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Ell Marquez: It's okay to be new. [Linux] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Linux and Security Advocate at Intezer Ell Marquez shares her journey from the family ranch to security. Needing a life change due to a bunch of circumstances that had occurred that left her almost homeless, Ell found out about a six week Linux boot camp that took her down the path toward technology. She fell in love with security at at BSides Conference and hasn't looked back. Ell says she recently started a campaign called "it's okay to be new" noting that no matter how long you've been in the industry, you need to be new because technology changes so quickly. She concludes by offering one final piece of advice to everybody is just "be unapologetically yourself." We thank Ell for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. Hi, my name is El Marquez, and I'm the Linux insecurity advocate at Intezer.

1:17.7

So it's really funny. I always thought that, you know, I was either going to go into the church or I was going to grow up and, you know, take over the family farm. I really felt like I had a very

1:23.4

narrow path growing up. My parents had a little ranch in a small town in Texas, and they had actually migrated

1:32.1

there from their family farm in Mexico.

1:34.8

So I grew up, you know, running the fields.

1:37.2

I had the dream of every little kid out there.

1:39.8

I had a pony.

1:41.4

Really all we did was live together as a family.

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I have a bit of a different start than most people. I really just needed a life change due to

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a bunch of circumstances that had occurred that left me almost homeless.

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And I found out about a program that was teaching Linux.

2:05.6

It was a six-week Linux boot camp.

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