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The One Where We Geek Out on Owning the Stage with Lian Li
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About our guest:
Lian (she/they) is a Developer Advocate and community organizer, probably best known for creating Kuberoke, the first and only Kubernetes Karaoke Community. Earlier in her career, Lian worked as a community manager and quality manager for various browser games. In recent years, she moved into the Cloud Native space, working as a Cloud Native Engineer, and then as an Engineering Manager. In October 2021, she turned her passion for community and developer happiness into a profession, by breaking into Developer Advocacy for Developer Tools. Lian is also an active member in various communities, including being part of the organization teams of DevOpsDays and ServerlessDays Amsterdam, as well as the ServerlessDays core team. In 2023, she was elected Technical Lead for the CNCF Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Cloud Native App Delivery, focused on outreach and enabling new members for the TAG.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show notes:
- KubeHuddle 2024
- KubeHuddle on YouTube
- YAML is a superset of JSON
- TAG App Delivery group on CNCF Slack
- Join CNCF Slack here
- Kuberoke
- DevOps Days Amsterdam 2024
- KCD Munich 2024
- Office Space (Movie - 1999)
- JSConf Asia
- What is an unconference?
Additional notes:
- Lian at KubeCon EU 2024
- Lian at the Beyond Coding podcast
- Lian at the KubeHuddle Mental Health panel (Geeking Out Episode 28)
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. Geeking out with me today is Lian Li. Welcome.
LIAN: Hi. Thanks for having me.
ADRIANA: I'm so excited to have you on. And we are actually recording at KubeHuddle today.
LIAN: Yay.
ADRIANA: Yay. So very exciting. So we are actually both in Toronto. So as we...before we get started into the meaty bits, I always like to start off with my guests answering some lightning round questions. So are you a lefty or a righty?
LIAN: Righty.
ADRIANA: Do you prefer iPhone or Android?
LIAN: I have an iPhone. I prefer...it's more practical.
ADRIANA: Fair enough, fair enough. It's funny, some guests are like, no, this is it. Like, I am staunchly in favor of this or the