Cloud Native Rejekts Podcast

In this Rejekts Podcast episode Vincent Batts and Mark Coleman are joined by Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb. Charity talks about her first systems engineering experience at Linden lab’s Second Life, goes back to her childhood and how that got her to who she is today. She ponders on her motivation to do things, and shares how managing her ADHD affects her professional as well as personal life. And of course, much more!

In this Rejekts podcast episode, hosts Mark Coleman and Vincent Batts welcome Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS. Alex shares his journey, from breaking the family computer to founding OpenFaaS. He talks about how and why he focuses on person-experience in his work and elaborates on the importance of understanding and removing friction for a smooth user experience. He touches on his process of dealing and going past rejection in his professional as well as his personal life, and much more.

Hosts Vincent Batts and Mark Coleman talk to Matt Klein, Software Engineer at Lyft and creator of Envoy. Matt talks about his experience of creating and leading an open source project, touches on how to achieve a net positive outcome in the Open Source industry and gives some valuable career advice.

Mark Coleman and Vincent Batts talk to Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent. Liz goes back to her beginnings of working with computers to becoming the queen of the geeks. She takes us behind the scenes of her career as a Chair of the Technical Oversight Committee at the CNCF and dives into her process of making career decisions. Ending with the podcast trademark - unpopular predictions for 2021.

If you enjoyed this teaser, make sure to tune in next week and listen to the entire episode of Rejekts Podcast episode with Liz Rice.