Geeking Out with Adriana Villela

About our guest: Alex Boten is a senior staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape by mashing keyboards. From building core network infrastructure to mobile client applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge of how complex troubleshooting distributed applications is. This led him to the domain of obser...

About our guest: Ana Margarita Medina is a Sr. Staff Developer Advocate. She speaks on all things SRE, DevOps, and Reliability. She is a self-taught engineer with over 13 years of experience, focusing on cloud infrastructure and reliability. She has been part of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.25, serves on the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee, and is on the GC for CNCF's Keptn project, W...

About our guest: Marino Wijay is a Canadian, Traveller, International Speaker, Open Source Advocate for Service Mesh, CNI, Kubernetes, and Networking. He is an Ambassador @ Civo Cloud, and Lead Organizer for KubeHuddle Toronto. He is passionate about technology and modern distributed systems. He will always fall back to the patterns of Networking and the ways of the OSI. Community building is his...

About our guest: Doug Ramirez is a Principal Architect at Uplight, where he aligns his passion for software and the planet. Find our guest on: LinkedIn Find us on: All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela Show Links: Claudius Crozet (engineer) SPARCstation pine (email client) PDP-11 SmallTalk The Y2K Problem VisualBasic...

About our guest: Ash Patel is an independent advocate for better software reliability practices. He's been a seasoned manager for over a decade and takes an organizational design and team development view on improving technology outcomes. Find our guest on: LinkedIn SREPath Podcast Find us on: All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/ad...

About our guest: Developer Advocate, teacher, and failed startup founder. Published author. Currently leading all things DevRel at Tracetest.io . Find our guest on: bento.me/adnanrahic (link to Adnan's socials) Adnan on Medium Find us on: All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela Show Links: Viber Node.js Angular JS JQuer...

About our guest: Daniela Baron is Staff Engineer at FundThrough. She has over 20 years of experience delivering software solutions for a variety of product, project and SaaS based companies with many languages and frameworks including Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (Node.js, React, Ember, Angular), Go, Python, and Java/Spring/Hibernate. Specialties include analyzing complex business requirements, writi...

About our guest: As a founding member of Shopify's incident response program for nearly 7 years, Ashley Sawatsky led incident communications and processes. Currently, as Senior Incident Response Advocate at Rootly, she consults with tech giants like Canva, Cisco, NVIDIA, and more on incident response strategies. Find our guest on: X (Twitter) LinkedIn Find us on: All of our social channels are on...

About our guest: Nayana Shetty is a Principal Engineer at the LEGO Group. The LEGO Group is going through a massive digital transformation and she is helping with the architecture and engineering practices especially in the Ecommerce, Marketing and Channels technology. Over the years, she has led teams building products and tools that help organizations with site reliability and getting on the dev...

About our guest: Riaan has worked for Multi-National companies in Portugal, Germany, China, United States, South Africa and Australia. Certified Hashicorp Terraform Instructor HashiCorp Ambassador 2021, 2022, 2023 Creator of Hashiqube - The best DevOps Lab running all the Hashicorp products HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Certified Certified Hashicorp Vault Implementation Partner 10+ years relevant...

About our guest: Edith is a Tech Evangelist at Percona, a company known for its work with open source databases. She used to work as a DevOps engineer, helping IT companies and startups set up and use DevOps. After taking a break for two years, Edith started working with Open Source, which helped her get back into the job market. She has made valuable contributions to the Apache Airflow project du...

About our guest: Jennifer Riggins is a culture side of tech storyteller, journalist, writer, and event and podcast host, helping to share the stories where culture and technology collide and to translate the impact of the tech we are building. She has been a working writer since 2003, and is currently based in London. Find our guest on: X (Twitter) LinkedIn Mastodon Bluesky Find us on: All of our...

About our guest: 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 Observability Engineering , and loves free speech, free software, and single malt scotc...

About our guest: Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system ad...

About our guest: Jacob Aronoff (he/him/his) is a Staff Engineer at ServiceNow Cloud Observability, formerly Lightstep, the tech lead for the Telemetry Pipeline team, and an OpenTelemetry maintainer for the OpenTelemetry Operator project. He's spent his career in a variety of backend roles acting as a distributed systems engineer, an SRE and a DevOps professional. Jacob's focus is enabling customer...

About our guest: Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a seasoned software engineer, a Governance Committee member for the OpenTelemetry project, and an emeritus maintainer of the Jaeger project. With a strong focus on observability and open-source development, Juraci has delivered talks at conferences such as KubeCon EU, KubeCon NA, OpenSource Summit, Devoxx Belgium, FOSDEM, and various DevOpsDays. With deep...

About our guest: Abby (she/her) is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering. Abby is an international keynote sp...

About our guest: Ori Shoshan is the Co-Founder and CTO of Otterize , where he spearheads a leading Workload Identity and Access Management platform that automates and simplifies access control for cloud-native environments. By offering a declarative and zero-trust approach to access management, Otterize empowers organizations to streamline network policy management while ensuring maximum security....

About our guest: Tim’s tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started in avionics in the US Marine Corps and then into various government contracting roles. After moving to the private sector, Tim worked both in large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations...

About our guest: Tim’s tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started in avionics in the US Marine Corps and then into various government contracting roles. After moving to the private sector, Tim worked both in large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations...

About our guest: Rob Golabek is Chief Architect & CEO at Translucent Computing. A thought leader and insightful tech visionary with over 20 years of experience, Rob is a Cloud Native expert specializing in App Modernization. Leveraging data, AI & cloud for digital transformation, he provides expert guidance to clients navigating the complex, ever-changing cloud-native landscape. Rob has shaped the...

About our guest: Luiz Aoqui (he/him) is a senior software engineer at HashiCorp working on Nomad. Find our guest on: X (Twitter) Mastodon LinkedIn Find us on: All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout Adriana’s X (Twitter) Adriana’s Mastodon Adriana’s LinkedIn Adriana’s Instagram Adriana’s Bluesky Show Links: Go (Golang) HashiCorp HCL Nomad Java JAR Amazon EKS Google GKS (GKE) Microsof...

About our guest: Renata Rocha has been working with technology since 1997, first as a sysadmin. She then found her passion for Cloud Engineering and never looked back. She has been at Slalom since 2019 and loves everything about the Cloud, Platform Engineering, and the endless possibilities it brings us. Find our guest on: Mastodon LinkedIn Find us on: All of our social channels are on bento.me/ge...

About our guest: Jennifer Moore (she/her) is a staff software engineer at InfluxData with extensive experience in software development, devops, and testing. Find our guest on: X (Twitter) Mastodon LinkedIn Find us on: All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout Adriana’s X (Twitter) Adriana’s Mastodon Adriana’s LinkedIn Adriana’s Instagram Adriana’s Bluesky Show Links: TI BASIC Quality A...

About our guest: Hazel Weakly (she/her/hers) spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, automation, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies, across a wide range of tech, and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. Hazel currently serves as a Director on the board of the Haskell Fou...