Simon Kelada-Polupanov

Yeah.

Hi, Sam.

Thanks for hosting me.

Good to be here.

So, yeah, a little bit about me.

So I come from the system administrator DevOps world.

Originally, that's how I got into the tech space.

When I was kind of coming up, the most exciting things was Linux.

So I started getting into that, installed Distro.

on an old computer that I found in the garage and start to tinkering with that.

And that actually got me into system administration, being able to configure server the way I wanted to and ended up getting a job actually in that field as well.

So I started as a junior system administrator and then a couple of years later, DevOps started coming around.

So tech started

companies got more prolific.

I think people started to realize that developers need to work closer with operations.

So that's obviously where the DevOps comes from.

And all the tools that came from that as well became quite exciting.

So things like Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, you know, like all the modern tools that we know and love now.

So yeah, that whole wave into DevOps I found really exciting.

And cloud, of course, AWS came around and everyone