Today I have the great pleasure of speaking with Lionel, a systems engineer with an incredible story about changing his career from a dead end job into the hustle and bustle of systems and software.

Next episode I am going to dive into what I've been learning about threads and race conditions.

### Introducing Lionel - Systems Engineer - Ops, Dev, DBA - Management side, day to day, how he got to where he is, biggest challenge

### Threads and Race Conditions - Sneak peak into next episode - Golang tool - Functional Programming - Testing vs Design

### Lionel Interview - Who are you - What do you do

### How did you get here? - Your pressing situation - Cranking out certs - Getting the job

### Tech Enthusiast - Favorite technology stack - What interests you - What motivates you - Favorite part of your job

### Current Project

### Future and Biggest Challenge

### Shout out to Josh Duffney and Hayden Barnes