Update those resumes and take a listen to Anna-Marie Gutierrez-Lee, the Director of Talent Acquisition at LogDNA. She’s passionate about mentoring recruiting teams and connecting talent to their dream careers while fostering a genuine and positive candidate experience. On this episode, we’re talking about how to recruit in a DevOps culture and why it’s so important to bring more underrepresented talent into tech.

2:45 Get to know AMG

3:56 What is DEIB?

7:13 What does DevOps mean to you?

9:15 How recruiting for a DevOps culture is different

11:30 What AMG looks for when recruiting for LogDNA

14:50 Burn out is real, especially as a woman in a male-dominated industry

18:00 The Great Resignation

22:11 Why isn't tech more diverse and how can we fix that?

28:16 Identifying your gaps

31:33 Combat group think with a diverse workforce

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Episode Summary: Is DevSecOps the answer to effective cloud migration? In this episode Liesse will talk to Josh Minthorne, Co-founder and Global Technology Director of Axcelinno. Axcelinno is an IT Technology Consultancy and Professional Services company that helps organizations define and implement their DevSecOps adoption and cloud migration. Liesse and Josh will talk about why the security landscape has made companies hesitant to move to the cloud and what they can do to migrate with confidence. 

About: Josh Minthorne, Co-founder and Global Technology Director of Axcelinno

Josh combines his passion for technology and innovation to help customers rapidly improve how they deliver value to their end-customers and redefine business models. Working with customers both large and small, across multiple industries, He has seen firsthand how technology can empower individuals, teams, and transform organizations.

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1:25: John Minthorne from Axcelinno discovers the need for automation and DevOps

4:25: Helping early adopters of DevOps and cloud migration

5:24: Axcelinno solves problems from a DevSecOps perspective and from a cloud perspective

9:50: How have trends in cloud adoption changed over the past two years?

13:00: The cost of a breach in remote environment

14:05: Cloud migration and DevOps adoption: do they go hand-in-hand?

15:55: Will organizations be able to compete without making operational changes?

18:20: Emphasis on security and DevSecOps: Let’s call out security

24:07: Sequential DevOps vs Concurrent DevOps: Make everyone accountable and boost collaboration

26:50: Tips for organizations early in their DevOps adoption 

27:50: Drawing a line from Formula 1 to DevSecOps

Episode Summary:  In this episode, we’re talking to Nick Durkin, Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness. Harness is the industry’s first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify your DevOps processes including CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, and more. Nick and I will discuss how to remove the most annoying parts of your job so that you can focus on what you do best and why AI and ML are the future of DevOps. 

About:  Nick Durkin: Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering at Harness

Nick Durkin has spent the last three years building Pre-Sales teams for Startups, Value Added Resellers (VARs), and Enterprise Sales Teams. He possesses over a decade of data center architecture knowledge combined with a wealth of certified training. Nick also owns over five years of Hadoop and Big Data experience, architecting systems and building big data applications for not only the Federal government, but also the world’s largest financial institutions. Nick has held the position of lead architect on the Department of Homeland Security’s FIVICS initiative, as well as developed many of the anti-fraud applications currently in use among the aforementioned financial institutions. Utilizing his successful history of innovative design involving data protection, fiscal responsibility and directive appreciation, Nick continues to develop purposeful solutions tailored to each of his client’s needs. 

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1:10 Nick’s introduction and background

3:00 What’s a Field CTO?

5:00 Start with why as a foundation

6:08 The problems that Harness solves. 

6:15 Using AI & ML to solve CI/CD

10:20 Why compliance is important for your customers

13:25 How the cost factor changes throughout the growth journey

16:25 Intersection of cost and observability data management

20:00 AI & ML: defining the often misused terms

24:54 Why Nick wouldn’t work at a company not using AI & ML

27:08 Is AI as far advanced as the public thinks it is?