The One Where We Geek Out on Transitioning into Tech with Julia Furst Morgado

About our guest:

Julia Furst Morgado is a Global Technologist on the Product Strategy team Office of the CTO at Veeam Software. Her passion is making Cloud Native technologies and DevOps best practices easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as an AWS Community Builder, a CNCF Ambassador, a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, a Civo Ambassador and Girl Code Ambassador. Additionally, she organizes the KCD NY, further fostering collaboration and learning opportunities. 

Find our guest on:

• Twitter (X)
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• GitHub (Julia's talks)

Find us on:

• All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
• All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela

Show notes:

• KCD New York 2024
• The Julia programming language
• KubeHuddle
• Marino Wijay (KubeHuddle organizer) on Geeking Out
• AWS Community Builders
• CNCF Ambassadors
• AWS Community Days
• Veeam Backup
• Tim Banks on Geeking Out (Mental Health)
• KubeHuddle Mental Health Panel
• Michael Cade
• Amanda Brock on Geeking Out
• Open Source Summit North America 2024
• Edith Puclla on Geeking Out
• The Happiness Lab (podcast)
• Cautionary Tales (podcast)

Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, fellow geeks, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And Geeking Out with me today is Julia Morgado. Welcome, Julia.

JULIA: Hi, Adriana. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.

ADRIANA: I'm so excited to have you on as I love having the ladies on the podcast. It's my favorite thing is to bring amazing ladies in tech to the forefront. But also, I've had several fellow Brazilians on the podcast as well.

JULIA: That's amazing. Unfortunately, no Portuguese. But. But yeah, I love, I love collaborating with Brazilians as well.

ADRIANA: It's so much fun. And where are you calling from today?

JULIA: So I'm in New York. In Manhattan. Yeah, New York City.

ADRIANA: And at the time that we're recording this, correct me if I'm wrong, but KCD New York is taking place tomorrow.

JULIA: Yeah. Uh huh. Tonight we have a speaker reception already, and then tomorrow the whole day will have the KCD, which