The Tech Trek

Brian Jackson - Determining which technical skills you can be more flexible filtering on

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Highlights from my conversation with Brian:

  • Niche industry but not niche skills
  • Working with other teams to partner where there is a skills gap
  • Realizing which parts of the tech stack you can “let go” to broaden the candidate pool
  • Software engineering foundations go a long way
  • Building an ecosystem around the Windows platform

    • Meet: Brian Jackson ​​is a DevOps advocate currently helping create immersive Star Wars experiences at Lucasfilm. Currently, Brian is the Manager of DevOps Engineering at Lucasfilm. Previously helped Apple Pay and ESPN.com be more productive through delivery automation.

    If you have any questions for Brian, please feel free to reach out via:

    https://twitter.com/jaxzin

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianrjackson/

    https://www.instagram.com/jaxzin/

    I hope you enjoyed the episode, the best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please send me a message if you would like me to cover certain topics with future guests.

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