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Geeking Out with Adriana Villela

Geeking Out with Adriana Villela

Di: Adriana Villela Hannah Maxwell
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The podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between.2023 Geeking Out Podcast
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  • The One Where We Geek Out on the Power of Mentorship with Victoria Nduka

    The One Where We Geek Out on the Power of Mentorship with Victoria Nduka
    Oct 13 2026
    Victoria Nduka wanted to get into tech, but she didn't have a laptop. So what did she do? She made money as a writer, saved up enough to get a laptop, and took a bunch of UX design courses. And when Victoria stumbled into open source by way of a video posted to a friend's WhatApp status. This took her down the path of getting a coveted Linux Foundation (LFX) mentorship, and finding ways to apply her skills as a writer, UX designer and all around Curious Human to contribute to OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Meshery. Join Adriana as she talks to Victoria about her undying curiosity and her surprise love for cloud native.About Victoria Nduka:Victoria Nduka is a user experience designer who’s passionate about making technology more inclusive and accessible. She recently wrapped up an LFX mentorship where she conducted UX research to understand how users expect Prometheus to handle OpenTelemetry resource attributes.Victoria writes and speaks about accessibility, open source, design, and more recently, cloud native technologies.Key takeaways:Not being accepted as an LFX mentee for Meshery didn't stop Victoria from contributing to the projectThe work that she did as an OSS contributor in Meshery got her into Outreachy, and eventually led to an LFX mentorship in the Prometheus projectAs an LFX mentee working on Prometheus, she got to interface with the OpenTelemetry communityExpanding the OTel End User SIG from 3 regular contributors to 6 took a lot of time and effort, through steady contribution and content creationOpen source is only possible because of the people contributing; who are willing to put in the timeVictoria continued contributing to OpenTelemetry even after her LFX mentorship was done, and has become one of the key contributors to the End User SIG.Working with people who look like us is important!!Tech accessibility: not having a laptop prevented Victoria from getting into tech for the longest timeDoing freelance writing helped Victoria save enough money to buy a laptop to finally get into tech.How can you be expected to figure the course of your entire life out when you're young? Trying out new things is the only way to know what we like and don't like.Contributing to open source: look for areas that need help, with the skills that you haveFind Victoria on:LinkedInX (Twitter)Find us on:All of our social channels are on bio.site/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on adrianavillela.com/socialsLinks:LFX MentorshipOpenTelemetry End User SIGOutreachy (internship program)Juraci Paixão Kröhling on Geeking Out talking about OutreachyEromosele Akhigbe on Geeking Out talking about OutreachyMeshery (CNCF project)Prometheus (CNCF project)Memorisely (platform for learning product design)OTel Me... co-hosted by VictoriaOTel Collector follow-up surveyThe Importance of GitHub Stars (blog post)IHS TowersChapters:00:00 Opening credits00:26 Guest intro01:34 Icebreaker questions04:01 LFX Mentorship06:41 How being an LFX mentee in Prometheus led to the OTel End User SIG12:21 Victoria's tech career journey21:48 Contributing to the OTel End User SIG24:29 The ups and downs of being a writer26:53 Contributing to Meshery29:59 Outside of open source, what's your day job?31:49 Parting words of wisdom33:20 Peace out and geek out
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    34 min
  • Geeking Out LIVE: The One Where We Geek Out on the Generational AI Divide

    Geeking Out LIVE: The One Where We Geek Out on the Generational AI Divide
    Sep 8 2026
    We've heard from GenX-ers and Millennials talking about their views on AI-assisted software development. We've heard separately from GenZ-ers. But we haven't had all three perspectives in the same room together...until now. What advice do GenX-ers and Millennials have for GenZ-ers in the age of AI-assisted coding, and vice-versa? Find out, as we bring back some of our former panelists, Tim Banks (GenX), and Cassidy Williams (Millennial), and Divyasha Pahuja (GenZ) to talk about how all 3 generations can help each other in our new AI reality.Key TakeawaysEveryone wants to join the AI bandwagon because of FOMO...but should they?AI skeptics are being treated as Luddites, which is an unfair assessmentAI helps us build things faster, and helps us get through our otherwise unattended personal projectsBeing a developer in the agentic era means being a manager of agents (less building - more monitoring and observing what's being produced by AI agents)Domain knowledge is more appreciated as a developer in the AI eraHaving base knowledge (first principles) is helpful when it comes to troubleshooting/problem solvingJust as we did with Google, asking "the right questions" and being able to phrase them effectively is extremely helpful for using AI for problem solving/learning conceptsGenZ doesn't want to be robbed of the experience of troubleshooting.Learning from failure is the best way to learn, and because of AI, GenZ is given more room to fail fast.One of the side-effects of the AI era is that many folks are unable to handle pushbacks because they're used to AI saying that they're smart.Advantages of AI: "Everything feels possible", and AI lets you create content tailored to different learning styles (e.g. neurodivergent kids)“Brolulu” - AI has validated a lot of delusionsAbout our guestsCassidy WilliamsCassidy is the Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub! Outside of that fancy title, Cassidy is a startup advisor and investor, open source-er, and meme-maker on the internet. She enjoys building mechanical keyboards, playing music, hanging out with family and friends, and teaching in her free time.Find Cassidy on:LinkedInBlueskyGitHubBlogNewsletterTim Banks (they/them)Tim’s tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started in avionics in the US Marine Corps and then into various government contracting roles. After moving to the private sector, Tim worked both in large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations for large cloud-based datastores.Today, Tim leverages their years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with the open source and cloud computing communities in his current role. Tim is also a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. They are the 2-time American National and is the 5-time Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in their division.Find Tim on:LinkedInBlueskyInstagramDivyasha PahujaDivyasha Pahuja is a GenZ AI engineer, multimodal ML researcher, and four-time peer-reviewed author at ACM/IEEE and Springer — someone whose career started before ChatGPT shipped and accelerated alongside it. She's had quite a journey: software engineer (back when LLMs weren't a household phrase), then back to school, then ML researcher, and now sitting at the cusp of both as an AI engineer.Off the keyboard, she's spent the last few years with Feeding India leading a digital campaign team, distributing meals, and building recurring partnerships with local NGOs and old age homes.Outside of all that, she loves playing badminton, is a self-admitted sore loser, has a soft spot for cats, coffee shops and Netflix because who doesn't, and is just starting an AI community at @un__prompted — say hi if you want to be there early.Find Divyasha on:LinkedInFind Geeking Out onAll of our social channels are on bio.site/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on adrianavillela.com/socialsChapters00:08 Intro01:11 Guest intros03:30 The demo curse06:18 Live demos at really large tech conferences09:30 Tape backups & zip drives14:27 What scares you most about AI?16:59 People don't know how to have arguments anymore23:26 Dev work has turned into AI babysitter25:30 Do you mourn the loss of hand coding?31:20 Use AI to augment34:17 GenZ doesn't want to lose the problem solving muscle memory45:03 What do you need from other generations to help you navigate the AI world?50:29 Flattening organizations to restructure for the AI world52:29 Delusions validated by AI ("brolulu")55:52 What excites you about AI?57:27 Do we have a reason to fear Skynet?59:58 Wrap-upShow NotesGeeking Out Live: The One Where We Geek Out on Vibing Like It's 1999, Coding Like It's 2026Geeking Out Live: The One Where We Geek Out on Slaying the VibesThe Devil Was Never in the Details: Code, AI, and the Rise of the Deep Generalist (Tim Banks, Commit Your Code 2026)...
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    1 ora e 1 min
  • The One Where We Geek Out on Linux with Justin Garrison

    The One Where We Geek Out on Linux with Justin Garrison
    Aug 11 2026
    Justin Garrison wasn't one of those kids who grew up in tech. In fact, he loved cars and wanted to fix cars for a living. He didn't own his own computer until university, and literally didn't know what to do with one once he got one. But then he took a job at university fixing computers, and that's when was exposed to Linux. After that, he was hooked. Since then, his career has been fueled by curiosity, a willingness to learn in public, and a love for technology. Join Adriana as she talks to Justin about his career, what inspires his fun tech content, and more. About Justin Garrison: Justin serves as Head of Product at Sidero Labs and hosts the Fork Around and Find Out podcast. He has been called the Steven Spielberg of Cloud Native and the Bill Nye of tech. His career includes contributions to Oscar-winning films, the Disney+ streaming platform, and Amazon EKS. In his free time, Justin enjoys building modern-retro computers and watching Moana. Key takeaways: In the early 2000s, being online was a choice. Nowadays, the tables have turned, and being OFFLINE is a choice.Being forced to be offline makes you realize how much you rely on technology not just on a day-to-day basis, but on a minute-to-minute basis.The realization that there was a whole tech world out there with "free tools" empowered Justin to learn as much as he could.Boring tasks are the best excuse for automation.The things that we do throughout our lives prepare us for where we need to be now.Learning in public led Justin to his job as a Linux sysadminAlmost everything in technology has some physical analogy.Inspired by Bill Nye the Science Guy and Elton Brown, Justin comes in with the mindset of "how can I make this entertaining", when creating tech content.Making short videos forced Justin to really focus on the important takeaway in the content he was developing.The hardest part for a lot of people to learn advanced topics is forgetting the things they already understand.Networking at conferences is a powerful tool which helped Justin go from his university sysadmin job, to working at Disney Animation. Find Justin on: BlueskyYouTubeGitHubLinkedInRedditPodcast Find us on: All of our social channels are on bio.site/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on adrianavillela.com/socials Links: Palm PrewebOSAOL Instant Messenger (AIM)Trillium (software)Pidgin (software)ICQ (instant messaging)Business Wars: The AOL Time Warner DisasterRogers Outage in Toronto in 2022Knoppix Linux DistributionFASFA (US federal student aid)Windows CEXenServerTiVoContainers from the Couch (livestream)Infrastructure for Entertainment (KubeCon 2020 - Justin Garrison)Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)Cloud Native Infrastructure (book)Talos Linux Chapters: 00:00 Opening credits 00:26 Guest intro 03:22 Lefty or righty? 06:07 iPhone or Android? 12:38 Being "accidentally offline" for a business trip 17:30 Mac, Linux, or Windows? 20:48 From zero to Linux hero? 23:25 The least offensive major 29:12 Programming == manual work avoidance 33:29 Becoming a Linux sysadmin 36:25 Making tech content relatable and fun 41:30 Everything we learn is a lie 47:20 Working at Disney 54:31 From Disney Animation to Disney+ 58:00 Being a Cloud Native Ambassador 01:01:00 From big enterprise, to small startup 01:10:11 Final words of wisdom 01:13:10 Peace out and geek out
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    1 ora e 14 min
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