A Champion of Chaos and Inclusion with Ana Margarita Medina

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Bill Kennedy

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Ana Margarita Medina is a Senior Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. You may know her from one of her many conference talks or maybe just from Twitter! In this episode, Ana shares her journey into tech and why it is OK to take a nonlinear path to the job of your dreams. From running a freelance company at the age of 15 to dropping out of college to enter the workforce, Ana’s experiences have contributed to her vast knowledge and passion for her industry. Connect with Ana: www.anammedina.com Twi...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Bill Kennedy and welcome to the Yard Labs podcast. Today, we have a special guest named
0:10.8	Anna Margarita. Hey, Anna. Hey, Bill. Very excited to be on this podcast today. Thank you once again for
0:17.7	having me. Thank you for agreeing to talk to us for the next hour. This
0:23.2	podcast is about not just tech. It's really about getting to know people that you're seeing every
0:29.8	day, whether it's on Twitter, whether it's at conferences. I know you do a lot of conference talks.
0:35.5	And so we don't really know each other. It's why I'm really excited because I follow you because you're doing a lot of conference talks. And so we don't really know each other.
0:38.2	So I'm really excited because I follow you because you're doing a lot of exciting things.
0:42.9	Also because I learned that you came from Miami and there's just so few of us from Miami
0:48.7	working in the tech that we work in.
0:50.8	So I'm super excited to talk to you about that and some other things. But
0:55.9	just to get started, give everybody your two-minute kind of elevator pitch on kind of what you're
1:05.0	doing today in tech, right? Like where you are right now. So right now, I am a senior chaos engineer at Gremlin.
1:14.7	Gremlin is a startup that is currently based out of San Francisco, California.
1:19.8	We help companies avoid downtime by proactively injecting failure into their systems.
1:25.6	We are the category leaders in a space in the DevOps
1:29.0	community called Chaos Engineering. Chaos engineering is thoughtful planned exercises in order for
1:35.8	you to build more resilient systems. So it's like a really niche space. I'm super honored to be here
1:41.6	and it's a lot of learning. I'm constantly building demos for our customers. I'm getting ready to be here. And it's a lot of learning. I'm constantly building demos for our customers.
1:46.7	I'm getting ready to create content for like our tutorials and things like that.
1:51.2	And I also just spend a lot of time researching what's going on in the cloud native space
1:55.7	and the open source communities that are other tools that I know that the industry is going to start using.
2:01.6	So I start taking deep dives into them in order to understand how everything's working.
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