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The One Where We Geek Out on Being a Sysadmin with Renata Rocha of Slalom Build
Description
About our guest:
Renata Rocha has been working with technology since 1997, first as a sysadmin. She then found her passion for Cloud Engineering and never looked back. She has been at Slalom since 2019 and loves everything about the Cloud, Platform Engineering, and the endless possibilities it brings us.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- Adriana’s X (Twitter)
- Adriana’s Mastodon
- Adriana’s LinkedIn
- Adriana’s Instagram
- Adriana’s Bluesky
Show Links:
- International Lefty Day
- NoYAML.com
- HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)
- Python (programming language)
- HashiCorp (Hashi)
- HashiCorp Terraform
- HashiCorp Nomad
- Sysadmin Appreciation Day
- Mainframe
- Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
- COBOL
- Job Control Language (JCL)
- Platform Engineering
- Serverless
- Data center
- Cyberpunk
- Shopify
- Bell
- Central Office (Telecom)
- Jacarepaguá (Rio de Janeiro)
- Rotary dial
- How to use a rotary dial phone
- Digital transformation
- ADHD hyper-focus
- Pomodoro Technique
- Pomodoro Timer
Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, y'all. Welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, Reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And today geeking out with me, I have Renata Rocha. Welcome, Renata!
RENATA: Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Renata Rocha. I'm a principal of Cloud DevOps security, actually. Platform engineering with Slalom Build. I have been at Slalom since 2019. I love my job, I love what I do, and I love technology.
ADRIANA: Awesome. And where are you calling in from today?
RENATA: I am based off Toronto, Canada. Like Adriana. Okay. Yeah.
ADRIANA: Awe