Keebo, DevOps, and Team Dynamics with Mary Moore-Simmons

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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In this episode, Mary Moore-Simmons, VP of Engineering at Keebo, shares her journey from early tech interests to leadership roles at SendGrid, GitHub, and Keebo. She discusses navigating career transitions, the value of mentorship, and her passion for building innovative developer tools and empowering teams. 00:00 Introduction 07:48 First Memory of a Computer 10:30 Interest in Languages 16:00 Highschool / College 23:00 Engineering in University 27:40 Joining the Work Force 38:05 First...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Arn Labs podcast. Our special guest today is Mary Moore Simmons.
0:24.1	Mary Moore Simmons, I can't believe we finally got you on this show.
0:27.8	Kevin, we have been waiting for this.
0:30.5	And now we've got Mary here.
0:31.8	Hey, Mary.
0:32.8	Hi.
0:33.9	How's it going?
0:35.3	All right.
0:36.1	Mary, give everybody the two-minute spiel, but stay in the present.
0:41.8	Stay in the present.
0:42.7	Don't leak any of your past just yet.
0:45.3	Stay in the present.
0:46.1	Two-minute spiel on what you're doing today.
0:49.4	Yeah.
0:50.1	So I'm the VP of Engineering at Kibo.
0:57.0	Kibo is a series A startup. So we do automated data warehouse optimization.
1:04.0	We use a lot of AI, which is fun, to automatically optimize Snowflake and Databricks warehouses to improve performance and improve cost
1:13.6	without people having to go in and do things manually.
1:17.6	And yeah, I'm our head of engineering there.
1:19.6	We have a small but mighty team.
1:23.6	And yeah, we try to like do cool stuff and have fun all right so this is all new for me because
1:31.1	though i'm a software developer i hate ops i don't deal with ops don't i have people that love
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