Goats, Unicorns and Whisperers walk into a podcast. The results were phenomenal. Michael Ducy, better known as The Goat Whisperer, joins us to discuss career growth with a DevOps-y twist. He started his career as a sysadmin, joined some incredible people during the Cloud craze, and came out a community…
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Your Geek Whisperers are joined by the proud propellerhead, Robert Peglar. He has the pleasure of being the VP of Advanced Storage at Micron and previously CTO of Americas for Isilon. He’s in his 26th year of work, in hexadecimal, and has a great deal of wisdom to share: From hardcore engineering chops…
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Your Geek Whisperers have the pleasure of welcoming Steve Herrod to the show, former CTO of VMware, who now drinks tons of coffee as a VC for General Catalyst. We have the opportunity to demystify what a venture capitalist does in a day and we capture a number career tips in the…
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The Geek Whisperers have the pleasure to talk a little tech with Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO of Coho Data. He has a story of academics, startups, open source, enterprise IT and work/life balance. What path is right for you? How is your career effected by academic pursuits? We have more open conversation than…
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In this round of Geek Whispering, we invite Leo Leung, VP of Marketing (yes, Marketing) at Scality to discuss his nerd cred. He helps us digest the job titles of 2015 and we rip through all kinds of storytelling at scale. We bring up: How career path are weird Past guest…
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Niki Acosta is bubbling with passion and bursting with OpenStack enthusiasm. These facts are familiar. What may be more surprising is how she navigates the world of job opportunities. Her flexibility to work within the business and voracious need to consume new information keeps her ahead of the Evangelist pack.…
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I noticed that some episodes lean on “you guys” as the collective noun. It’s a habit that has longer discussions on the internet than I plan to have here. I’d just like to admit that it’s something I noticed and would like to adjust. Thanks for listening. Matt of The Geek…
In this powerful episode of The Geek Whisperers, your Whisperers welcome Keith Townsend, better known as VirtualizedGeek, to discuss how he was crazy enough to listen to us. Keith announced leaving his job quite publicly and went on a wild ride of self-discovery. His reflections make for a great conversation for…
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