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episode 145: 145: Taylor Dolezal on the Importance of Community in Tech
In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Taylor Dolezal about the importance of community in tech.
Taylor specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud, and distributed systems, and currently serves as Head of Ecosystem at the CNCF.
In this episode we talk about:
- Taylor’s career origin story as a developer, systems engineer, and technology advocate working at places like Disney and Hashicorp.
- Taylor’s current work at the CNCF focsed on serving the Cloud Native end-user community, giving back through research & assets, and running events like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
- Importance of community in tech, including the challenges of building a community and how to get organizations to recognize the value.
Taylor Dolezal
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onlydole/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/onlydole
- CNCF Bio: https://www.cncf.io/people/staff/?p=taylor-dolezal
Mike Pfeiffer
- https://linktr.ee/mikepfeiffer