In our final episode of the year, Forrest Brazeal talks his journey from home schooling to A Cloud Guru and beyond and performs a special medley of his greatest hits.

Forrest Brazeal is an enterprise cloud architect, speaker, and community advocate. Currently Head Of Content for Google Cloud and prior a senior manager at A Cloud Guru, he spent years designing applications for the cloud at Infor and Trek10. One of the original AWS Serverless Heroes, Forrest was also named one of Jefferson Frank's Top 7 Global AWS Experts in 2019

In this episode Kim Lewandowski talks about her journey, the secret origin of Chainguard.dev, and an EXCLUSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT!

Kim is an engineer turned product manager. She started her career in the security space working for Lawrence Livermore Labs, and most recently worked for Google. She launched a number of Cloud enterprise products and created popular open source projects (many with Dan Lorence) including Tekton, Security Scorecards, and SLSA. Kim also sits on the boards of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and Open Source Security Foundation.

Nima leads the Alliance team at Gitlab responsible for partnerships with Hyper-scalers, Cloud Operators, Platform Providers and ISV Partners. His role encompasses strategy, recruitment and go to market success with a growing team of partners. He is a 20+ year veteran of the computer industry with various leadership roles at Google, Pivotal, VMware, Joyent, SixApart, Flickr, Deloitte, Sun Microsystems and Boeing. Nima is a graduate of Stanford, UC Berkeley and UCLA with degrees in Engineering and Business.

In this episode Nima Badiey shares his journey, career tips and tricks, and ultimately technical alliances leadership at its finest

What does Jimi Hendrix have to do with Immutable Kubernetes? Meet Andrew Rynhard the CTO of Sidero Labs, Sidero delivers a better way to run Kubernetes. Sidero is An open source platform that delivers immutability, declarative configuration, and APIs, at every layer.

In this interview sneak peek we learn more about Andrew's passion for Kernels, Immutable Kubernetes, Music, and Mixed Martial arts. Truly a unique and fascinating person!

This week on the POPCAST our Veterans Day Special with Jorge Castro, Community Manager @ Cloud Custodian | Stacklet.io | Mostly emeritus from Kubernetes. In this episode, one of the best Open Source Community Managers that has ever lived Jorge Castro. He talk's his journey and military service, OSS Community Management Tips, Early Kubernetes Community, Stacklet and Cloud Custodian

Podcaster, streamer, dreamer, meme-er Chloe is a Bay Area based Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. Previously, she worked at Sentry.io where she created the award winning Sentry Scouts program (a camp themed meet-up ft. patches, s’mores, giant squirrel costumes, and hot chocolate), and was featured in the Grace Hopper Conference 2018 gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org. Her projects and work with Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart 'astrology', and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. She prides herself on being a non-traditional background engineer, and is likely one of the only engineers who has played an ogre, crayon, and the back-end of a cow on a professional stage. She hopes to bring more artists into tech, and more engineers into the arts.

In this episode Chloe and i talk her Journey, Spite Driven Theater, Plays, The backstory behind her famous picture and Clippy!?? Microsoft's Incredible Cloud Advocate Chloe Condon starts now!

Once described as "an ancient and powerful open source dragon," Aeva Black is a dot-com veteran, an open source hacker, and a queer and non-binary geek. They work in the Azure Office of the CTO to improve the state of open source software supply chain security, and to support teams working on cloud security and digital privacy. Back in 2012, they launched OpenStack's Bare Metal Cloud program, enabling performance-sensitive cloud native workloads to run without a hypervisor.

Aeva currently serves on the Board of the Open Source Initiative, the non-profit which stewards the definition of "open source", and works within several other foundations including the Confidential Computing Consortium and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Aeva is a lifelong student of the buddha dharma and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights. They served for several years on the Board of the Consent Academy, a Seattle-area educational non-profit, and were recently published in Transcending, an anthology of trans buddhist authors.

In this episode we tackle their journey, their open source roots in various projects, software supply chain and so much more!

Lily Hay Newman is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, digital privacy, and hacking. She previously worked as a technology reporter at Slate magazine and was the staff writer for Future Tense, a publication and project of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Additionally her work has appeared in Gizmodo, Fast Company, IEEE Spectrum, and Popular Mechanics. She lives in New York City.

In this episode we dig deep into Lily's journey, Security in Open Source, and the finer things in life like our favorite NY pizza joints by the slice! Truly a pleasure to speak to Lily!

Welcome to our second annual POPCAST Kubecon 2021 NA Pre Show!

Our final day of the Kubecon Pre Show Special ends with a bang, GitLab's incredible Brendan O'Leary! GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and continuous integration and deployment pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc

In this episode we cover his journey as a sysadmin for a medical software company all the way to gitlab and its values and his current role as a Dev Evangelist as well as board member for the CNCF.. We cover the topic of devops as well as his new CFP tool

This episode would not be complete unless we talked about Maryland, crabs, crab cakes, and pit beef and Brendan delivers big. I absolutely adore Brendan, one of the best in our community.

Welcome to our second annual POPCAST Kubecon 2021 NA Pre Show!

Day 6 we have a CNCF ambassador and a Open Source Advocate at StormForge. He is Half Dev Advocate, Half Open Source Strategy, All People-Focused! StormForge optimizes the efficiency of your cloud-based applications through a process of rapid experimentation using machine learning.

In this episode we discuss his journey, his time at ticketmaster, Stormforge and Dungeons and Dragons??!!

Enjoy the episode folx!