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Geeking Out with Adriana Villela

Geeking Out with Adriana Villela

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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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  • Geeking Out Live: Working Moms in Tech Panel with Rizel Scarlett, Autumn Nash, Cortney Nickerson, and Diana Todea

    Geeking Out Live: Working Moms in Tech Panel with Rizel Scarlett, Autumn Nash, Cortney Nickerson, and Diana Todea
    Jan 13 2026
    Key TakeawaysWe all experienced pregnancy differently, and it's okay to not love being pregnant while being in awe of the human being created inside of youTake some time off before you have your baby, because it just gets busy after thatMaternity leave varies from country. In Canada, you get 12-18 months. In Spain, you get 4 months, and in the US, you get 6 weeks. If you're lucky, you work at a company with good maternity leave benefits.Many of the mamas in this panel hustled HARD not only during pregnancy, but post-partumSleep deprivation as a new mom is REAL, and is a testament to the strength and resilience of being a momWe're not all lucky enough to have family and/or daycares(affordable or not) near us to help us raise our childrenRizel chose to worked part-time post-partum to stay sharp, yet she still balanced being present for her daughter during her time offCortney took her first child to work with her, to balance working and childcareBeing a role model to your children and teaching them to be self-sufficient is importantEncouraging boys and girls to hang out together from an early age, rather than separating them, helps break down gender stereotypes and barriersFor boy moms: it's important to a great role model as a mom of little boys, to teach them to be respectful of women as they grow olderAbout our guestsRizel ScarlettRizel Scarlett is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, Block's newest business unit. With a diverse background spanning GitHub, startups, and non-profit organizations, Rizèl has cultivated a passion for utilizing emerging technologies to champion equity within the tech industry. She moonlights as an Advisor at G{Code} House, an organization aimed at teaching women of color and non-binary people of color to code. Rizèl believes in leveraging vulnerability, honesty, and kindness as means to educate early-career developers.Find our Rizel on:Twitter (X)LinkedInTwitchWebsiteAutumn NashAutumn Nash is a Product Manager at Microsoft specializing in Linux Security previously over four years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Software Development Engineer, I currently contribute to the Language and Runtimes team, specializing in the development and release of Amazon Corretto (Java) while actively engaging in the OpenJDK community. Prior to this, Autumn's role as a NoSQL Solutions Architect involved guiding organizations in selecting purpose-built NoSQL databases, utilizing Python and Java to unblock customers and contribute to educational content. In addition to her technical expertise in solutions engineering, back-end web development, and cloud computing, Autumn is proud to be a mom, bringing a unique perspective to the tech industry. She is also an alumni member of Rewriting the Code, further enriching her commitment to effective communication and education. Serving as the Board Chair of Education at MilSpouse Coders and as a Chapter Leader for the Greater Seattle Area, her advocacy for collaborative learning and community development extends beyond technology.Find Autumn on:LinkedInBlueskyCortney NickersonCortney is Head of Community at Nirmata. As a CNCF and Civo Ambassador, she helps co-organize the CNCF Bilbao Community, various Kubernetes Community Day events, and KubeJam. Additionally, she is a recognized voice in the cloud native space. Initially, a non-techie, she turned techie as employee 7 at a startup acquired by DataDog while writing content for the Data on Kubernetes Community. When not talking tech, you can find her talking DEl, sharing about her struggle with imposter syndrome, and trying to wrestle her kids to bed at a normal time.Find Cortney on:BlueskyLinkedInXDiana TodeaDiana is a Developer Experience Engineer at VictoriaMetrics. She has worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Observability. She is an active member of the OpenTelemetry CNCF open source project, co-organizer of Cloud Native Days Romania, co-lead of neurodiversity working group (part of CNCF initiative merge-forward) and supports underrepresented groups in tech.Find Diana on:LinkedInGitHubFind Geeking Out onAll of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillelaShow NotesRizel on Geeking OutAutumn on Geeking OutCortney on Geeking Out
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    1 ora e 7 min
  • The One Where We Geek Out on Saying, "I don't know" with Cortney Nickerson

    The One Where We Geek Out on Saying, "I don't know" with Cortney Nickerson
    Dec 2 2025
    Key takeaways:Humans are delightfully malleable! As a right-handed person being taught sports by a left-handed person, Cortney learned to play many sports left-handed!Devs who shifted into the ops space have a unique perspective because they have done it all - not just the dev work, but also the ops work.QAs bridge the gap for Dev and Ops, because they have had to make everybody communicate with each other and they feel everybody's pain.Admitting that you don't have all the answers and asking for help is a superpower, as it "liberates" others around you to ask questions.Being unafraid to ask questions and ask for clarifications is how Cortney was able to level up in tech, in spite of not having a technical background.People are willing to help you if you're willing to put in the effort and if you show them that you've been trying.The fact that tech constantly changes means that we have new opportunities to learn and gain expertise in new areas.When we're in the midst of feeling like we're not doing enough, sometimes we need others to remind us that yes, we ARE.We tend to be incredibly hard on ourselves. There are other people who see the effort that we make, and they appreciate what it is that we get done.Tech moves so quickly that whether you take a break for 6 weeks or 1 year, by the time you get back, things have changed.When you're raising a child and working, having a partner, spouse, or someone else you can lean on for support makes a huge difference. Support can be physical or emotional.We need to have conversations to normalize support for working moms.Once we have kids, people ask how our kids are doing, but now how we're doing. And yet, our kids' wellbeing depends on our wellbeing.Context is queen. We assume that people hold it together because they're just that good, but it reality, we don't realize that they have a whole village of people helping them out.About our guest:Cortney is Head of Community at Nirmata. As a CNCF and Civo Ambassador, she helps co-organize the CNCF Bilbao Community, various Kubernetes Community Day events, and KubeJam. Additionally, she is a recognized voice in the cloud native space. Initially, a non-techie, she turned techie as employee 7 at a startup acquired by DataDog while writing content for the Data on Kubernetes Community. When not talking tech, you can find her talking DEl, sharing about her struggle with imposter syndrome, and trying to wrestle her kids to bed at a normal time.Find our guest on:BlueskyLinkedInXFind us on:All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillelaShow notes:MySpaceDial-up modemAltaVista (search engine)Ask Jeeves (search engine)Dial-up modem soundsMonokle“We love YAML so you don’t have to”Cortney’s KubeCon China 2025 keynoteDewey Decimal SystemData on Kubernetes CommunityKyverno projectTranscript:ADRIANA:Hey everyone, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast, in which we dive into the career journeys of some of the amazing humans in tech and geek out on topics like software development, DevOps, observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada.ADRIANA:And geeking out with me today, I have Cortney Nickerson. Welcome, Cortney.CORTNEY:I thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.ADRIANA:I'm excited to have you. It. You know, when when I was looking at guests to bring on for the next season, I'm like, how have I not had Courtney on yet?CORTNEY:Yes. Actually, I think you said to me you should be on my podcast. Again. That was what you said to me. We where were we? We were... we were at Rejekts. I think at the last KubeCon.ADRIANA:Oh yeah, Rejekts, that’s right. CORTNEY:You should be on my podcast again. And I was like, I haven't been on it. And you're like, wait, what? Wait. How's this possible? And I was like, I don't know. But I've seen like every episode. I've, I feel like I've been on it, but I haven’t been.ADRIANA:And finally we made it happen. Yay!CORTNEY:Yes we did.ADRIANA:So. And where are you calling from today?CORTNEY:Today I'm calling from Farmington, New Mexico. I spend most of my life in, in Spain, just outside of San Sebastian, in the Basque Country. But I am home visiting my, my parents in, in New Mexico today, so. Yeah.ADRIANA:We'll we're going to start with, lightning round questions or. Icebreaker, or, whatever. I, I used to call them lightning round, but sometimes they're fast, sometimes they're not. So... icbreaker.CORTNEY:Yeah. Yeah.ADRIANA:Well, let the wind blow as it may. CORTNEY:At your own pace questions.ADRIANA:Yes, at your own pace questions. I like that okay. First question. Are you left handed or right handed?CORTNEY:Oh. Good question. Writing right handed. But batting in in softball. Left handed.ADRIANA:No way. That's so cool. CORTNEY:Yeah, yeah. ADRIANA:Does it throw people off? Like when you're batting left handed because, I mean, there's so ...
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    1 ora e 14 min
  • The One Where We Geek Out on the Power of Invisibility with Deana Solis

    The One Where We Geek Out on the Power of Invisibility with Deana Solis
    Nov 18 2025
    Key takeaways:It's important for junior folks to have a breadth of experience early in their careers to understand what they like and don't like, and to help shape what they want to do in their tech careers.Developers can't work in isolation and not care about the "big picture" of the product or service that they're working on. That's like moving to a new country and not caring about the cultural differences.Being invisible is a superpower, because it allows you to quietly learn, observe, and take things in.Being a quiet listener shouldn't be confounded with not speaking up due to shyness.It's important to use your voice to speak up and provide a safe place for others to speak upWe get into tech through different ways, have different skills, and different experiences, and these differences are what make for a successful team.There's not one way to succeed and make an impact in tech (and other professions), whether you're in upper management, an engineer, or anything in-between.As a senior person, you can also learn a lot from junior engineers and mid-level engineers, bringing in a different point of viewMentoring is about helping your mentees find their own strengths, and also learning from your mentees, as they always have something interesting to bring to the table.If you're going to be a manager, you've got to be really understanding of what your organization's strategic direction is, what its vision is, what its values truly are, and decide are you aligned enough to be able to represent that as a manager?University is a humbling experience of suddenly being surrounded by way smarter people than youThere are different skills to being a student vs being an employeeThere is a distinction between FinOps for the Cloud and "traditional" FinOps!Someone who works in FinOps (within the context of Cloud) has an understanding of how cloud vendors work and how things like workload, retention policies, autoscaling thresholds, etc. affect your cloud spend.About our guest:Deana Solis is the youngest daughter of Filipino immigrants and the mom of a biracial son. She credits her decades long career in tech for teaching her how to unplug from the grid in meaningful ways, connect with her ancestors, build community where she lives, and leave places better than she found them.She is a FinOps Foundation ambassador and mentor, known for her contributions in workgroups, certification curriculum, and humanizing FinOps talks.Find our guest on:LinkedInBlueskyFind us on:All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingoutAll of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillelaShow notes:Carmen Huidobro on Geeking Out, talking about reframing nervousnessIxchel Ruiz on Geeking Out, talking about the importance of seeing people like us being representedAicha Laafia on Geeking Out (she was directly inspired by Ixchel Ruiz's talks)Charity Majors on Geeking OutKelsey Hightower on Geeking OutLiz Fong-Jones on Geeking OutWhat is FinOps?FP&AComptrollerTranscript:ADRIANA:Hey everyone, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast in which we dive into the career journeys of some of the amazing humans in tech and geek out on topics like software development, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada.ADRIANA:And geeking out with me today I have Deana Solis. Welcome, Deana!DEANA:Thank you. Happy to be here.ADRIANA:And where are you calling from?DEANA:I'm in Vancouver, Washington.ADRIANA:Oh, cool. That's awesome. So before, before I introed you in, we were talking about pronouncing names, and, I thought it was interesting, so I wanted to bring it up on the podcast because I thought your name was pronounced “De-anna”, but it's actually “Dean-a”. And tell the story behind that, because I thought it was kind of cool.DEANA:You know, I have always blamed this on my dad because I knew the story. They were Rat Pack fans, and Dean Martin, was a favorite. My dad was a big audiophile. We had his records, so I just blamed him. It turns out that my mom was the big Dean Martin fan. She picked the name, and had I been a boy, I would have been Dean. But I wasn’t. So Deana.ADRIANA:That is so cool. I love that that's such a great name origin story.DEANA:But considering my last name and you pronounced that exactly correctly, it's perfectly acceptable to expect to pronounce it Deanna or Deanna, with all the syllables. But it's not. So.ADRIANA:Yeah. Fair, fair. Well, I mean, I think it's a it's a really great way to remember, though, in, in terms of pronouncing your name like, oh, I always think of like the Dean Martin reference. That's awesome. Well, so are you ready for our icebreaker questions?DEANA:Yes.ADRIANA:AV: Okay. First question. Are you a lefty or a righty?DEANA:Lefty.ADRIANA:Yeah, I always get... you... if you watch the show, you know, I always get excited about lefties. Were you ever, did anyone ever try to force you, to write right handed when you ...
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    1 ora e 2 min
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