Geeking Out with Adriana Villela

Mar 10 2025 56 ep. 46 mins 7

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The podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between.

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The One Where We Geek Out on Empowering Women with Mariana Carvalho

Mar 10 2025 42 mins

We just celebrated International Women’s Day, which makes it so fitting that Adriana geeks out with Mariana Carvalho, a woman in tech whose mission is to empower other women in tech! Mariana talks about how embracing unexpected opportunities help shape your path, by sharing how she started with a marketing degree, got an MBA, and then wound up with a Master's in Computer Science,

The One Where We Geek Out on Being a Working Mom in Tech with Autumn Nash

Feb 24 2025 48 mins

Adriana geeks out with Autumn Nash about her journey from artist to badass engineer. Autumn and Adriana discuss the struggles and joys of motherhood, and the challenges of being a working mom in tech. They also talk about the importance of representation, and of using privilege to bring light to issues in tech, and to help close those gaps. Autumn also has a new podcast, hosted alo

The One Where We Geek Out on Reinventing Yourself with Whitney Lee

Feb 10 2025 50 mins

It’s never too late to reinvent yourself. And reinvent herself is exactly what Whitney Lee did. You might have never guessed that Whitney has been in tech for less than a decade, because she’s made SUCH a huge impact in our industry. Learn about Whitney’s career pivot from photograph to tech, and how she’s found immense success in the cloud native space thanks to encouragem

The One Where We Geek Out on Mobile App Observability with Austin Emmons of Embrace Mobile

Jan 27 2025 49 mins

Adriana geeks out with Austin Emmons of Embrace Mobile. Austin talks about how Embrace made the shift from closed-source to open source Android and iOS SDKs built on top of OpenTelemetry, and how it led to his involvement in various OpenTelemetry SIGs, including the OTel Swift SIG and the OTel Semantic Conventions SIG. He also discusses how Embrace now uses OpenTelemetry internally

A Quick Program Announcement

Hey fellow geeks! A quick programming note. Starting in january 2025, we'll be dropping new episodes of Geeking Out every two weeks instead of once a week. Our next episode will be out on January 28th. peace out and geek out!

The One Where We Geek Out on Sustainable Applications with Aicha Laafia

Jan 13 2025 46 mins

We are starting out 2025 as Adriana geeks out with guest Aicha Laafia. Aicha may have *only* been working in tech for 3 years, but she has made a huge impact. Aicha talks about her love of Java and developing sustainable applications. She also talks about diving head-first into unknown technologies, and how that has made her a better techie. Finally, Aicha talks very candidly about

The One Where We Geek Out on Security with Michael Levan

Dec 16 2024 49 mins

It's our final episode of 2024, and Adriana geeks out with fellow CNCF Ambassador, Michael Levan. Michael talks about the importance of having purpose, embracing challenges, and how that played a part in him leaving the world of Kubernetes for the world of security. He also shares his thoughts on hardest part about security is not security, and it's not what you might think it is!

The One Where We Geek Out on Ruby x OTel with Kayla Reopelle of New Relic

Dec 09 2024 47 mins

Adriana geeks out with Kayla Reopelle, one of the maintainers of OpenTelemetry Ruby, about what led her down the path from documentary film to software engineering and open source contributions. Kayla shares what it was like to be a first-time open source contributor, some of the lessons that she learned along the way, and how advocating for herself led her to becoming a project ma

The One Where We Geek Out on Java with Ix-chel Ruiz of Karakun

Dec 02 2024 53 mins

Adriana Villela geeks out with Java lover extraordinaire, Ix-chel Ruiz! Ix-chel talks about going back and forth from developer to DevRel, and back to developer. She also talks about her start in the world of Java, and how she is still very much connected with that community as a speaker and conference organizer. Finally, Ix-chell shares how she got started with public speaking and

The One Where We Geek Out on All Things DevRel with Abdel Sghiouar of Google Cloud

Nov 25 2024 50 mins

Adriana geeks out with world traveller, DevRel extraordinaire, and CNCF Ambassador, Abdel Sghiouar. Abdel talks about his podcast, The Kubernetes Podcast, including experimenting with different content formats, recording content at KubeCon, and the origins of SIG Boba (spoiler alert - it originated on his podcast). He also shares how he became a Developer Advocate, with his journey