#BITTechTalk ep. 53 w/ Kelsey Hightower

#BITTechTalk by Blacks In Technology

This episode we welcome our guest Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey is the former Director of Operations at PuppetLabs and is now the Director of Engineering at Monsoon Commerce. Kelsey manages a team of 14 across QA, Software Developement, UX and Tech Docs. He's curerntly involved in the Go programming language and is a contributor to the Go project itself along with many open source projects written in Go.
Current projects include:
Packer: Where he is a core committer and has developed a number of plugins and even received a nice shout out by Google here: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/12/using-google-compute-engine-with-open-source-software.html
Kelsey also heads up a Go Hands on Workshops as described here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-go-workshop-tickets-10903473583.
Kelsey is the Co-editor of the golang weekly news letter: http://www.golangweekly.com/archive/
Public Speaking:
Kelsey has given many tech talks at meetups and IT conferences (PuppetConfs, Ansible Fest, etc). My next talk will be at GopherCon, the first Go conference including many top names in the industryhttp://www.gophercon.com/
Past talks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TK-gUNFHk (External Data: Hiera, ENC's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlYEJ-fpfU (Streamlining Workflows With Puppet Faces)
Ansible Fest 2014 (Ansible Packer Provisioner)
Follow Kelsey on Twitter: @kelseyhightower
or email Kelsey: kelseyhightower[at]gmai.com