The Geek Whisperers work every day with enterprise IT professionals. In Season 2 of the show, the grew centers on talking about careers: particularly about the career success of high tech leaders who have navigated the nonlinear career path. Listen, enjoy and please be sure to share. Join John Troyer, Amy Lewis, and Matthew Brender as they share their experiences, stories, and what's worked for them as they do their daily jobs as Geek Whisperers.
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A Cross Section of Academic and Enterprise IT with Andy Warfield – Ep 80
The Geek Whisperers have the pleasure to talk a little tech with Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO of Coho Data. He has a story of academics, startups, open source, enterprise IT and work/life balance.
What path is right for you? How is your career effected by academic pursuits?
We have more open conversation than conclusion. Here are some of the topics:
- From University to startup
- Learning from a ton of mistakes
- Starting XenSource and the Xen hypervisor
- Being a Professor at University of Vancouver British Columbia
- The difficulty of seeing what you fixed (not just what is left to do)
- Andy’s research (full list here)
- Book smarts vs street smart in IT
- Going back and forth between Academics and Enterprise IT
- The continued innovation coming from each
- To open source or not in academia
- The challenge of creating code for production
- Being part of the marketing strategy
- The gravitational pull to challenging problems
- John and Matt sign up to be Andy’s student next year, building the future of type-safe multi-dimensional key/value stores
You can follow Andy on Twitter and read some of his more recent work on Coho Data’s blog.