Cloud Culture & Community: Bart Farrell’s Journey from Beats to Cloud Native🎙️

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In this episode of Code to Cloud, we sit down with the ever-energetic Bart Farrell—CNCF Ambassador, community builder, and creative technologist with a passion for human connection in cloud-native spaces.

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We unpack Bart’s fascinating origin story, from his early career in education and media to leading community efforts that power some of the cloud-native ecosystem’s most vibrant conversations. He shares what community leadership reallylooks like, the power of storytelling in tech, and why culture might be the most underrated pillar of tech.

We also dive into:

• How to find your voice in open-source

• The biggest opportunities and challenges in cloud-native right now

• Bart’s top three skills every technologist should master before 2025

• A quick-fire round you don’t want to miss 🔥

Whether you’re a platform engineer, advocate, or just cloud-curious—this episode will inspire you to lean into creativity, collaboration, and curiosity.

Ship it. Scale it. 🎧