From cosmonaut to literary critic Putting your foot in the door 02 A CURIOUS CHILD AN OUTSIDER 01 Continuously more complex systems ABSTRACTIONS 04 YOU’VE GOT THIS Why am I here? 03
ASPIRING COSMONAUT Decided my career at age 7. A STRING THEORY FAN In primary school, I had a crush on the Backstreet Boys and Richard Feynman. NGO WORKER …and a starving translator. FIRST PROGRAM ~ 1995 Thank you, Logo turtle and Mrs. teacher from CS class. STUDIED ENGLISH LITERATURE Astronomy was my original plan. IN TECH SINCE 2013 Wrote open source Ruby code for config management.
junior jobs “Are they paying me enough?” no connections gaps in knowledge constantly having to prove oneself THE BAD fuck the status quo “I don’t deserve the shitty software” the beginner’s mind mobility openness to change THE GOOD
impostor syndrome not being taken seriously misogyny, xenophobia, prejudice, stereotypes crying in the bathroom “You’d be a distraction if we hired you” insecurities insecurities insecurities insecurities THE UGLY
Full computers that we built systems from. Isolated processes without virtualization. Completely abstracting away the server. Virtual computers that can fit on a server. An orchestra of containers inside clusters. SERVERS CONTAINERS SERVERLESS VMs KUBERNETES
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