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Hi, I'm Bill Kennedy with the On Labs podcast, and today our special guest is Kelsey Hightower.

Hey, Kelsey, how's it going?

Hey, how you doing?

Where are you coming to us from today?

You're still in Seattle, right?

Close.

I'm about two hours south of Seattle right over the border of Portland, Oregon. Nice, nice. Okay. As you know, this is a podcast that's going to be all about you.

And the idea of hearing your kind of your journey, your story, with the idea also that others are probably

some people are on the same path and it's kind of really nice to hear how others kind of moved

through their careers and through life. But before we start that conversation, can you give

everybody like the two-minute rundown about kind of where you are today and what you're doing today?

Yeah, so I'm a principal engineer over at Google Cloud where I've been about six years now.

So I primarily work in, you know, what they call GCP. My specialties right now are like serverless.

So this is going to be things like Cloud Run, you know, Cloud Functions, and I spent a lot of my time in the Kubernetes space.

So that whole containerization movement.

And I also work with a lot of our customers that are trying to understand SRE and modern change management techniques.

And of course, you know, the Go programming language is

still my favorite tool of choice when integrating with all of those things.

Are you doing a lot of programming today? Are you able to do that? Yeah, most of my stuff is

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