiel Shwartz, co-founding CTO at Komodor, and a long-time Kubernaut.
The show revolves around Platform Engineering, DevOps culture, Kubernetes at scale, Cloud-Native, industry trends, future predictions, and of course - the intersection between humans and technology. Each episode Itiel hosts guests from various backgrounds and verticals for an open, freeform conversation about everything K8s and more!
☸️ Host: Itiel Shwartz
☸️ Producer: Udi Hofesh
☸️ Intro music: Ariel Gorlik
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