Ardan Labs Podcast Bill Kennedy

Mark Thompson is a senior developer relations engineer at Google. Mark has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge with younger engineers. We hear about his experience growing up in Chicago, overcoming adversity & peer pressure, navigating the job market, interviewing at Google, and much more!

Connect with Mark:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marktechson
Website: https://marktechson.com
Email List: http://marktechson.dev/welcome

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Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Ken Wimberly is the founder of the Legacy of Love app, a parent-to-child journaling app designed to capture the moments that matter. Ken speaks about the challenges of building and growing an app as a non-technical founder, his entrepreneurial endeavors as the owner of a pizza place, in commercial real estate, and opening a chain of laundromats.

Connect with Ken:
Email: ken@legacyoflove.app
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lordwimberly

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Legacy of Love: https://legacyjournal.app/
LaundryLuv: https://www.laundryluv.com/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs 

Cathleen Turner is a senior software engineer at Perch and founder of Czero Grocery & CZero Foods (formerly listful.ai). We hear about how she first was introduced to programming through her studies of environmental science & oceanography. After realizing environmental consulting was not for her, Cathleen dove in head first to programming. We talk about coding bootcamps, working with startups, being a woman minority in tech, and more!

Connect with Cathleen:
Email: cat@listful.ai
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_cat_turner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathleenturner/
CZero Foods: https://twitter.com/czerofoods

Mentioned in today’s episode:
MatLab: https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html
LaunchCode: https://www.launchcode.org/
Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!
Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Ville Aikas is the founder of the supply chain security startup, Chainguard. We learn about foreign exchange student programs, early internet operating systems, working at Google, and working on projects like Kubernetes / Knative. 
 Connect with Ville:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AikasVille
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/villeaikas/
Email: vaikas@chainguard.dev
Chainguard: https://chainguard.dev/

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/
History of Google Voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice#History
History of Kubernetes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes#History
Knative: https://knative.dev/
VMware: https://www.vmware.com/
Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!
Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Joonas Bergius is currently a co-founder at Statype and an early employee of Digital Ocean. We talk about the experience of attending multiple schools in different countries, military service, technology consulting, containers, Kubernetes, and advice for technical entrepreneurs. 

Connect with Joonas:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joonas
GitHub: https://github.com/joonas
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/
VMware: https://www.vmware.com/
Heptio: https://github.com/heptio
Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!
Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alp
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alp
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs

Ishuah Kariuki is a software engineer at Microsoft. We talk about what it was like growing up in Kenya, the struggle of learning about computers with limited access to them, changing jobs as a means for career advancement, and more.

Connect with Ishuah:
Website: https://ishuah.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ishuah_
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishuah/

Mentioned in today’s episode:
Microsoft Expanding in Africa: https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/features/furthering-our-investment-in-africa-microsoft-opens-first-africa-development-centre-in-kenya-and-nigeria/
Windows 3.0: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_3.0
Radio Africa Group: https://radioafricagroup.co.ke/
BRCK: https://brck.com/

Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!

Online Courses: https://ardanlabs.com/education/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alp
Live Events: https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/?utm_source=YTpodcast&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=alp
Blog: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog
Github: https://github.com/ardanlabs