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