#BITTechTalk by Blacks In Technology

On this episode of the #BITTechTalk podcast, Greg and Ayori speak with Matt Stratton (Solutions architect at Chef) and Michael Lanyon (VP of Engineering for Critical Mass) about DevOps.

Resources mentioned:

Arrested DevOps podcast: http://www.arresteddevops.com/

Shades of DevOps e-book: http://devopsebook.com/shades-of-devops/

The Phoenix Project: http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592

The Ship Show: http://theshipshow.com/ & http://theshipshow.com/diversity

HangOps: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHWnE3a8_es-NNdX1sTCww



Follow:
Matt Stratton : @mattstratton
Michael Lanyon: @lanyonm

We are continuing our monthly #FoundersHour series by speaking with entrepreneurs and startup founders Candace Mitchell and Chanel Martin of Techturized, a startup company whose focus is to provide innovative solutions to the hair care industry through science and technology.

Tune in as we discuss their journey through the startup world, their vision for the hair care industry and being women of color in technology.

Diversity issues in technology are nothing new and given the recent diversity reports released by tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter we all know that there is a lot of work that needs to be done.

Take a look at the average technology conference speaker list and you'll see much of the same and even worse when it comes to people of color. Take an even closer look at the attendees of tech conferences and....well you get the point.

So what do we do? How can we increase diversity at tech cons?

Join us as we sit down and discuss how Bryan Smith is tackling the diversity problem at technology conferences as the founder and organizer of the Free and Open Source Software conference, FossetCon.

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast, Greg and Ayori speak with Master Technical Trainer at Salesforce Leah McGowen-Hare.

Listen as we talk about diversity in tech, demistifying technology, staying relevant in tech and Soul Train lines at home.

About Leah McGowen-Hare:

Leah has more than twenty years of tech experience under her belt mastering roles ranging from Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer

She is an inspiration to communities of color through organizations such as LIFE Course, Girls Who Code and BlackGirls Code.

Follow Leah on Twitter: @LeahBMH

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast, Greg and Ayori are joined by Clojure developer and StrangeLoop conference founder, Alex Miller. We discuss creating more diverse tech conferences, functional programming, a day in the life of a Clojure language maintainer, offline computer science, and, yep you guessed it, the StrangeLoop conference.

http://www.thestrangeloop.com
Follow Alex on Twitter: @puredanger
His blog: http://tech.puredanger.com/

In this episode of the Blacks In Technology podcast, Greg and Ayori are joined by CIO/VP of Operations at Puppet Labs, Nigel Kersten. Listen as we talk about the Puppet configuration management tool, diversity and hiring practices in technology, DevOps and much more.

Follow Nigel at @nigelkersten

This episode we welcome our guest Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey is the former Director of Operations at PuppetLabs and is now the Director of Engineering at Monsoon Commerce. Kelsey manages a team of 14 across QA, Software Developement, UX and Tech Docs. He's curerntly involved in the Go programming language and is a contributor to the Go project itself along with many open source projects written in Go.
Current projects include:

Packer: Where he is a core committer and has developed a number of plugins and even received a nice shout out by Google here: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/12/using-google-compute-engine-with-open-source-software.html

Kelsey also heads up a Go Hands on Workshops as described here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-go-workshop-tickets-10903473583.

Kelsey is the Co-editor of the golang weekly news letter: http://www.golangweekly.com/archive/

Public Speaking:
Kelsey has given many tech talks at meetups and IT conferences (PuppetConfs, Ansible Fest, etc). My next talk will be at GopherCon, the first Go conference including many top names in the industryhttp://www.gophercon.com/

Past talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TK-gUNFHk (External Data: Hiera, ENC's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlYEJ-fpfU (Streamlining Workflows With Puppet Faces)
Ansible Fest 2014 (Ansible Packer Provisioner)

Follow Kelsey on Twitter: @kelseyhightower
or email Kelsey: kelseyhightower[at]gmai.com

This episode Greg and Ayori talk with Dr. Andrew Williams (Marquette University) and Dawn C. Hayes (Founder of Coollabs http://www.coollabs.org) about Robots, Spelbots, Raspberry Pi's, Arduinos and much more hardware goodness.



Follow Dr. Williams: @outofthebox1
Follow Dawn C. Hayes: @cool_labs