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The One Where We Geek Out on Asking Why with Helen Shen
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About our guest:
Helen Shen is a lifelong learner who believes in balancing strategic and tactical IT solutions to maximum value delivery and time to market without jeopardizing long term growth and scalability. She is a technology leader with finance domain knowledge in retail banking, capital markets, and wealth management. She's been responsible of major IT development initiatives over $1M, and has successfully modernized applications from monolithic architectures to API architecture, and has worked on migrating on-premise assets to the cloud.
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Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
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 geeking out with me today I have Helen Shen. Welcome, Helen.
HELEN: Hi everyone. Hi everyone.
ADRIANA: Hey, it's so nice to have you on the show. Now, first things first, where are you calling from?
HELEN: I'm calling from a small town outside of Ottawa. It's called Carlton Place.
ADRIANA: Awesome. Yay. Another Canadian. Cool. Well, we're gonna get started with some lightning round questions before we get into the meaty bits. So are you ready? All right, let's do this. Okay, first question: are you left handed or right handed?
HELEN: Right handed.
ADRIANA: All right. iPhone or Android?
HELEN: iPhone.
ADRIANA: Mac, Linux or windows?
HELEN: Mac, Linux and windows.
ADRIANA: Ooh, all of them. Awesome. I love it. What's your favorite programming language?
HELEN: Java.
ADRIANA: Awesome. Dev or ops?
HELEN: DevOps.
ADRIANA: Awesome.
ADRIANA: I've had a few people who have
ADRIANA: answered DevOps as well, so I love it, I love it. No wrong answers either way. Okay. JSON or YAML?
HELEN: JSON.
ADRIANA: Ooh, I think, I think you might be one of the few on camp JSON so far. I should, I need to do a poll.
HELEN: At some point I started embracing YAML. Well, but that space got me.
ADRIANA: Oh yeah, yeah, I know. I've definitely gotten burned too many times by the, by the indentation on YAML.
HELEN: At the beginning stage, the learning of troubleshooting, whole night with my espresso and then figure out it's a space.
ADRIANA: Yeah, I know, right? Yeah. It's like why do you hate me so much? I feel ya. Okay, two more questions left. Do you prefer to consume content through video or text?
HELEN: Text.
ADRIANA: Alright. And finally, what is your superpower?
HELEN: My superpower is make everyone else to have superpower.
ADRIANA: Ooh, I like that. That's very meta. Amazing. Amazing. Well, thanks so much for doing the lightning round questions. Now it's time to get into the meaty bits. So I'm very excited for this conversation because, you know, we had our pre chat a couple weeks ago and I feel like the ideas just started flowing on this and so I'm very, I'm very stoked for our topic of discussion. So I think when we were chat