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The Virtual Coffee Podcast

This week Bekah and Dan sat down with Carmen Kohole, a DevOps Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, to chat about the benefits of collaboration and the valuable opportunities you can gain just by asking for help. We also discussed the benefits of fostering strong relationships in the tech industry, and what it means to be a DevOps engineer.

About Carmen
DevOps Engineer based in Portland, Oregon. Big fan of house plants, hiking, hats and cats. Here to help build stuff, break stuff, learn stuff and make friends.

• @carmenkolohe on GitHub
• @carmenkolohe on Twitter

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• Bekah: dev.to/bekahhw, Twitter: https://twitter.com/bekahhw, Instagram: bekahhw
• Dan: dtott.com, Twitter: @danieltott

Luvut

1. Welcome to VC and Carmen (00:00:00)

2. Todays Check in Question (00:02:43)

3. Carmens Journey Into Tech (00:07:30)

4. What is a DevOps Engineer? (00:16:52)

5. Building Relationships as an Introvert (00:19:49)

6. Finding a Mentor (00:25:57)

7. DevOps Journey (00:31:54)

8. Finding Balance (00:32:39)

9. What does AWS certification look like? (00:34:36)

10. Finding Time for Community (00:36:34)

11. Taking Inventory (00:43:21)

12. Interviewing Introverted (00:44:34)