![]() ![]() So this learning experience of really starting from zero is something fortunate I wasn’t doing for the first time. I spent the first two years living with my mother-in-law, and she doesn’t know English, so and I didn’t know Spanish. And on top of, a lot of I relate to is that when I arrived in Egypt in 2009, I really didn’t know a lot of Arabic and when I arrived in in Spain in 2011, I really didn’t know a lot of Spanish. Because of that kind of background and then going into a different kind of background, being in different space has been somewhat comfortable for me. I studied Arabic there, that’s where I met my wife my partner, she’s from Spain, we met there. Then, I got my master’s degree in Near Middle Eastern Studies, because I lived in Egypt. And so I’m very accustomed to being an outsider and perhaps being in different spaces, the constancy of people say, “Well, why are you going to study that?” or “How can you apply that?” Well, there are a million different ways you can apply that, and we’ll probably see a couple more along the way. I went to the University of California at Santa Barbara, and I majored in religious studies, which is not a common thing to study at all. To backtrack a little bit, too and to give even further background about myself see the contrast, but also understand why maybe it wasn’t so strange for me to get involved in this space- taking into consideration the very point you just mentioned that it’s quite niche, is my academic background. Can we talk a little bit some of the ebbs and flows of that journey? There’s lots of ways to contribute- and Bart is an excellent example of that.īart Farrell 03:21 That’s a really good point. You went from a light technical background straight to the deep end, which is very inspirational. Now, there’s been a lot of advancements, but Bart dove into it. The platform wasn’t designed for persistence. And that’s actually very hard since the platform came out six years ago- data has been a weak point. It’s becoming more mainstream, but an area that’s still on the bleeding edge is persistence or data. I’ll try to frame it up for some of the listeners- Kubernetes might be the shiny penny. Bart is in what I would call a crypto community: Data on Kubernetes. But Bart not only went from a non-technical background into helping organize technology communities. So there’s no one road into technology- there’s no one road in, and no one road out. What really amazes me about Bart’s story is that Bart took two leaps of faith back-to-back. He got it he got it kicked off, a few months later, because of some personal commitments, he contacted me saying, “Hey, would you be interested in taking over?” And I didn’t have to think too hard about it- just kind of jumped right in. Last year, a good friend of mine, Demetrios Brinkmann-shout out Demetrios- who had previously started is still running the ML Ops community was invited to start the Data on Kubernetes community last year in July. still doing talent management as a freelancer in a digital marketing agency and a random assortment of other things. And then about two and a half years ago, I started working on my own as a freelancer and being involved in different projects related to audio visual production. ![]() I worked there for three years doing talent management, organizing events, starting communities about a lot of different things. Since then, I have been much, much closer to tech. ![]() I got recruited by a British software development company that had a development center here in Bilbao, which is in the Basque Country in the north of Spain. I come to tech from the human side, and I got into tech five years ago. I basically got into tech around five years ago I always have to explain this full disclosure: I am not a programmer I’m not a DevOps I’m not a systems administrator, DevSecOps, whatever you want. But anyways, I’m from Northern California originally, but I’ve been living in Spain for the last nine years. As you said, my name is Bart which for starters is already a little bit unique, not very common. Bart, for those of the listeners who don’t know you, why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself?īart Farrell 00:22 Very great to be here, thanks so much for having me. Bart actually runs the Data on Kubernetes Community. I’m very excited today to be joined by Bart Farrell. Ravi Lachhman 00:06 Hi, everybody! Welcome back to another episode of ShipTalk podcast. ![]()
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