145: Taylor Dolezal on the Importance of Community in Tech

<p>In this episode Mike Pfeiffer chats with Taylor Dolezal about the importance of community in tech.</p><p>Taylor specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud, and distributed systems, and currently serves as Head of Ecosystem at the CNCF.</p><p>In this episode we talk about:</p><ul><li>Taylor’s career origin story as a developer, systems engineer, and technology advocate working at places like Disney and Hashicorp.</li><li>Taylor’s current work at the CNCF focsed on serving the Cloud Native end-user community, giving back through research & assets, and running events like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.</li><li>Importance of community in tech, including the challenges of building a community and how to get organizations to recognize the value.</li></ul><p><strong>Taylor Dolezal</strong></p><ul><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/onlydole/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/onlydole/</a></li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/onlydole">https://twitter.com/onlydole</a></li><li>CNCF Bio: <a href="https://www.cncf.io/people/staff/?p=taylor-dolezal">https://www.cncf.io/people/staff/?p=taylor-dolezal</a></li></ul><p><strong>Mike Pfeiffer</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://linktr.ee/mikepfeiffer">https://linktr.ee/mikepfeiffer</a></li></ul>