The Humans of DevOps Podcast Series

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Brendan O’Reilly , co-founder of DayshaDevOps . They discuss why working in silos is bad, how to initiate the breakdown of silos, and fostering cross-silo collaboration. An experienced technology leader running tech startups since 1990. From 2014 leading the team at Daysha to help clients adopt DevOps mindset, processes and tools.  B...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Jonathan Schneider, co-founder, and CEO of Moderne . They discuss how remote teams can overcome challenges using VR, the benefits of VR for remote teams, and how VR impacts code quality and developer productivity. View a short clip of the VR experience. Jonathan Schneider previously led the engineering effort around large-scale autom...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Christian Wiklund , co-founder and CEO of unitQ . They discuss why DevOps should prioritize real-time customer feedback in their decision making, the importance of fast feedback cycles and more! Prior to unitQ, Christian and Niklas Lindstrom founded Skout, a social app with over 50 million users that was acquired by The Meet Group in...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Dr. Gautham Pallapa , DevOps Institute Ambassador, founder of Transformity and an executive advisor for VMware. He discusses the human skill of empathy - what it is, why it's important in DevOps, how to be more empathetic and more. Learn more about Gautham's book, " Leading with Empathy " here: https://etransforms.com/ As the founder...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Eric Chapman , DevOps Institute Ambassador and Principal Consultant at Liatrio . He discusses dynamic learning capability – what it is, why it’s important to software and DevOps organizations, dojos and more. Eric Chapman is a Principal Consultant at Liatrio, helping clients deliver software faster and safer. With a background in sof...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined once again by Pauline Narvas ( @paulienuh ) and Leonardo Murillo ( @murillodigital ) for the first-ever Humans of DevOps panel! They chat with host Jason Baum on what imposter syndrome is, why imposter syndrome affects certain groups more, how to identify imposter syndrome, how to combat it and more. Pauline Narvas is a Community Engine...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined once again by DevOps Institute Ambassador, Professional speaker, Straight Talk for Government chapter President, Senior Principal with MITRE Corporation and all-around Rockstar Tracy Bannon ( @TracyBannon ). Tracy discusses the human skill of proactive honesty - what it is, why it's important to software and DevOps organizations, how to...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by DevOps Institute Ambassador and Technical Evangelist Marco Coulter . Marco discusses the human skill of delegation - what it is, why it's important, how to delegate, tips and more. Marco Coulter, (he/him), @marcocoulter Marco has an over 20-year history of guiding companies globally in technology adoption. Published in Forbes and CIO...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Pauline Narvas of Gitpod. Pauline discusses her journey into tech, including starting to code and build websites at age 8, the importance of community and finding your tribe, cloud developer environments and so much more! Pauline Narvas is a Community Engineer at Gitpod and community founder of Ladies in DevOps . Pauline is an intern...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Kristen Buchanan , founder of Edify . Find out how DevOps principles can be applied to people and team management, what the future of work holds and so much more! Kristen Buchanan is the CEO and Founder of Edify, an AI platform that builds high-performing engineering teams, starting with onboarding. She started her first company in 2...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Dan Roberts , CEO and president of Ouellette & Associates Consulting , host of the CIO Whisperers podcast, author and speaker. They discuss qualities of great leaders, the "HEAR" model and listening, Nelson Mandela plus way more! Dan Roberts has mentored, studied and partnered with thousands of CIOs and technology leaders for mor...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Stephen Dick , VP of site reliability engineering at BetterCloud. They discuss dad jokes, getting his first big break on the international IT scene at SAP, leading as an introvert, intrinsic curiosity, the power of listening plus way more! Stephen is an Irish native and Tech executive who has been living in Silicon Valley, California...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Helen Beal , Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute. They discuss Helen's tech beginnings including an * interesting * data entry story, human skills, learning and helping people plus way more! Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute, and ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation....

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Lonye Ford , CEO of Arlo Solutions . They discuss her journey including being raised by the military, overcoming adversity, manifestation, advice, making success happen plus way more! Lonye Nicole Ford is CEO of Arlo Solutions, a minority/veteran/8a/HUBZone-owned business headquartered in Washington, DC., providing Intelligence and C...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Farshad Abasi , Chief Security Officer at Forward Security . They discuss building his own videogames, how he went from being a biology major to a security professional, creating an eCommerce platform from scratch in the early days of the internet + more! Farshad Abasi is an innovative technologist with over twenty-five years of expe...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Eveline Oehrlich , Industry Analyst and Chief Research Officer at DevOps Institute where she leads the research of relevant and objective content creation. They discuss what the Upskilling Report is, why it's important, takeaways from last year's survey, WFH challenges and the skills gap + more! Take the 2022 Upskilling IT Survey Now...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Brian Dawson , Vice President of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at The Linux Foundation . Brian focuses on identifying, sharing, and promoting development best practices in the open-source software community. Prior to his role at The Linux Foundation, he led an agile transformation consulting practice helping organizat...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Joel Kruger , DevSecOps Tech Lead at GovernmentCIO and DevOps Institute's newest ambassador.  They discuss his background including going from being a struggling musician to an IT professional, hacking his friend (with consent), the importance of community and more!  Want access to more content like this? Become a Premium member of D...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Brandon Durbin , Founder & CEO of Akava - a Silicon Valley software engineering consultancy who helps start-ups and enterprises such as Disney, Oracle, Lbrands, Cisco and Uber build innovative cloud, devops, web and mobile solutions.. Brandon Durbin is a tech entrepreneur, investor and advisor. They discuss entrepreneurship, his...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Tom Henricksen ( @TomHenricksen ), Technical Professional, Founder of Agile Online Summit and DevOp Online Summit and DevOps Institute Ambassador. They discuss his popular talk, "Humans are Hard, Code is Easy," his background, lessons learned and more. View the entire "Humans are Hard, Code is Easy" presentation here. Tom is an exper...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Jason Meller ( @jmeller ), CEO and founder of Kolide and Author of Honest Security - A guide to endpoint security and device management that doesn't erode your values. Download your free copy . They discuss his journey into IT, cybersecurity and ethics, lessons learned and more! Jason has dedicated his career to building products and...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Leonardo Murillo ( @murillodigital ), Cloud Native Technologies Expert, DevOps Institute Ambassador, Co-Chair GitOps Working Group. They discuss his journey into IT, hardships as a means to progress, advice to the Humans of DevOps, and more! His passion for technology began at 13 years old. He founded the second BBS in Costa Rica, at...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Tracy Bannon ( @TracyBannon ), Senior Principal/ Software Architect & DevOps Strategic Advisor at MITRE and DevOps Institute Ambassador. They discuss her journey into IT, being a 'Dev' married to an 'Ops', advice to the Humans of DevOps, and more!   Tracy is a featured speaker at industry events including ATARC Federal DevSecOps...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Simone Jo Moore ( @simonejomoore ), DevOps Institute Ambassador, Senior Consultant, Master Trainer and Speaker. They discuss Simone's military and HR background, psychology, creativity and the art of DevOps plus more! Simone’s work involves guiding the digital journey of organisations and individuals in adapting to HumanisingIT. Blen...

On this episode of the Humans of DevOps, Jason Baum is joined by Aparna Balsundar ( @AparnaB0607 ), Ambassador and India Chapter Lead at DevOps Institute. They discuss how Aparna moved to DevOps from HR, DevOps hiring trends, the future of WFH and more! Want access to more content like this? Become a Premium member of DevOps Institute. A Premium Membership gives you all-access to what DevOps Insti...