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Kelsey Hightower

πŸ‘€ Speaker
2824 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Hey, I'm Kelsey.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I work on these things, not these things.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

These things are important to Google.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

So here's exactly what I did.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

But more importantly, here's the people I brought along.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Here's the teams I've impacted.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And here's the results of this.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

So I did this project and here are the results of that.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And I'm talking in this way, like I'm ignoring the process.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I don't really care about the template.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And as someone who at that point in time was on some of the promotion communities where we're looking at the promotion packets and making a decision as a team, I decided to write my packet for those people so that when they got it, because look, if you're having to do a read a lot of these, it's hard.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

You're like, oh man, they're all so dry.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Everyone's being very safe.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

Everyone's only telling me what I want to hear.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I don't even know the person from after reading this whole packet.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I said, I'm not going to do that.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I want them to see me as if I was in the room advocating for myself.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

And I remember getting feedback on that packet like, Kelsey, this is like, come on, bro.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

This is, you know, things I was taking it seriously.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

I wasn't making a mockery of it.