From Automating Solitaire to Automated Machine Images with Wilken Rivera

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

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5 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Wilken Rivera is a senior software engineer with the Packer team at HashiCorp. In this interview, listeners will get a sense of Wilken’s journey from a dance background to software engineering, his career timeline, and how he earned the privilege to choose where he wanted to work instead of having to take any job he was offered. As the conversation comes to a close, Wilken shares how he learned the Go programming language and what it meant for him to become a part of the community. Connect w...

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Bill Kennedy with the Arden Labs podcast.
0:09.0	And today our special guest is Wilkin Rivera.
0:12.0	Hey, Wilkin, how's it going?
0:14.0	All good, all good, Bill.
0:16.0	I really appreciate you coming on with us for this hour.
0:20.0	I'm really interested to hear your story,
0:23.0	really basically around how you got to where you are. So why don't you give everybody about
0:27.2	two minutes, two or three minutes of a little bit of who you are and where you're working
0:32.1	right now and kind of really where you are right now in terms of work and what you're working on that project.
0:38.8	All right. Sounds good. Sounds good. Yeah. So, hello, everyone. The name's Rupon River, as Bill said.
0:44.3	Where I'm from, so born and raised in New York. I've been in the computer industry or programming
0:50.4	industry for about 10 years now, a little more than that. Started out off with some simple scripts going from PHP, web development, working my way up
0:59.3	to operations, and now where I currently am as a senior software engineer for HashiCorp on the Packer
1:05.3	team. So on a day-to-day, I'm working on some GoCode, figuring out how to get Packer to work and build images
1:12.1	across multiple cloud environments. And when I'm not doing that, you know, being involved as much
1:19.3	as I can in the community, which is really the whole basis for my story here, being part of the
1:24.8	Go community. And when I say being involved, speaking with Bill,
1:29.0	figuring how I can be, you know, how I can be involved with GoBridge, working with fellow
1:34.0	gophers on meetups, and just trying to figure out how to pay it forward from the lessons that I've
1:38.7	learned sort of growing up. And yeah. All right. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. And I want to get back to maybe near the end of this more about Packer and what you're doing there. But what I love to learn and hear about is kind of like the origin story. So you've been a professional developer for the last 10 years. But what is your kind of first memory that pops in your head
2:04.9	about when you were working on a computer? First memory working on a computer. So my brother,
2:11.7	it's, I was, I was a nine. We had just moved back from Connecticut and my brother actually
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