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DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 13 - Jasmine James, Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Experience @ TwitterJasmine James is a Senior Engineering Manager at Twitter, leading the developer experience pillar in the engineering effectiveness organization. Prior to Twitter, she worked at Delta Air Lines enabling cloud native application development by providing modern tooling and capabilities utilizing open source projects. Jasmine has delivered multiple keynotes at various technology conferences including KubeCon and Cloud NativeCon, focused on her experience during the last decade both as an engineer and a leader. Jasmine lives in Atlanta, GA.Some of the topics we discuss include Chaos Engineering, planning for failure, tool selection and leadership techniques. We also compare...
2022-03-0756 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 12 - Tiffany Meyers, AVP, Chief Architect, Corporate Technologies @ NationwideDuring this episode, Tiffany discusses being a role model and some of the pros and cons this carries. Promotions and career growth usually go hand in hand with being a role model to others, and sometimes navigating that responsibility takes time to learn. Integrity and authenticity go a long way - Tiffany talks about how leaders have to show up as their authentic selves now more than ever in the world of virtual work. We discuss mentorship. Tiffany explains that “it’s not about the number of mentors you have, it’s where they show up in your l...
2022-02-2359 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 11 - Mathura Srinivasan, Head of Agile Delivery @ SnapcommerceDuring this episode, Madhu compares her experiences working in a large bank to the environment in her current role in a high growth startup. We compare the differences between Agile culture and Agile practices.Madhu and I discuss some of the blockers to enterprise transformations and some useful ways to avoid these potential hurdles.We talk about continuous improvement and building quality into our systems, as well as the importance of fast and regular customer feedback to build better products and services.Mathura Srinivasan was born in Chennai, India educated in...
2022-02-1444 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 10 - Sai Adivi, Vice President of Technology @ Inspire BrandsDuring this episode we spoke with Sai Adivi, Vice President of Technology at Inspire Brands.We discussed the digital transformation of the restaurant industry, which is modernizing everything from the kitchen to the customer experience and payment systems. We covered topics ranging from robotic process automation to platform and site reliability engineering. Sai talks about the importance of culture, people and process and how these are still the drivers for any technology transformation. Similar to most industries today, the war on talent is adding increasing pressure on pricing, strategy and growth...
2022-02-0242 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 9 - Trina Hill, SVP of Technology @ Synchrony BankDuring this episode, Trina explains how her own personal 'Board of Directors' give her the mentorship, sponsorship and accountability that she needs to continue growing in all areas of her life. They are a diverse group of people who want to help each other win and give direction, feedback and advice.Trina occupies many seats as an Executive, a mother and a wife to name a few. She opens up about motherhood and leading her family during the pandemic and after the murder of George Floyd.We discuss Trina's experiences being the first or the...
2021-10-1857 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 8 - Jen Henderson, Senior Vice President @ PNC BankDuring this episode, Jen shares how a 176 year old financial services institution with ~70, 000 employees is able to innovate and stay relevant at a time of rapid change and increasing competition in the FinTech space.Jen addresses how her organization is searching for talent in underserved and underrepresented communities by looking at earlier stages of the talent pipeline, such as those without college degrees, given that many people in African-American, Hispanic and Rural American communities have a lower likelihood of attaining a college degree. Building trust for a 176 year old bank means it’s essential to know customers. Di...
2021-10-1144 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 7 - Natalie Nixon, Author @ 'The Creativity Leap'During this episode, Natalie shares how she has been working with organizations to apply wonder and rigor to amplify growth and business value. She unleashes creativity in people and areas that have previously not thought of themselves as creatives. Putting it simply, Natalie says that "to be human is to be hard wired to be creative".Natalie suggests that the organizations and leaders that work at the intersection of technology, productivity and meaningful human experience will be most likely to flourish in the new way of working. She also shares that the best businesses she has worked...
2021-10-0451 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 6 - Lisa Burton O'Toole, VP @ HearstLabDuring this episode, Lisa discusses how she is supporting women-led startups through the HearstLab accelerator, from funding to shared resources.Lisa's investment thesis is that diverse teams build better businesses. She supports this with data such as "women-led startups give 2.5x higher returns than male-led businesses", and "ethnically diverse startups are 35% more likely to outperform their non-ethnically diverse counterparts".Lisa gives insights into the shared services available at HearstLab, including a 'DevOps Fellow'. Early stage startups can spin up their infrastructure, operations and tooling while learning best practices from the DevOps Fellow who has worked...
2021-09-2752 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 5 - Mike A. Williams, Director @ GoogleDuring this episode, Mike discusses the importance of giving back to the community and to young people earlier in their careers. He explains that we need to give people room to fail safely, so that they can absorb important lessons along the way. We discuss the lack of inclusion that women in technology face, and how these factors are enhanced even further for Black and Hispanic women. Mike also talks about his experiences with being the only Black man in the room, and how he tackled that by always showing up as his authentic self. Mike A...
2021-09-2052 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 4 - Lisa Wardlaw, Chief Financial Strategy OfficerLisa Wardlaw is a CxO, in the Digital, Financial and Strategic space. Most recently, she has held roles at Fortune 500 companies such as Farmers Insurance and MunichRe. Lisa is involved with product innovation and vision, budgeting and resource allocation, C-Level Global Leadership and Global Digital Transformation. She has built a big data and predictive analytics model with a 5-year projected ROI of more than $400 million.Lisa has taken a non-linear career path from Liberal Arts into Finance, which has given her increased creativity and innovation compared with what is typically seen in the industry. Lisa shares insights...
2021-09-1341 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 3 - Lisa Shissler Smith, Engineering Manager @ NetflixLisa Shissler Smith is an Engineering Manager at Netflix and a Director for Women Who Code. She lives near Raleigh, NC with her husband and their 5 children. She is passionate about inclusion and diversity, and has spoken to groups large and small about recruiting and retention. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, video games, desk dancing, and all things small.Lisa shares her non-linear career path, from starting out as a librarian to becoming an Engineering Manager at Netflix, one of the most prominent tech companies in America.Lisa gives advice to those applying for...
2021-09-0654 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 2 - Tammy Bryant Butow, Principal SRE @ GremlinTammy Bryant Butow is a Principal SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) at Gremlin, where she works on chaos engineering—the facilitation of controlled experiments to identify improvements. Gremlin's enterprise Chaos Engineering platform makes it easy to build more reliable applications in order to prevent outages, innovate faster, and earn customer trust. Previously, Tammy led SRE teams at Dropbox responsible for the databases and storage systems used by over 500 million customers and was an IMOC (incident manager on call), where she was responsible for managing and resolving high-severity incidents across the company. She has also worked in infrastructure engineering, security engineering, an...
2021-08-3051 min
DevOps Diversity PodcastEp. 1 - Larry Quinlan, Global CIO @ DeloitteLarry Quinlan is a principal at Deloitte—one of the world’s largest professional services organizations, with over 330,000 people in more than 150 countries and territories. He has held a number of roles including Global Chief Information Officer, and was responsible for all facets of technology. Additionally, he serves as dean of the Next Generation CIO Academy, Deloitte’s CIO leadership development program for client executives.In his own words, Larry asks "how does the skinny Black Boy raised on an island of 35, 000 people in the Caribbean, become the Global Chief Information Officer at the world's largest professional servic...
2021-08-2330 min
Cycle SeriesConor Delanbanque: One of the Good GuysOn this episode we talk to Conor Delanbanque, who rides for Good Guys Racing. Even though the team is based out of New York City, Conor and his wife now call Miami home. We talk about cycling in these cities and how they differ, training for USA Crits while maintaining a full time job and how these ‘Good Guys’ are out to inspire diversity within the cycling community. For more content on the South Florida cycling scene, be sure to follow us on:InstagramFaceBookYouTube
2021-05-1127 min
Criterium NationRacing in Florida featuring Conor Delanbanque of Good Guys RacingA lot to unpack in this episode, Conor Delanbanque of Good Guys Racing talks about his youth growing up as a mixed race kid living in England before coming to the US. He tells us about what it's like to race on the islands and helps convince us that we should all give it a shot. And he also helps start the conversation that will occupy so much of 2021, which is whether to race our bikes while Covid is still a huge threat to our society. He's made the decision to race and tells us about that thought process.
2021-03-031h 06
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 313: Conor Delanbanque on Hiring and Retaining DevOpsKishore Bhatia talks with Conor Delanbanque about DevOps Hiring, building and retaining top talent in the DevOps space. Topics include DevOps as a special Engineering skill, building DevOps mindset and culture, challenges in hiring and retaining top talent and building teams and best practices for DevOps engineers and employers hiring for these skills.
2017-12-181h 12Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 313: Conor Delanbanque on Hiring and Retaining DevOpsKishore Bhatia talks with Conor Delanbanque about DevOps Hiring, building and retaining top talent in the DevOps space. Topics include DevOps as a special Engineering skill, building DevOps mindset and culture, challenges in hiring and retaining top talent and building teams and best practices for DevOps engineers and employers hiring for these skills.
2017-12-181h 12Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersSE-Radio Episode 313: Conor Delanbanque on Hiring and Retaining DevOpsKishore Bhatia talks with Conor Delanbanque about DevOps Hiring, building and retaining top talent in the DevOps space. Topics include DevOps as a special Engineering skill, building DevOps mindset and culture, challenges in hiring and retaining top talent and building teams and best practices for DevOps engineers and employers hiring for these skills.
2017-12-181h 12