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.

Quote

“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 -

Timestamps:

• 0:18 Speaker Introduction
• 1:35 Returning to in person conferences
• 4:59 Friendships during the pandemic
• 6:31 What does Matt’s average day looks like?
• 11:40 Conferences: virtual only vs in person
• 20:28 Pulumi approach to IaC
• 24:48 What should developers learn next?
• 27:33 Future of Tech
• 29:52 Favourite Sci-fi Tech and changes
• 31:54 Diversity and inclusion
• 37:26 How to lift others up
• 39:09 Community
• 42:16 Episode Wrap up

Learn more about the DevOps Days community at https://devopsdays.org/.

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• https://speaking.mattstratton.com/
• https://twitter.com/mattstratton
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstratton/
• https://github.com/mattstratton
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