John Doak is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft and also the author of the book “Go for DevOps”. In this episode he takes us through his journey from martial arts and cinematography in high school and college to becoming a published author and master at networking.
00:00 Introduction
03:08 What is John Doing today
05:37 Writing “Go for DevOps”
14:00 Graduating high school
16:15 First memory of a computer
23:00 High school interests
28:40 Post high school thoughts
32:50 Triple majoring in college
36:00 Battling migraines through university / odd jobs
46:13 Moving to San Francisco
51:08 What happens after 5 years
57:52 Looking into Google
1:04:10 How long were you at Google?
1:06:40 Networking Skills
1:13:04 What do you think about Tailscale?
1:14:21 Leaving Google
1:20:10 Would you write another book?
1:23:29 Current interests in Tech?
1:28:40 Contact Info
Connect with John:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnsiilver?lang=en
Email: jdoak@microsoft.com
Github: https://github.com/johnsiilver
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Tailscale: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale
Find Johns Book Here: https://www.amazon.com/Go-DevOps-language-Kubernetes-Terraform/dp/1801818894
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