Improv #1 by Kahne Raja

Memories of The Quad at Sydney Uni. I tend to visit whenever I'm in town.

Love,

Kahne

A composition about innocence, privacy and grand realizations.

D Minor Theme by Kahne Raja

Riverside by Kahne Raja

Piano Etude: E Minor by Kahne Raja

Gearóid Crowley is a Lead Consultant at Readify.

He's from Ireland, based in Sydney these days, and passionate about helping organisation build quality products with the power of automated release management.

Today I gave Gearóid a call to talk to him about his first line of code, his many years in the industry and what he enjoys most about working at Readify.

In Discussion:

- My first Amstrad. 1992. Ireland.

- First line of code.

- Building a chess game in assembly.

- Solving a problem is often about how it's setup.

- First job in tech.

- How did Readify appear on your radar?

- Life and thinking of the team at Readify.

- Changing landscape of cloud computing and the resulting rise of Devops, discipline and quality.

- Busy Queues. Idle Queues.

- Books. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr. Personal Kanban by Jim Benson.

- Xmas cooking kanban board.

Luke Drumm is a Senior Consultant at Readify.

He's based in Sydney, an author, a speaker, a coder, and he's passionate about building awesome software.

Today I gave Luke a call to talk to him about his first line of code, his many years in the industry and what he enjoys most about working at Readify.

In Discussion:

- Was there a specific moment when you realised you can use magic to make computers to do crazy things?

- First computer. First line of code. 1985.

- Learning tech at a tiny little international boarding school.

- First job. Selling computer Hardware.

- Working at Fujitsu. Making the transition to Development.

- First year at Readify, aka Monash.Net.

- Teaching is a great way to learn.

- 13 years at Readify is a pretty long slog. What has kept you here for so long?

- What sorts of connections do you see between Art and Technology?

- What's behind your approach to public speaking and presentations?

- Books, magazines, and saving games onto cassette tapes.

Mitch Denny is Readify's Chief Technology Officer.

He's based in Melbourne and passionate about cloud computing, mobility, devops, 3D printing, IOT and solving real world business problems.

Today I gave Mitch a call to talk to him his first line of code, what he's been up to this past week and what he enjoys most about working at Readify.

In Discussion:

- Growing up in the country, local computer stores and first line of code.

- Our origins as Monash.Net and helping organisation get technically "ready".

- Starting out at Readify as a Consultant.

- Winning the presenters award at TechEd.

- Starting one of the world's first .net user groups in Melbourne.

- Dev pod.

- Three different ways Readify operates.

Parma Juss is the National Telstra Sales Manager at Readify.

He's 46, based in Sydney and passionate about helping businesses capitalise on the potential of technology.

Parma is the sort of guy who walks into world class organisation, makes friends, cuts deals and brings a kickass team of technical specialists to a real world business problem.

Today I gave Parma a call to find out more about how he found his feet in the technology industry, what he's been up to this past week and what he enjoys most about working at Readify.

In Discussion:

- 10 one liners about you.

- Parma's origins.

- How the brand has changed.

- What clients are looking for.

- Open culture.

- Being part of the team.

- The next generation of cloud solution development.

- Product and service diversity.