Always Be Working Towards Your Goals with Bryan Liles

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

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5 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Bryan Liles is a Principal Engineer at VMware where he is working on the Telco & Edge Cloud BU team building telecom software that runs on Kubernetes. We examine Bryan’s unique path to success, which he credits to being goal focused and knowing his worth, among other things. He talks candidly about how his encounters with racism and poor leadership led to his frequent job hopping. This leads Bill to re-evaluate some of the criteria he uses when looking at a resume. Connect wi...

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0:00.0	Hi, and this is Bill Kennedy with the Arden Labs podcast.
0:08.9	And today, our special guest is Brian Liles.
0:12.5	Hey, Brian.
0:13.5	Hey, Bill.
0:14.3	Hey, community.
0:15.1	How are you all doing?
0:16.3	Hopefully everybody's doing great.
0:18.3	I know I am.
0:19.2	I am so excited that you're talking with us today. You're somebody who, I guess I think I would, maybe we met about five years ago. And you're somebody who I've always thought was like maybe the most humble, caring human being, but I'm going to also say engineer, I think,
0:40.4	that I've met in this community.
0:42.7	So I've always looked up to you, and I'm really excited to get your story today.
0:47.2	Oh, well, thank you.
0:49.8	It's on purpose, and I still think I have work to do, but I'm glad someone, like, someone gets value out of this.
0:57.9	Okay. So what I'd like all the guests to do is kind of take two minutes to say where you are today, what you're doing, what you're focusing on.
1:08.1	And then we're going to kind of talk about your story, about how you got here.
1:13.3	Okay.
1:13.9	Well, let's start out with today.
1:15.9	It's January of 2021, and I am a principal engineer in the Telco and Edge BU at VMware.
1:27.0	And what does that mean?
1:28.4	Well, I am a VP-level individual contributor,
1:32.2	and I am the architect for our Telco platform.
1:36.9	And really what that means is with the advent of 5G,
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