Ardan Labs Podcast

Mat Ryer is a serial entrepreneur and a panelist on the Go Time podcast! He is currently the co-founder at Pace.dev & Firesearch.dev. In this episode, we hear about Mat’s very early experiences with programming at the age of six and how teachers influenced his opinions of higher education. Then Bill digs in to find out how Mat is able to continually identify product opportunities and execute at lightning speed. 

Connect with Mat:
Pace.dev
Firesearch.dev
Xbar (formerly Bitbar)
Github
Twitter
Linkedin

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Xbar on GitHub
Machine box
Mat’s GitHub sponsor page
Bill Kennedy on Mechanical Sympathy

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Kris Brandow is a Senior Software Engineer at Wunderkind and a panelist on the GoTime podcast! We learn about Kris’s experience growing up in a technical household and how he had no desire to follow in his parents footsteps. Although he went to college for writing and audio engineering, we uncover that Kris may have accidentally received the ultimate computer science degree.

Connect with Kris:
Skriptble.me
Twitter
Github
LinkedIn

Mentioned in today’s episode:
GoTime Podcast
Wunderkind
Drupal
MongoDB

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You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Guinevere Saenger is a Software Engineer on the Development Lifecycle Team at Github. We hear about the challenges of pursuing a career in music and how, through an unbelievable turn of events, she has since transitioned to a successful career in tech! Although its clear Guinevere put in the work to get where she is today, she is outspoken regarding the lucky breaks she received in tech versus music.

Connect with Guinevere:
LinkedIn
Github
Twitter

Mentioned in today’s episode:
kube-service-exporter
Ada Developers Academy
Samsung SDS Cloud Native Computing Team
Github

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You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Work with us: https://www.ardanlabs.com/my/careers/

Bryan Liles is a Principal Engineer at VMware where he is working on the Telco & Edge Cloud BU team building telecom software that runs on Kubernetes.  We examine Bryan’s unique path to success, which he credits to being goal focused and knowing his worth, among other things. He talks candidly about how his encounters with racism and poor leadership led to his frequent job hopping. This leads Bill to re-evaluate some of the criteria he uses when looking at a resume. 

Connect with Bryan:
LinkedIn
Twitter

Mentioned in today’s episode:
VMware
Heptio

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Ana Margarita Medina is a Senior Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. You may know her from one of her many conference talks or maybe just from Twitter! In this episode, Ana shares her journey into tech and why it is OK to take a nonlinear path to the job of your dreams. From running a freelance company at the age of 15 to dropping out of college to enter the workforce, Ana’s experiences have contributed to her vast knowledge and passion for her industry. 

Connect with Ana:
www.anammedina.com
Twitter
LinkedIn
Instagram

Mentioned in today’s episode:
NAF
Techqueria
Code2040
Gremlin

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You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Dave Appleton is a man of many talents (Seriously, he has too many to mention!).

We kick off our conversation hearing about Dave’s first experiences with programming in the late '60s using hand punch cards. We discuss his early years as a low-level hardware programmer, working with semiconductors, and how he ended up working with blockchain technologies!

Connect with Dave:
Dave Appleton on Twitter
HelloGold
Golang Malaysia

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You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

John Arundel is software consultant, mentor, and author of the book “For the Love of Go”. We talk about his early fascination with computers, the role his mother played in planting these seeds, and the steps he took in his younger years to follow his passion. We then explore John’s indirect job path, having to settle for work as a technical writer out of college and stumbling into IT and system administration. But the major lesson that comes out of this is that these 'detours' actually served John's later work, developing parts of his expertise that would aid him in his writing and mentoring.

Connect with John:
LinkedIn
Twitter
Book: For the Love of Go

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Wilken Rivera is a senior software engineer with the Packer team at HashiCorp. In this interview, listeners will get a sense of Wilken’s journey from a dance background to software engineering, his career timeline, and how he earned the privilege to choose where he wanted to work instead of having to take any job he was offered. As the conversation comes to a close, Wilken shares how he learned the Go programming language and what it meant for him to become a part of the community.

Connect with Wilken:
LinkedIn
Twitter

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You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Carlisia Thompson is a senior OSS engineer at VMware and host of The Podlets podcast. We cover the unique path Carlisia took from her childhood in Brazil to becoming an influential member of the Go community. She shares the story of her path to a graduate CS degree, her thoughts on the value of traditional education, and offers valuable advice for anyone who is looking to get into software engineering.

Connect with Carlisia:
Twitter
LinkedIn

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In this episode, we talk to Andy Walker about his childhood and how he got into programming, his journey in cybersecurity, and some of the soft skills that are so valuable to have in this industry. We kick things off by hearing Andy talk about his early love of computers, his early hacks, and how he fell into more serious programming at college after switching from Biology to a CS major. We talk about the value of meetups for making friends and how these events can be more welcoming! We then wrap up hearing Andy talk about where he would like to see himself in the future.

About The Guest:
Andy Walker is a Gopher, Go GDE, security nerd, and eternal student. He enjoys camping, home fabrication and long walks on the beach with serialized data formats. He lives in Columbia, Maryland, which is just a lovely little town.

Connect with Andy:
LinkedIn
Twitter
GitHub

Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
AmeriCorps
Sourcefire
CISCO
WarGames
Baltimore Go Meetup
OrlanGo

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You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!