Dok Talks #131 - How to win friends and influence businesses // Fabian Met

Data on Kubernetes Community

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

In this talk I share my personal experience where when I was working for a client the company had a hard time innovating and did not have a lot of faith in their software/infrastructure engineers.

From a 'distance' I saw a lot of potential where they already had knowledgable engineers but lacked the experience to get started as a company but also as individual engineers.

I created a community at that client, filled with their engineers. It was open to everyone who wanted to learn and we saw everyone's input as equal. Because of that safe space the company now runs almost all their IT in the cloud in a way that made both the engineers and the managers happy. All simply by just being a nice guy!

BIO

Hi my name is Fabian Met and I have been working in the cloud native space for the past couple of years. I love to learn new tech and do so almost every day!

When I learn something new I then always use that knowledge to teach people how tech that might seem difficult at first can actually be quite manageable! Making sure that people do not experience these huge hills they sometimes face trying to learn something new is what I love to do!

My role as Techfluencer means that I will help companies and people alike to see the benefit and required investment to start innovating and using new technology. I don't do this as an authoritative figure, instead I love to talk to people and hear their stories and challenges. Listening to them and talking to them usually leads to insight for both parties and possible solutions that previously might not have seen feasible!

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

Even though you might not be in a position of power, I will show you that no matter who you are, be that a manager, engineer or even the janitor you can help make positive change in your company!