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The Women in Tech Show: A Technical Podcast — Software How-To
The Women in Tech Show: A Technical Podcast

A podcast about what we work on, not what it feels like to be a woman in tech.
Hosted by Edaena Salinas, Software Engineer at Microsoft.
Website: wit.fm

Latest Episodes:

ara-pulido — Server Applications with Ara Pulido Jan 23, 2018
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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/82-ara-pulido.mp3

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As applications continue to move to the cloud, it is important to have systems that are easy to use and accessible to more people. This is what Bitnami is doing. Bitnami simplifies the process by managing a catalog of ready-to-run server applications, among other things. Ara Pulido, Engineering Manager at Bitnami, explains what ready-to-run applications in the server are and what it takes to design a product that’s easy to use when working on the cloud. We also talked about Kubernetes, and how Bitnami simplifies deployments to clusters with KubeApps, their latest open source project.

Ara Pulido, Engineering Manager at Bitnami

@arapulido
@bitnami
@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Bitnami

KubeApps

Developers: Makers of Marvels with Abby Kearns Jan 16, 2018

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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/81-abby-kearns.mp3

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Developers are the makers of marvels today. They are the ones that helped make technology and invaluable tool. Abby Kearns Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation explained how they enable developers to be successful, leverage open source tools and be a part of a community. We talked about examples of products that are possible because of open source, collaboration, and the availability of technology.

Abby Kearns, Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation

@ab415
@cloudfoundry
@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Cloud Foundry Foundation

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dianne-marsh — Engineering at Netflix with Dianne Marsh Jan 09, 2018
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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/80-dianne-marsh.mp3

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The company’s culture has an important role in how engineers work. The success of Netflix is in part because of its culture. For example, they give engineers freedom and by doing so, interesting engineering systems have emerged. Dianne Marsh, Director of Engineering at Netflix explained some of the ways in which the culture impacts how products are developed. We talked about developer velocity and how Spinnaker, a multi-cloud continuous delivery platform was built. Dianne also explained the aspect from the Netflix culture that she finds the most useful when running an engineering organization.

This episode was recorded at CloudNativeCon and KubeCon in Austin Texas.

Dianne Marsh, Director of Engineering at Netflix

@dmarsh
@spinnakerio
@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Netflix Culture

Spinnaker

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cut — Programming Interviews Dec 19, 2017
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This will be the last episode of the year. I’ll be back in January with some great episodes that I recorded at KubeCon in Austin Texas. This was a great year, I joined Microsoft Research, interviewed many people from the tech industry and got a chance to go to the Grace Hopper Conference. This is the biggest gathering of women in technology. This conference has talks from different tracks, ranging from technical to career development. There is also a big career fair, and attendees can be interviewed for internships and full time jobs.

When I was there I saw some attendees looked stressed and worried because of the job interviews. I overheard their concerns and talked with them and gave them some advice for technical job interviews, which is what this episode is about.

Edaena Salinas, Software Engineer II at Microsoft

@edaenas
@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Big O Notation

How to pass a programming interview

Hacking a Google Interview – MIT

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bear-douglas — Developer Advocacy with Bear Douglas Dec 12, 2017
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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/78-bear-douglas.mp3

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Developer communities play an important role in product development. We learn from each other in developer communities and we help shape the development of the product. Bear Douglas, Developer Advocacy Lead at Slack, explains what a developer advocate is. We talked about her experience as a developer advocate at Facebook, Twitter and Slack. Bear explained how to build and nurture a developer community.

I met Bear at DevRel Summit, a professional development day for industry professionals working with developer communities. Bear was the opening keynote at this event. I highly recommend it.

Bear Douglas, Developer Advocacy Lead at Slack

@beardigsit
@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Bear Douglas

DevRel Summit

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tarah-wheeler — Cybersecurity with Tarah Wheeler Dec 05, 2017
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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/77-tarah-wheeler.mp3

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In 2017, sensitive information from 140 million consumers in the United States was stolen as part of the Equifax data breach. We see this happen in different companies for example Yahoo and most recently Uber. Tarah Wheeler, Cybersecurity fellow at New America explains what the Equifax breach was, its impact, and why the breach wasn’t handled correctly. Tarah explained how to set up an effective incident response and incident detection system. We also talked about incident response teams and what they’re in charge of.

Tarah is the author of “Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories”.

Tarah Wheeler, Cybersecurity fellow at New America

@tarah
@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Tarah Wheeler

Equifax repeatedly tweeted the wrong URL for its website about the data breach

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michelle-noorali — Tech Conferences: KubeCon with Michelle Noorali Nov 28, 2017
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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/76-michelle-noorali.mp3

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Tech conferences are a place where we can learn about the industry trends and projects that people at other companies are working on. We can also go there to speak about our own experiences. In this episode Michelle Noorali, explains how tech conferences are structured and gives tips on talk submissions. We talked about KubeCon, the largest Kubernetes conference in the world. Michelle is co-chair of this conference and she explained the process of creating an interesting agenda and how talk submissions are evaluated. Michelle is also a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft.

Michelle Noorali, Co-Chair of KubeCon, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

@michellenoorali

@kubernetesio

@kubeconio

@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

KubeCon

Kubernetes

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AI in Voice Forensics with Rita Singh Nov 21, 2017
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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/75-rita-singh.mp3

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In the United States, when people have a life threatening emergency, they can make a call and get immediate help from the authorities. On the other hand, people can make prank emergency calls and trigger an emergency response. This costs law enforcement billions of dollars each year. Because of these prank calls, some people that were in a real emergency did not get the resources on time and died. Rita Singh, Research Faculty at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, works on profiling humans from their voice. This work is part of voice forensics driven by artificial intelligence.

Rita explains the information that is contained in a person’s voice, and how the physical environment can be derived. Her work resulted in successfully identifying a person that was making frequent prank emergency calls.

Rita Singh, Research Faculty at the School of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University

@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Rita Singh

Voice Forensics to help Coast Guard nab hoax callers

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erika-ehrli — Product Demos with Erika Ehrli Nov 16, 2017
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https://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/74-erika-ehrli-2.mp3

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Product demos are the theater of our industry. They engage and inspire the audience, and showcase the capabilities of a product. Erika Ehrli Director of Product Marketing at Microsoft gives an overview of how high profile keynote demos are created. We talked about story telling and the technical components of a demo. Erika also explained how a demo team is structured, what they work on, and the relation between product teams.

Erika Ehrli, Director of Product Marketing at Microsoft

@erikaehrli1

@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Microsoft Connect()

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aline-lerner — Bias-Free Hiring with Aline Lerner Nov 07, 2017
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http://media.blubrry.com/thewomenintechshow/wintshow.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/73-aline-lerner.mp3

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Interviews are an essential component to get a job at a tech company. However they can also affect diversity and inclusion efforts from a company due to the biases preconceptions that the people involved have. Aline Lerner, CEO of interviewing.io is making bias-free hiring a reality. Aline explained how bias in hiring can be tackled using technology. We also talked about why resumes are not a great hiring tool, and what she has learned from studying thousands of interviews.

Aline Lerner, CEO of interviewing.io

@alinelernerllc

@interviewingio

@techwomenshow

Show Notes:

Resumes suck. Here’s the data. – Aline Lerner

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data – Aline Lerner

interviewing.io

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