Karoline Klever talks with Dave Rael about careers, family, open source, perspectives, and meaningful open source work that saves lives
Karoline is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, focusing on application development in Azure and DevOps. She is passionate about how organizations can improve their software development processes through automation and shorter feedback loops, and she is fascinated by how developers work, the tools they use and why they make the choices they do. She continuously challenges herself and shares her knowledge by blogging, speaking at user groups and conferences and contributing to non-profit open source projects.
Chapters:
2:16 - Dave introduces the show and Karoline Klever5:13 - Karoline, the conference speaker8:11 - Karoline's positions at Microsoft17:29 - Karoline on being a woman in software development19:49 - Karoline's intense excitement and involvement with an open source project for the benefit of the Red Cross28:54 - Karoline on architecture30:57 - Karoline's story of failure - a workshop without attendees35:10 - Karoline's success story - being involved with open source that saves lives36:55 - Karoline's book recommendation39:04 - Karoline's productivity and accepting limitations41:25 - Karoline's top 3 tips for delivering more value43:42 - Keeping up with Karoline
Resources:
Linda Rising on Developer On Fire
Kevin O'Shaughnessy on Developer On Fire
Sandi Metz on Developer On Fire
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel - Deborah Hopkinson
John Snow
Cholera
Red Cross: Community Based Surveillance (CBS)
International Federation of Red Cross on GitHub
Karoline's Blog Post about a Workshop Without attendees
Karoline's book recommendation:
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim
Karoline's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
Do what drives your passion
Get enough time to upscale yourself
Get comfortable being uncomfortable