[TOS] From McDonalds to Google - Kelsey Hightower

[Braught, Grant]

Kelsey Hightower a Principle Engineer at Google gave a (virtual) talk at my institution last evening.  He talks about many issues relating to both open source and broadening participation in computing that I thought might be of interest to this list.

Here is some information about the talk and Mr. Hightower from the publicity for the talk:

As a self taught engineer, Hightower honed his tech skills at the peak of the open source movement, which led to the democratization of software, and created pathways into tech for a new generation of aspiring computer professionals. In this session Hightower will explore his journey into tech and how he became one of the most respected people in cloud computing. Attendees will walk away from this session inspired by their own uniqueness and understand how to leverage technology to help shape the world they want to live in.

Kelsey Hightower is a principal engineer at Google working on Google’s Cloud Platform. He has helped develop and refine many Google Cloud Products including Google’s Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, and Apigees’s API Gateway. Kelsey spends most of his time with executives and developers spanning the global fortune 1000 helping them understand and leverage Google technologies and platforms to grow their businesses. Kelsey is also a huge open source contributor and currently maintains multiple projects that aid software developers and operations professionals in building and shipping cloud native applications. He is also an accomplished author and keynote speaker with a knack for demystifying complex topics and enabling others to succeed. Kelsey is also known for his work in the community and was the inaugural winner of the CNCF Top Ambassador award for his work in helping bootstrap the Kubernetes community.

You can find the recording of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZXr5Bs0T5k&feature=youtu.be

Best,
Grant

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