Kelsey Hightower
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I went on a lunch break.
Yes, I met Pier Juan.
He was a good friend of mine named Joe Rodriguez.
He's the first person that made me a software developer.
So I showed him some ideas I had on like modernizing our virtualization, optimizing our Pixie Boot process.
And he was like, man, you have a lot of good ideas.
So in the interview, he's like, show me what you built.
I'm so excited.
I'm still that entrepreneur thinking.
And I got the job.
So now I'm a software engineer working on this automation stack.
And I remember seeing jobs that I used to be afraid of five years ago.
The same jobs that made me want to just go get an A-plus certification and open a computer store instead of even trying.
And so I looked at those job descriptions again.
And it was like, you need Linux.
I was like, I got that.
Even at that job, I got Red Hat certified, right?
So I was like,
I got all the qualifications now.
And I remember the job.