Ardan Labs Podcast

Anna-Katharina Wickert is currently pursuing her PhD in computer science with a focus on security and organizer for the Golang User meetup in Frankfurt, Germany. From programming at the age of 13 to deciding to pursue a PhD, she provides valuable insight into her journey through years of education. 
 
00:00 Introduction
04:53 First Memory Using a Computer
09:53 Interests and College Decisions
25:09 Takeaways from the degree
27:06 Why Decide to Stay In School
32:31 Mastering in Security
37:33 After The Masters degree
39:23 How Did You Discover Go?
40:53 Deciding to do a PhD
43:55 What's Involved with getting a PhD
50:34 What's your Dream Job?
54:41 Native Fuzzing in Go
1:00:49 GopherCon EU 2022
1:02:57  Contact info

Connect with Anna:
LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/anna-katharina-wickert-60597a142/en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/akwickert

Mentioned in today’s episode:
GopherCon EU: https://gophercon.eu
GopherCon Talk 2022: https://youtu.be/yTvK8lzhENo
Frankfurt Rhein-Main Gophers Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/gophers-frm/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/ 
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ 
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog 
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Episode Description:

Brian Terry is a senior solutions architect on the ISV Integrations team at AWS (formerly with the Cloud Formation team). We hear about his unique journey from being a star athlete, to racing motorcycles, and eventually completing 2 master’s degrees and landing his dream job.   

Connect with Brian:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ineedhelpbrian
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-t-b3276250/
GitHub: https://github.com/brianterry

Mentioned in today’s episode:
AWS Cloudformation: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/
AWS On Air: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/live-video/aws-on-air/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Sonja Price is a career strategist, salary advisor, leadership coach, and the founder of Dynamo Careers. We learn all about Sonja’s journey from being employee #2 at a startup in the early 2000’s to finding her passion for helping others to advance their career. You’ll hear tips on negotiating, how to ask for a raise, and how to get to where you want to go in your career.

Connect with Sonja:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonjaprice/
Dynamo Careers: https://dynamocareers.com/

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Pivot Point System (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Pivot-Point-System-Unlock-Career/dp/1092945598
The Infinite Leader (Book): https://dynamocareers.com/the-infinite-leader-book
Why Should You Change Jobs Every 2-3 Years? (Blog): https://dynamocareers.com/change-jobs-every-2-3-years
Free Assessment: https://dynamocareers.com/assessment

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Ron Minnich is the President of the Plan 9 Foundation and a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google. Ron has been on the forefront of many technologies, starting his journey with computers as a kid in the 1960’s. We hear stories of building relay computers, cluster infrastructure research, supercomputing, LinuxBIOS (coreboot), Plan 9, & his present day work at Google. 

Connect with Ron:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreboot
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronminnich/
Plan 9 Foundation: https://plan9foundation.org/
Coreboot (LinuxBIOS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot 

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Gemini 2 Launch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_2
Geniac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac
(Book) The Elements of Networking Style: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Networking-Style-Animadversions-Intercomputer/dp/0595088791
(Book) Software Tools: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Brian-W-Kernighan/dp/020103669X
(Book) Computer Lib/Dream Machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines
OpenSUSE Talk (June 2022): https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC22/program/proposals/3767
IBM Blue Gene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Blue_Gene
Emulytics: https://www.sandia.gov/emulytics/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Florent Biville maintains the official Go driver at graph database company, neo4j. We talk about the challenges and benefits of constantly learning new languages, interviewing at large companies, consulting life, and the importance of building trust through consistency.

Connect with Florent:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fbiville
Website: https://florent.biville.net
GitHub: https://github.com/fbiville

Mentioned in today’s episode:
neo4j: https://neo4j.com
Go Driver Documentation: https://neo4j.com/developer/go/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Steve Wade is a founding engineer at KSOC Labs, a cloud-native SaaS platform built to remediate Kubernetes security risks in real time. We talk about the struggles around playing professional soccer, the importance of saying yes to opportunities, finding fulfillment in your career, and LOTS of Kubernetes chat.

Connect with Steve:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/swade1987
Website: https://www.stevenwade.co.uk/
GitHub: https://github.com/swade1987

Mentioned in today’s episode:
KSOC Labs: https://www.ksoc.com/
Cuelang: https://cuelang.org/
Kelsey Hightower on healthz: https://vimeo.com/173610242

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Daniel Whitenack is a co-host of the Practical AI podcast and a data scientist with SIL International. In one of our more technical episodes, we hear about Daniel’s journey from computational physics in college to using artificial intelligence for language processing. Tune in for a conversation on ethical AI, endangered languages, real-time translation, and more!

Connect with Daniel:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwhitena
Website: https://datadan.io/
Email: [email protected]
Practical AI podcast: https://changelog.com/practicalai
Gopher Slack Channel: https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/ 

Mentioned in today’s episode:
SIL International: https://sil.org
Multilingual AI: https://ai.sil.org
Federated Learning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning
Microsoft Flight Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator
Babel Fish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_Fish_(website)
Data Science with Go (GopherCon 2016): https://youtu.be/D5tDubyXLrQ
Pachyderm: https://www.pachyderm.com/
Nvidia Grace Hopper: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-cpu/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Adelina Simion is a technology evangelist at Form3 and teaches courses on Go with LinkedIn Learning. We learn about Adelina’s passion for learning new things and now sharing that knowledge with others. Tune in to learn how someone becomes a LinkedIn Learning instructor, tips on interviewing, thoughts on changing jobs to add skills, and more.

Connect with Adelina:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/classic_addetz
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelina-simion/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/adelinasimion 

Mentioned in today’s episode:
LinkedIn Learning courses: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/adelina-simion
GoLab Conference: https://golab.io/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Ian Lewis is a developer advocate at Google Cloud. In this podcast episode, Ian shares some of his insights on how to be a productive engineer when the codebase is in another language, how to build a successful conference, navigating the job market, containers, security and more. 

Connect with Ian:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IanMLewis
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmlewis/
Website: https://www.ianlewis.org

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/
Commodore 128: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128
Unibasic: https://www.unibasic.com/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Mark Thompson is a senior developer relations engineer at Google. Mark has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge with younger engineers. We hear about his experience growing up in Chicago, overcoming adversity & peer pressure, navigating the job market, interviewing at Google, and much more!

Connect with Mark:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marktechson
Website: https://marktechson.com
Email List: http://marktechson.dev/welcome

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs