With the growing demand for developers, the IT industry is tasked with bringing more workers into the field. Stereotypes and ignorance are a major blocker to this initiative. Annie speaks about her journey into technology (from a background in film and art) by learning the InSpec framework, and how she attained the skills necessary to become a cloud automation engineer.  Annie’s aim is always to make the right thing to do the easy thing to do.About our host:Laura Edell Chief Data Scientist, AI Markets & Innovation @ Microsoft https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauraerinedell/About our guest: Annie HedgpethTest Infrastructure Engineer at HashiCorp https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-hedgpeth/The Data Standardhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-standard/https://datastandard.io/