Dan Acristinii - "Programming for Managers" to lead DevOps

On Path

English - October 09, 2020 07:18 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
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Dan is a Lead DevOps engineer at the pharma giant Roche. Previously he was a cybersecurity analyst at EY, Head of R&D at a blockchain startup, and did DevOps at Swisscom. We talk about his career and life path: from business school to a coding role, in a journey that's taken him through Moldova, Italy, the Netherlands, and now Switzerland.

Here are some relevant links from the conversation:
Dan's TechTalk with a drone demo
DevOps Cafe podcast
Kubernetes on Wikipedia
DevOps on Wikipedia
Show notes:
1:06 Dan's drone demo
3:54 What is DevOps?
6:34 Automation is not the core purpose of DevOps
7:07 Growing up in Moldova
8:32 Being a competitive candidate on the job market
9:07 "Programming for Managers" course
14:58 Dan's career path so far
17:21 Hackathon at EY
19:27 What keeps Dan in DevOps?
21:03 Kubernetes Slack group
21:48 DevOps Cafe podcast
23:25 Influential people in Dan's life
24:38 A new interest
25:28 Conquering a fear
26:21 Dan's ideal day