Today’s episode is not just a story - but an adventure! We chat with self-proclaimed “Container Tinkerer” Christian Kniep, who has gone from a small village in Germany to an industry expert in containers. In this story we hear about life hacks in the Germany army, traveling and being a teacher, making ugly websites (below), and landing some impressive roles in tech. Along the way his love for technology and appetite for adventure is easy to see, and we champion Christian for his resiliency and bravery in paving new paths. We also talk about container technologies, high performance computing, and cloud (and our own fears about all of that). We hope you enjoy this episode!

Christian’s self-proclaimed “ugly website”

In this episode, I interview Informatics Honors Students from Stellenbosch University, including Megan Stock,

This is also a really fun episode because it is the first group interview on the podcast, and between the lines

Brandon Mitchell is a DevOps Solutions Architect at Boxboat (an IBM company), and can help you across the stack from shell scripting up to cloud orchestration and container security. This is an especially exciting episode because we talk about bleeding edge, and relatively uncharted territory - container security. Yes, there are companies out there working on this, but it’s not yet clear what a reproducible and secure build means for a container. Brandon has some ideas, and not only that, he is a Docker captain and an easy go to person to talk about container standards, security, and general usage. In this episode, we talk about good practices for security, reproducible builds, SBOMs, OCI artifacts, and what is up-and-coming for container security. It was a pleasure having Brandon on the show and I hope you enjoy the episode!

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We often talk about wearing many hats. But as experts in software engineering, high performance computing,

To do this kind of hat trick, you need to be brave, and that is just one of the many qualities of our guest

In this third episode of our newly rebranded Developer Stories podcast, we follow Chris on his journey

Dr. James Cuff is the new inagural Executive Director of the MIT Office of Research Computing and Data (ORCD),

In tech, we all can tell a horror story. It’s when you accidentally ran a command,

Happy Halloween listeners! 🐈‍⬛💀🎃👻🥘🪦👿☠️

For this episode of RSE Stories we are joined by Fernanda Foertter, Director at Voltron Data and experienced HPC practitioner. You may know her on Twitter as @hpcprogrammer, or for her significant contributions at earlier roles at Nvidia or Oak Ridge National Lab, but have you heard her origin story, and how she got involved in this work? In this episode, we travel with Fernanda through her early work, discovering her love and saavy for computers, and following her interests. We talk about her journey through national labs, tech companies, and now at Voltron Data where her adventure continues.

Last time in the SC22 Mini-series, we learned about the Early Career Program (ECP)

Our six guests in this episode are Sameh Abdulah, Jean Luca Bez, Silvina Caino-Lores,

All participants encourage any professionals in their early career to apply for

As a bonus, two of our interviewees also spoke to Marina Kraeva for an SC22 blog

Ana Trisovic is a Research Associate at Harvard School of Public Health and a Sloan Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Effectively, she does data engineering for her research group and works on reproducible data and software dissemination. First, Ana speaks of her background, from her first job at Microsoft Development Center Serbia, to CERN, UChicago, and Harvard. She shares what inspired her to pursue projects relating to open-source software, open data, and open science. Her work focuses on big data workflows and research reproducibility, and she shares her experiences working with particle physics experimental data, geospatial and climate data, and sensitive medical data. As a member of Consortium of Scientific Software Registries and Repositories (SciCodes), she contributes to research data and software sharing and preservation efforts. Her study shows that research software and code scripts are frequently shared with data, and she is working on better supporting those in the Dataverse data repository. We discuss data engineering roles in the broader RSE scope and recognize them as undervalued yet critical for research groups working on secondary data analysis. Ana speaks of the joys and challenges of working with diverse datasets and the value of open-source software, reusable data workflows, and adequate documentation. She shares recommendations for publishing research data with software and emphasizes the role of data repositories. We end the conversion with community engagement topic ideas.

Marina Kraeva is a Senior Research Computing Systems Analyst at Iowa State

She encourages all professionals in their early career to apply for the program