Today’s guest on Cloud Gossip is Matt Stratton! Matt is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences We’re going to learn about his return to in person conferences after the pandemic, his first impressions, and what he thinks about virtual conferences. Matt is going to explain how not being able to see people in person for long periods of time has changed some of the friendship dynamics in the community. We’re going to learn what his average day looks like and we’ll better understand his role and responsibilities at Pulumi, and and understand how that system works and differs from Chef. As always we’ll ask him our favourite questions from our recurring segments and hear is takes on the future of tech, diversity and inclusion, sci-fi tech, community and ways to lift others up. Enjoy the episode and don’t miss the links and resources mentioned in the episode, you can find them at the bottom of the page.
Guest Bio:
Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide.
He’s passionate about helping organizations use awesome tools to focus on what makes them special and drive relevant cultural change. He truly believe that DevOps can revolutionize IT, or at least make it more fun to go to work.
Matt lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. Matt is the keeper of the Thought Leaderboard for the DevOps Party Games online game show and you can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.
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“Things that are meant for machines have them be for machines. Json is not supposed to be read by humans or much less written by humans.”
-Matt Stratton -
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